A New Way to Play!

So while creating new characters is always fun for me, playing through the levels and leveling up has become quite monotonous. So while on my newest toy (Ice/Mental Blaster) I realized something. You still can earn XP while exemped, and you have access to more powers while zemped. This realization sparked an idea that has added alot more fun to the game for me.

Once I leveled to 25 (which is fairly easy) I started using Ouroborus solely. This gave me the power to pick exactly what Arch I wanted to play and I don't have to go through the "stupid" missions to get to the actual arch. You can use the O-portal to trasnport directly to the contact instead of slogging across multiple zones if you can't call, and you earn a ton of merits.

So I just wanted to share this idea with others so that if they are looking for a way to break routine don't forget about Ouroborus, this is where the xp while zemped has really shined for me, and hopefully it will work for others as well

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Originally Posted by Arcanaville Sure, the devs are supposed to listen to their customers, mister business 101 out there. And if I decide to start suggesting that the devs change the game from being about superheroes and supervillains to being about clowns that is my right as well, and technically Paragon Studios is supposed to pay attention to me. But I hope strongly that they assume a meth-head somehow managed to hack into my forum account and make paper airplanes out of my posts, because I hope they recognize stupid when they see it. I assume they will recognize futile just as accurately.

Yep, this was a new feature added in Issue 16. It's been fantastic for teaming with people who are lower level than my character when I still want to get experience.

In addition to that, you may not have noticed, but you get to keep all your powers up to five levels over your current exemplared level.

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Originally Posted by Nethergoat it's NEVER too late to pad your /ignore list!

Also the Oroboros flashback arcs can be run task force style. Just need to get a group of players together who are willing to run through the whole arc story. We did this on Proctecor with the Freak-Olympics arc, we were all dressed as Saturday morning cartoon characters. The game is so much fun seeing Papa Smurf pound on a Freak Tank.

Actually, since one of my characters has the backstory of being an Ouroboros Mender, I ran her through just enough arcs to get her access to Entrusted with the Secret (courtesy of Doc Delilah's arc). The bulk of her lvl 25+ activity will then be via Flashback. (Since I FULLY intend to get all of the Ouro badges on her, in case they ever unlock/fix the Chronomaster Accolade.)

Michelle
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Samuraiko/Dark_Respite

Being able to get exp while exemping was a big game changer for me. I love, love, love the developers for SSK!

More opportunities to play with friends while advancing my characters is always a good thing.

Personally, while I enjoy Ouro for what it offers to the game, I'd never consider levelling up on it. To me, it just feels soulless to pick only the specific missions that show up in there, but skip everything else. It's a novel idea, to be sure, and I'm sure it'll be to many people's tastes, but I prefer to do it the old way.

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Originally Posted by Arcanaville Samuel_Tow is the only poster that makes me want to punch him in the head more often when I'm agreeing with him than when I'm disagreeing with him.

Hmmm, might have to give this a try. I've been looking into alternate levelling routes lately, since I've done all the sub-40 villain stuff a zillion times and I can't bring myself to look at the sub-40 hero normal zone contacts (I can only do Faultline->Striga->Croatoa->RWZ so many times). I've got a brute I'm trying to level solely on AE story arcs.

I have been using the pillar of ice and fire in my base to do just that. I have found it a lovely way to experience just the story arcs on my latest brute. So far I have completed everything from the first two brackets of the mission list and am really enjoying it!