I think I might have to try this with my Blaster....I can remember doing a lot of street sweeping in the beginning! I don't think the devs like us doing it. We were skipping all their precious content lol.
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Curiosity's getting the better of me. I can see how you could sloooooowly get by with Jump Kick, Air Superiority, and Flurry - but how did you get from 1 to 6? Were you teamed...?
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Originally Posted by Kiken
I'm currently doing something similar, although I'm only up to level 18. This is with a character that only uses Pool powers, so being able to pick and choose the spawns to tackle outside of a mission makes things a little smoother.
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"Hard pressed on my right. My centre is yielding. Impossible to manoeuvre. Situation excellent. I am attacking." - General Ferdinand Foch
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15. I'm never in any hurry and have a ton of alts and play them all in a whimlike fashion. Plus shortly after I made him I had six months off with a broken computer. |
Itomic wants numbers: I also have an MA-only toon named Mission Architect, but Virtual Lad's origin is way more awesome. How far along on the path is he? |
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Heh, while all true, I think they only really cared when almost NO ONE was doing the content, hence the changes back in the day to mission bonuses and debt. But then, that was back in the days of Jack and things are a touch different now. |
anvil_NA goes way back to old complaints: I think I might have to try this with my Blaster....I can remember doing a lot of street sweeping in the beginning! I don't think the devs like us doing it. We were skipping all their precious content lol. |
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Maybe he includes Vet powers? I can't imagine trying to Brawl everything. |
Super_Ready notes early stuff: Curiosity's getting the better of me. I can see how you could sloooooowly get by with Jump Kick, Air Superiority, and Flurry - but how did you get from 1 to 6? Were you teamed...? |
Dec out.
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Solitary spent a lot of time in both RWZ and Shard zones (the rim of the Chantry was particularly fun), but there are also a lot of mid-40s Nemesis groups on the docks & in the borough in PI, totally ripe for AoE goodness.
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Originally Posted by Kelenar
I got pretty close with my DB/Fire Scrapper, who's sitting at about level 44 from 90% street-sweeping. Before the new mission difficulty settings, it was just the only way to find spawns big enough to justify all those AoEs she packs. Kind of hit a brick wall when I outlevelled all of the non-RWZ/Shard hazard zones, since /Fire isn't fond of the enemies in either zone.
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Originally Posted by Super_Ready
Curiosity's getting the better of me. I can see how you could sloooooowly get by with Jump Kick, Air Superiority, and Flurry - but how did you get from 1 to 6? Were you teamed...?
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Originally Posted by Decorum
Maybe he includes Vet powers? I can't imagine trying to Brawl everything.
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The new email system makes it easy for me to send any Salvage he needs from one of my far too many alts. But yeah, 1-6 was the worst part.
However, it turned out that Smith was not a time-travelling Terminator
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That's just awesome. Well done, sir!
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Originally Posted by Decorum
Yup, that's my boy! Him and his robot babysitter H.A.R.O.L.D.!
  "Donnie Gallager was THRILLED when Dr. Aeon opened Architect Entertainment! Accompanied, at the insistence of his mother, by his "babysitting" robot, H.A.R.O.L.D. (Human Adolescent Restriction Of Liberties Device), every day after school he dons the special virtual reality equipment he just got for his 12th birthday and pretends to live the life of a super-hero!" |
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This and grats on your accomplishement. I still street hunt from time to time because it's so much fun.
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Originally Posted by Constant_Motion
I remember street sweeping back before we had things like mission completion bonuses, patrol xp, ed, agro caps, aoe caps and the purple patch. Used to be the most efficient way to lvl
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Originally Posted by Megajoule
We're being invaded. Again. This time, instead of aliens, zombies, or eyeballs with teeth, it's the marching band.
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Yeah, that's how I got from 40-44.
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Originally Posted by Itomic
Solitary spent a lot of time in both RWZ and Shard zones (the rim of the Chantry was particularly fun), but there are also a lot of mid-40s Nemesis groups on the docks & in the borough in PI, totally ripe for AoE goodness.
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Having Vengeance and Fallout slotted for recharge means never having to say you're sorry.
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Bawwwww, CHEATSES. That does it - you've inspired me to do this myself, and use ONLY pool powers. No temps, no vets, not even inherents - that's right, no [Brawl]...! Guess I'll have to owe someone a favour for that level 6...
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Originally Posted by Kiken
I am cheating slightly by making liberal use of the Temp powers that drop so frequently these days
The new email system makes it easy for me to send any Salvage he needs from one of my far too many alts. But yeah, 1-6 was the worst part. |
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Originally Posted by Super_Ready
4not even inherents - that's right, no [Brawl]...!
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However, it turned out that Smith was not a time-travelling Terminator
Back before I16 and the changes to the mission difficulty settings, most of my toons would almost exclusively solo in hazard zones. One of the main reasons I didnt have a lvl 50 vill is the absolute lack of hazard zones redside.
I am really looking forward to GR and being able to do all my hazard zone runs with a brute.
I found early on that the mission complete xp bonus was easily surpassed by the xp of a couple hazard zone spawns, with no travel time whatsoever.
Glad you had fun with it
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Back with my main, when I didn't understand the missions structure of the game so much, I did a LOT of street sweeping. After a while it got to be very difficult to find stuff of the appropriate level and a suitable challenge. Leveling became somewhat painful after a while. I finally did switch over to teaming in my late 40's though.
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Originally Posted by Itomic
Last night Solitary, my fire/wp scrapper on Liberty, hit level 50 by only solo street hunting.
He has never been on a team, talked to a contact (other than trainers and stores), or been on a mission. He simply works alone protecting the streets. The process was much more entertaining and rewarding than I thought it would be. Are there any others who have done something similar? |
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I got pretty close with my DB/Fire Scrapper, who's sitting at about level 44 from 90% street-sweeping. Before the new mission difficulty settings, it was just the only way to find spawns big enough to justify all those AoEs she packs. Kind of hit a brick wall when I outlevelled all of the non-RWZ/Shard hazard zones, since /Fire isn't fond of the enemies in either zone.
Having Vengeance and Fallout slotted for recharge means never having to say you're sorry.