So, who uses Levelling Pact?

I have a buddy who plays casually (very). However its lots of fun teaming when
he is on. Is a levelling pact worth it? I'd say the online time difference between us
is almost 5-1. I have the feeling it will feel like a bit of a grind if I play the toon too much.

It can be a bit grindy when your pact buddy is not around if you are soloing. Teaming is not too bad though. I pacted with a buddy who plays about as much as I do but not always at the same time and I gotta say, its real cool to log in and find out you leveled. It might be worth breaking the pact in the 40s as that is where it really seemed extra grindy but 1-40 wasn't too bad.

I haven't used it, but I know a fair number of people who have used it. Very few if any of them have soloed something that was "leading" a pact. Most ran team content on one of the characters and used it to bring the other to 50.

I would use level pacts if my GF's computer would run the game faster than 4fps...

I recently rolled an empath, and when Beloved Spouse said the costume was cool, we decided to duo, so now my empath is level-pacted with a sonic/sonic defender. Whereupon Beloved Spouse got caught up in an awesome spy novel, and I went to hover around dropping fortitude on someone who was farming Rikti. So I think I only made level 16 or so.

I have a couple of characters that I set up a levelling pact with my sister. She very rarely plays the game, basically whenever I am around and talk her into it. So my first thought is it would be helpful to level up some characters for her that we could duo.

In retrospect, though, I'm realizing that if I level too far, her characters will all be too advanced for her to easily handle. So most of the pacts are sitting around at level 12 waiting for us to play them together. Which honestly kind of misses the whole point.

I've used it to level alts on my main account by pacting with my second account and taking that second account alt along with my 50. So I end up levelling an alt on the same account I'm playing.

It's very handy when your best fighting toon is on the same account you want to PL another alt with. Although I haven't used it in a while since GR came out and I acually like the content in Praetoria.

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My wife and I always use levelling pacts.

We recreated a number of characters, so they could be pacted.

Eh, I have a couple between accounts and between friends.

See my Guides and Tutorials

As a tool to farm up my own characters, pretty much.

My son and I use them to make sure we always have a good pair of characters to team with. I will top off a level solo now and then, but I wouldn't just run levels with it, he would feel he missed too much.

@Anasthesia and I are currently using it on a DP/MM blaster and a DP/Kin Corrupter.

We've used it before in the past as well, and probably will again.

My wife and I use it on some pairs of characters.

I tend to use the Leveling Pact as a means to slow a characters leveling rate. Ever since the XP smoothing, I've felt that I level way too fast through the 12 - 30 range, and that's where I have the most fun.

If it's too much of a grind to level the toon when your friend is not on, then play another toon.

Save that toon for when your friend is on.

Whart is a leveling pact? Just kidding!

I tryied it once, but when another player and I made a pact, he just stood around and I earned the XP. So I decided to cut the pact.

I have two pacted pairs between my two accounts: a Rad/Mind Blaster pacted to a DP/EM Blaster and a Fire/Dark Corruptor paired with a Fire/Pain Corruptor. (I rarely play ranged damage characters, so it helps me to have options.)

I've only pacted with a second person once, and that was with my ex shortly before she and I had a falling out. The pact got broken by some technical issue, but it didn't really matter, because she quit the game to go play [that big-name fantasy game] pretty much right after.

Edit: I forgot to mention the whole reason I started writing this post, anyway.

Ever since we got Super Sidekicking in Issue 16, I don't think that the original purpose behind the levelling pact is really still valid. Everybody on a team plays within one level of the leader/mission holder, so there's no more "getting left behind" by a group. If you miss a play session with a group and get a couple levels behind, just being sidekicked to the rest of them will get you nearly caught up within just a few missions.

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