The New Peer Pressure (Are You Feeling It?)

Not really, but then I'm probably one of the people "pressuring" others to play their 50's.

I've got about 8 lvl 50's, four of which I played semi-regularly, as well about 2 dozen toons of various levels.

I like doing TF's and SF's, so this has been an excuse to cycle through them with all my lvl 50's, and when the WST is a lower level TF/SF I start playing it with my lower level toons after my 50's have gotten their Notices.

Now i'm interested in properly IO'ing out some of the 50's that I basically stopped playing after they hit 50.

I suspect that it will go back to something more "normal" after people have gotten their favorite 50's slotted with the Alpha Ultra Rare, with spikes of "lvl 50 only" play as the new slots become available.

If anything the new emphasis seems to have balanced things out a bit. Pre i19, I rarely pulled out my 50s because most of the teams seemed to be lower level and I figured why not earn XP on a new toon rather than exemp down. Now, I have absolutely no trouble finding teams on my lowbies or my 50s.

Feeling the Peer Pressure? You bet. The Satanic Hamster made a concerted effort to get my to play my high-level characters and join him on Incarnate TFs and my friends have been scheduling high-level TFs as events for some time. Even the random channels I'm a member of, which would occasionally send out calls for things like Bastion TFs, Manticore TFs and so on now only ever send out calls for the current WTF. I mean, why wouldn't they? It's a TF that grants double rewards. Why would you do anything else?

Am I succumbing the pressure? No, not in the slightest. One of the talents I take pride in is flipping the birdie to the rest of the world and doing my thing anyway, so I've been making and playing new characters, and doing so consistently and entirely alone. Strangely, I don't get fewer tell-invitations to teams than I used to in the low levels, only now I get far more people asking to join my team (when I'm solo) than I get people asking me to join theirs. Odd.

Really, though, I couldn't succumb to the peer pressure even if I wanted to, since it expects me to play nothing but TFs and Trials, both of which bore me to tears.

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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.

I enjoy playing my high level toons, so I don't feel 'pressured' to play them. The only pressure I feel is that which drives me to level my toons that are close to 50, and that pressure is self-imposed.

I feel like a loser when playing my 50s that aren't level shifted when there are those with the (+1) on the team.

I was feeling the pressure to get all my 50s level shifted and I wasn't enjoying things, so I just focused on getting one to the top, so to speak with the paragon alpha enhancemnt, and just play the others when I feel like it. I have noticed that there aren't that many people doing regular missions anymore, at any level, so it is frustrating to have lower level characters that I don't play because I'm almost certain that I won't be able to team with anyone with them.

The people that want to run TFs and "end game" content all the time have always been in the game. The only reason you're seeing more of it is because there is more for them to do these days. If it didn't affect your play style then, it shouldn't now.

+1 level shift is only a minor boost so its not a huge deal. There isn't much pressure to get it.

However, when we get +2 and +3 level shifts then incarnates starts to become a big deal. My concern is that it will lead to "loot eliteism" where we start seeing "Forming X TF, level 53s only, pst"

Worse, calls for lowering minimum numbers for TFs since X AT can solo it since enemies con at -3.

Just saying, I hope this is carefully worked out.

I definitely feel the urge to get my SS/Shield brute up to 50 so he can start doing incarnate stuff. But with 10 billion worth of enhancements I can't slot yet sitting in my SG storage bins I'd probably feel that way even without the incarnate stuff.

I generally only played my mains anyway, but come i20, shards will drop while exemped, so that'll lessen the pressure other seem to be feeling to only run the high end stuff.

It would still be a big deal on vs the fixed Level 54s. A Level 50 vs 53, we know how that goes...

I haven't felt any peer pressure to play fiddies. I have been bored with lowbies for a while now. Too much interesting stuff to do with 50's these days.

If I ever felt like someone was applying pressure to me in a game world, I would ruin them. RUIN!!!!

But seriously, no. Tons of people still running tons of stuff. Not everyone is grinding the Inc.

Have not been feeling the pressure. I've been leveling my AR/Dev blaster and Elec/Sonic troller.

The hubub over the WST and now I20 - that it doesn't have any [announced] solo content - reminded me. There is such a backlog of "content" that I still hadn't done, that it doesn't yet matter if I20 will bring anything new for me.

I put content in quotes because I still consider power sets and combinations thereof as content. My alts are content, and I should embrace them.

No, no pressure here actually. When I finally get something to 50 I ussually play it pretty consistantly for 4-5 months before the itch for something new comes along.

This time was no difference with my Claws/Fire Brute (which everyone should have. Not mine though, go get your own.) I run her with my friends but that is becoming less each day as I search for something new.

So, no, no pressure.

DOOOOOOOOOOM™!


But no, not feeling it. If anything, the new 50+ content gives me something to do with my 50s, as I tend to neglect them once they hit the cap. I've also been levelling a tanker, corr, 'shade and huntsman and only having trouble finding teams on the huntsman. But that's just redside being redside.