Thee Fifties in Five Days ^_^

Since I'm both an altoholic and a power gamer, I often have multiple characters in the level 40+ range and have long threatened or toyed with the idea of arranging things so I could have a new 50 a day for a full week, or something. The only problem is, that means leveling a lot of characters to 49, and then waiting until I have all the others lined up. And I can tell you, once you hit 49 it's hard to not gun immediately for 50. ^_^ So I've had characters hit 50 within a week of each other once or twice... but I think this last week is the closest I've come to that "one a day for a week" idea.

Because the ITF was the Weekly Strike Force last week, I abused it quite a bit to level three characters at once. I was already working on a spines/WP scrapper named Sister Kate, and she hit 50 on Saturday. But I also ran two of my Defenders through ITF. They'd long been stuck in the 46-47 level range. I quickly got them to 48 and 49, and on Monday Ice Girl Eight hit 50. After that we were back to regular ITFs... but two more runs Tuesday night brought Dark Girl Four to 49.5, and on Wednesday I hit 50. ^_^

I did not run an ITF tonight... I think 8 or 10 runs in the last week was enough for me.

Alas, if only this weekend were still DXP weekend, I probably could have gotten another level 45 character up to 50 by Friday... that would have been fun indeed. ^_^

Anyway, what I've learned:

A. Working on IO builds for three new fifties at once is kind of a pain. Even though each of them was mostly finished before fifty... trying to polish off each build now that they're 50 makes my head hurt. It's much easier to concentrate on one character at a time.

B. Spines is a fun scrapper set, but is still not as AoE happy as my tricked-out electric melee/shield defense scrapper Sparks Fly. That's my favorite character to play, for the last half year now.

C. I have five level 50 Defenders now, and I really don't play any of them. The others are Empathy/Dual Pistols, Force Field/Energy (Bubble Girl Six), and Dark/Arrow. Dark Girl Four is Dark/Dark of course, a D3, and Ice Girl Eight is Ice/Ice. I've always liked dark powers, my highest Corr is dark/dark as well, but really, even though I know everything the character can do, at 50 I still feel weak. The Ice defender meanwhile feels not only more damage-capable, but more useful in general, with several AoEs, two single-target holds, debuffs, defense shields, and endurance recovery... I think if I work hard on incarnating any of my defenders, Ice Girl Eight is the one to do it on.

D. I'm not sure who to work on now... or if I should stop leveling sub-50 characters for a while. Sonic Girl Seven is still 45, my only MM is still 45, I have two blasters in the 42-44 range, and several characters in the 35-39 range that I want to level... at some point I'd like a 50 of every AT, and I still need to get a stalker, corruptor, and dominator to 50 (along with my MM). (My highest stalker and corr are in the 35-39 range). But when DXP comes in August I might just start with a brand new character.

Anyway, I had to document these three. Kind of wish I'd done this sort of thing for all of my other 50s, but ah well:

You could use a blog.

Nonetheless, grats!

I came into this thread to complain about PLers!!!

Dang...

Grats on your 50s though! I keep thinking about using a Double XP weekend to do the same with a handful of near-50 toons I have but invariably either just play whoever the heck I wanna play or start new toons.

I've used the ITF WST to get at least two of my 50s to that final ding. Ferret got his this last go around. There's nothing quite like plowing through hordes of Cims and then watching the XP circle spin around one last time when Rommy falls.