Cebr

Tried this out last night. 0-22 and several million inf in under two hours. Excellent guide.

Made my modest attempt at this these last couple days. I'm not much of a button masher, and definitely exceeded the 5 1/2 hours by about 10 hours but I made it to 50 in two days, my fastest time ever. I wouldn't want to ever repeat this but it was a worthwhile experiment.

It was interesting running into people of a like-mind. You see a CE brute hanging out in AE, and you send the simple "CEBR?" and they respond with "Yep".

Level 50 CEBR #8 on Union finished, though the total time was 5:53. I hit level 42.8 at 4 hours, and 46.9 at 5 hours. I died once in the first 3 hours when I started this character last week, and once more finishing it up when I forgot to hit my Inspirations after entering the mish.

I was stopping at the first spawn and using Hand Grenade to agro the second one. I don't think I wasted much time on bidding for or crafting the Grenades as I have /auctionhouse and base teleport. I don't know why it took a bit longer than normal, but it wasn't much.

Valley Kitten is now at level 32. Another run and she'll clear 100 million in inf. She also has a background and a costume I'm mostly happy with. My plan now is to use CEBR to get her to 40, then do the patron arc, then finish up her redside explorations while doing rogue tips.

Which brings me to the normal play build. While I wasn't surprised at the lack of defense, I was in the lack of Power Sink. I imagine a sacrifice had to be made in the name of damage and recharge, but that's a handy sap to have - especially for a high recharge build that's going to be hammering hard on the blue bar. Granted, having Energize up as often as possible will help with endurance, but is it enough to keep from being stuck on blue skittles?

Generally IOd builds have significantly fewer END problems than other builds. High-Recharge High-DPS IOd builds are an exception, but the general play build I posted isn't all that bad. It has decent END Reduction slotting most places, and Energize really helps. I play with Hasten on auto, but with this char maybe it should be Energize on auto. And remember I recommended Destiny Ageless for the Recharge buff, but that also improves End. Feel free to post a different build with Power Sink, and tell us how it works.

By the way, I finished my Ticket Spreadsheet and posted my results over in the Market forum. Generally the most effective way to spend Tickets is on Bronze rolls level 15-19. The big sellers are the Reactive Armor, Steadfast: Res/Def, and Rectified Reticles.

Here's the Mostly Generic/SO Compatible Build I was planning on putting on mine. I don't care to invest in a full IO version, but there were a few places IOs were particularly useful. Basically same build, but nerfed, particularly nerfed in AoE. I debated pretty heavily between shockwave for Survivability and Eviscerate for damage. But, since this isn't going to be a main, and not likely to see much general play-time, I just went with Eviserate. For the most part because I would have normally chosen shockwave for survivability.

Most IOs are dirt cheap these days, considering how much you can earn per hour. Sciroccos mostly under a million, and the one exception is only a few million. You'll spend more on rare salvage than you will on the recipes, unless you have a ticket farming Brute who can get Rare Salvage quickly and easily.

I started a new brute on Vigilence. At 1:02 I'm at level 25.4, so a bit faster. I just use the vet Blackwand attack to pull the second boss, and he comes alone and doesn't get hung up on the rest of the spawn charging. I think that helps a bit. Then the Nemesis Staff on the second boss pulls more of the spawn.

I started with only 10k starter Inf emailed to myself, and that worked out fine. I had to sell my first Rare Salvage for 1 to get enough to list the others, but that's hardly anything. At 30 I'm going to start rolling Bronze 15-19 as I recommended above, and see how that works. I'll be getting the highest level Steadfast: Res/Def and Rectified Reticles, so those should sell fast. The Reactive Armors won't be 40 till I am, but hopefully I'll still get some decent Inf for them. We'll see how I end up at 50 doing this.

At 2 hours on my Vigilence Brute I'm level 32.4, which is more normal. I realize why my first hour was faster than normal, I forgot to start a SG. I've died twice, once likely because I didn't have the Increase Attack Speed empowerment buff. I just felt so slow. I started the SG and things are going better now that I have the buff.

I tried my first set of Bronze 15-19 rolls and was rather disappointed with the results. Sure I got a handful of Reactive Armors, but at level 31 they don't sell for much at all. A LOT of the value in the Bronze 15-19 range is Reactive Armors. Plus it took a while, but that's to be expected. I took another look at my recipe spreadsheet and found that Silver 10-14 is a MUCH better table to roll on when you are between 30 and 39. All of the money rolls on that table top out at level 30 or below, which means you'll get top dollar for everything. It's also faster. So that's what I'll be rolling on till I hit 40.

I don't plan to use my CEBR SGs for personal storage, so I'll invite people if they want to get a head start. I've got them on Liberty, Victory, Champion, Zukunft, Defiant, Guardian, Union, and Vigilence. At the moment they all have an Empowerment station and sometimes a Salvage storage bin with the Salvage needed for the Increase Attack Rate empowerment buff. Join the old "Buffer Overrun" global chat channel to see if I'm on and send me a /tell @TopDoc.

I hit 50 on Vigilence after 6 and a half hours. The delay was because I was buying recipes rather than Salvage. I've got 875M so far and I should hit over a billion when the rest of my stuff sells. So it's about the same as leveling up to 50 and then ticket farming for another hour. As I mentioned before, buy Silver 10-14 recipes from level 30-39, then Bronze 15-19 recipes from 40 to 50.

My new strategy was to do a mission, roll 2 sets of recipes, delete the junk and put the good stuff into the Market, then start over. Hasten would recharge right around then, so I was running with Hasten every mission as long as my tickets held out. You don't quite earn enough tickets to do 2 sets of recipes from a single mission, so I sometimes ran a mission with Power Surge rather than rolling for tickets. That would generate enough extra tickets to run several sets of mission+Hasten&recipes.

I could do this because I have /auctionhouse, so I can bring up the Market interface while talking to the Ticket Vendor inside the AE building. Roll tickets, put the recipes I want to keep right into the Market, delete the junk, repeat. If you don't have /auctionhouse, you can still use "/toggle auction" which I believe will let you see what you have. It may even let you check prices, so you know what to keep and sell. When you run out of tickets, you can drop off the good stuff at the Black Market right outside the AE building in Mercy.

This thread is great. I don't like catgirls, however. Will a foxboy do instead?

This is simply an awesome guide. I started this morning, i'm currently at level 35 AND the first silver recipe I bought was a Miracle Proc. I have a SG base on a new server and over 100 million inf, and I'm not even level 50 yet.

This was the PERFECT way to return after a 4 year absence. Thanks TopDoc!

ArcticShu, I'd say you're welcome, but I'm a bit confused. The Miracle proc isn't a Silver drop.

ChiosuBlues, every time I see a foxboy from now on I'll just imagine that it's a catgirl. We both win.

I just wanted to thank TopDoc for this guide. While I didn't roll claws/elec (went SS/FA), the info you provided made the journey to 50 easy, fast and lucrative.

http://boards.cityofheroes.com/showthread.php?t=271316
Sounds like MARTy is going to seriously slow down the leveling times doing this.

seether28, where did you get that quote? I can't find the context.

http://boards.cityofheroes.com/showp...&postcount=123