Death From Below to 50?

Is it possible to level to 50 just by farming Death From Below?

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Originally Posted by Samuel_Tow [The Incarnate System is] Jack Emmert all over again, only this time it's not "1 hero = 3 white minions" it's "1 hero = 3 white rocks."

I don't know about 50...

Sadly, it is possible to level all the way to 33 in a day, playing nothing but DfB.
I know, because I've had a 'debate' over doing so with someone I talked into playing.

We rolled up together, I made the mistake of using DfB to get us to level 12 in 3 runs. Taught him how to Q. We then ran a handful of Radio's before calling it a night.

He then jumps on 1st thing in the morning, plays for 9 hours before I get on and lo and behold is level 33 while I'm still 14. All from Death from Above. For a vet, that isn't a problem, and with SSK I wasn't worried about him being higher level. I was going to be training him during those early levels though.

He was playing a Blaster, ended up picking the entire teleport pool, the entire leadership pool, 2 flight powers and was using his nuke as an opener.

Needless to say, after much back and forth on the situation, I was unable to get him to reroll. A few days later, he's on a brand new level 5. Having deleted the Blaster in disgust after being laughed at by every team he joined...

I really wish the trial had a diminishing reward, so each level gained caused it to give less and less, eventually being outlevelled as far as XP goes at 22.

Frankly, I feel that making this a Trial with auto-exemplaring was a mistake. Oh, sure, with JUST the sewers, people were still skipping the very low levels, but you ran into a wall of diminishing returns when you simply outlevelled the stuff in the sewers. You can't outlevel a Trial that exemplars you down to its own level.

I don't get this. The developers make the Architect and then they're horrified to learn that people are using it to powerlevel. It should have been obvious that if you give people the option to pick a high-gain, low-time-investment option, they'll abuse it, but OK, I'll give them that one. Live and learn. Then they turn around and put in the DFB, which is practically the same thing.

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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.

On top of that, they go further and actually entice us to run it multiple times for the Hydra Bonuses.

*Shrug* Go figure.

I still enjoy the trial, just wasn't anticipating it being used to PL.

I will run this TF 4 times back to back just for the 4 temps,the 3 badges I hope to get on the first run,this gets me to lvl 13/14 then its onto normal stuff for me.To run this TF for 9 hours would have me reaching for a gun,so now not only do we have the AE babies we also have the DfB nippers lol.

It's entirely possible to level to 50 doing nothing but the trial - but I suspect it would get transcendentally boring fairly quickly past level 20 or so.

MaestroMavius also raises a good point in that not only do you rush past the levels by PLing, because of the autoexemplaring to level 1-5 you never get a chance to use said powers and evaluate how well they do or don't work for you until you stop running the sewer trial and try them out in other content.

I'll likely still regularly use it for to get a new lowbie character up to scratch, or for some quick fast XP to a midbie when I've cleared my tips and don't feel like soloing, but I'd highly recommend that especially newer players use it sparingly past level 10 or so.

To 50 sounds pretty doable. I've been skipping to 22 by doing it and that only takes a few hours.

I do worry about the AE baby syndrome it can create though.

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Originally Posted by PRAF68_EU Dispari has more than enough credability, and certainly doesn't need to borrow any from you.

Personally I don't think I could do it past level 14 or so due to the loss of shiny powers.

It's a great mini-TF and all but once I'm level 8 or more starting it and I see greyed out powers when I start I start thinking "Right, onto proper things after this so"

The down from below trial is a bit disconcerting with the power-levelling, for vets it's a nice way to skip to the levels they desire but if new players are going to play it over and over without trying anything else, we get dfbabies, and the case in point was already mentioned earlier, if you don't know how the powers function you're going to struggle so much later on in the game.

Trials needs diminishing returns for sure. At least four runs of full rewards to collect all the hydra chemicals then quickly shaving chunks of rewards until all you could possibly get is maybe SO drops or just plain inf and no experience.

The original sewers were just so people could quickly fight their way up to Lv10 when the proper story arcs begin, being able to go to Lv50 on it is just taking the p***.

Slightly off topic, but I'm curious. Why was Exemplaring changed so that you still gain XP while exemping? Was it make TFs a bit more pointed to start at the appropriate level ranges?

I've just returned to this game after about a year off and i left just about when the architect came into the game so i've not really experienced the power levelling aspect.

The highest crit i had was lvl 42 and i levelled him up through the story arc's and double exp events ect.

I think that the powerleveling idea is good idea, however, maybe this should be granted to you once you have obtained a lvl 50 through the story arc's and such, this would then give the player an idea of what's required from the character they create ?

Just my two peneth lol

The only problem is that there's only one trial till you get to 50.

The way you queue and the way it's structured and easy to do, and the rewards and xp are all great. They should work on the way regular arcs work, so that exiting one mish takes you to the next, and allow people to join in (if the group leader allows it), and up the XP to be comparable.

Should also be able to do 3-5 papers in a row like this, by queuing up and running through them, finishing off with a big awesome mayhem mission.

Until they do this, they should have a couple versions of the DfB trial, still let anyone join them, but have level ranges of SSK'ing based on the level of the group leader, so people can still learn to use their powers (though I think most of us farming these for xp have several 50s and are tired of the regular methods).