Death From Below to 50?

Well Grats!

Nice to see another fire/fire/fire

Then you have the opposite end of the spectrum.

I dont even know how to join a dfb, even though I see people talking about it in atlas.

(Clueless) Lewis

And before the snowball temp power could make those 5 miles fun, too!

But seriously, this 50 was fast for me because it's my third in seven years of game play. Yes, I have altitis and love it! ;->




Also: To participate in the DfB sewer trial, you can join as a team or single through the LFG window, located next to Email at the top of the chat box. The queue may take a long while if less than the minimum 4 players are waiting, so most players form a team first.

I like DFB. I didn't at first, but I do now. I despise the early game, I hate not feeling "super" in a super hero MMO. If I make a new character it either stays in DFB for a bit or takes a trip to AE with my second account. I like a lot of the level 20-30 story arcs, some of the ones in the 30s, and even more of the 40+. Redside has an especially nice selection of 40+ story arcs IMO.

I don't think it's terrible that people can and do level up pretty high with Death From Below. I do think it's a shame they miss some quality content, but that's what Ouroboros is for.

Yes. i've actually considered it. It is somewhere around even efficient with my other methods in 20-30, and less efficient in 30-40, and sub optimal in 40-50 for me. The problem, of course, is that it is incredibly repetitive and boring. Now, I level fast. I just took a character from character creation on Monday 23 to 50+3 incarnate on Sunday 29, and worked full time that week. So, YMMV.

I see a character like this in my future though, just to say I did it. In the 20s you get approx 1 level or slightly less per run, in the 30s it takes 2-3 runs to level, low 40s around 3, and high 40s around 4. Figure approximately 100 runs (half complete guestimate, half calculated) to go from 1-50. Each run would take approx 30 min to set up/run, allowing for setup/recruit/afk, etc. So 50 hours? Ich, seems long, but I would guess that figure is about right.

Two thoughts:

1) I actually like low-level toons. They're COX-lite. Often, I have no desire for a hyper-intense incarnate trial with auto-death lurking at every corner. Beating up Hellions in Perez Park can be very relaxing.

2) I may have rescued a dfb-baby earlier today. He was a lvl 24 brute that couldn't kill his own lt-strength double from the Keith Nance arc. I waltzed in with a lvl 19 scrapper (sk'd up to lvl 23) and killed the bad guy in a couple of seconds, while the brute waited outside the mission. Brute was amazed. He had all the fly travel powers and super speed, and not so much in his primary and secondary. I was amazed and came up with an excuse to run far, far away. Mind you, I did like the idea of a scrapper rescuing a brute.

You could, but it's pretty slow. It'd also be repetitive and dull. By the time you're in the 40s you'd be able to estimate the average number of steps your toon takes through the trial :P. It's moderately decent exp. even later on but barely more than a solo newspaper mission.

Yea it is a pretty sweet set up FOR the new starting out characters and Players. I personally do three and possibly fours runs and then it is on top other and much better things.

That being said I have made a character that I will use her for Nothing but DFB's. This is to help out all those new free and VIP players to level up and get badges and so forth. But when the new issue cranks up. I will move her to the new missions. That are DFB type. I will get to know it then start to help there as well.

I am on Victory server and the characters name is Ms. Sheena Kin/Invul Scrapper current level just shy of 14

I was talking more about the game circa 2006. True enough in the months before SSK the TF's were getting harder and harder to form. I personally feel it's one of the best changes to happen ever. I'm just not sold on it needing to be this way from day 1.