Sewer (Death from below) needs xp reduction

(If this has already been posted somewhere, feel free to move this thread to where it belongs)

Im voting for a ”Death from below” (i.e. ”Sewer”) xp reduction; a huge exp dimnish after L8+ (like old sewers used to be). DFB trials really outshines exp competition from pretty much everything else in the game for non hardcore players. I´ve leveld 3 toons to 50 (granted, not from level 1) in sewers alone since DFB went Live but eventually got really bored with it. I heard tons of new players saying they are doing sewers repeatadly and really dont know anything more about the game, some even asking if there is anything else to the game. Its fun and all with fast exp, but its killing old content fast. More urgently, ive grouped with new players in their 30s+ who don´t understand their role. This aint unusual, but the amount of it is.

I'll support a suggestion to have this happen for free/premium players, because it's not a good thing to have people leveling on their first character and not knowing how to actually play.

However, for VIP players, leave it unnerfed.

Now, you know better than this....

Farms are evil. UNLESS they are created by Devs.

So, DFB = okay.

And I say leave it alone. No one is forcing you to run it. No one is forcing you not to run it. If people want to play the game that way, it's their money (or lack thereof).

I'd say nerf it, it's a low level trial, it shouldn't be used to get to high levels. Attach the big experience to the badge for killing the hyrda heads so that players get it *once*, and leave the 4 power boosts so people still have reason to run it more than once (besides badge runs).

I think Feycat said it best in another thread on this same topic.

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Originally Posted by Feycat it's not YOUR job to decide where my journey starts and where my destination lies.

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Let them enjoy playing the game the way they want. They aren't breaking any rules and it's none of our damn business.

Another person trying to get something nerfed in COX? Nah say it ain't so.....

The devs find enough things to nerf ridiculously without adding more suggestions to the pile.

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My stance is the LFG should include nothing that players below lv 10 can access.

That or Death form Below and other stuff in the LFG could require some sort of beforehand unlock in order to be eligible to participate in one.

I do not care if people are exploiting this I care if new players get trapped in a loop of DFB's when they know too little about the game to find anything else.

Don't tell other people how they should or shouldn't be playing, or force them to play a certain way unless it is actively disturbing your gaming experience (which this isn't).

Dumb idea.

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I will admit, I am guilty of DFB leveling to about 39 or so, so I was (and still am, but I'm learning D: ) very noobish.

Having made several other characters and actually run through the content within the game now, I'm much more knowledgeable (though there still are aspects of the game that are a mystery to me).

I would propose that, unless you have one or more characters at 50, the trial offers diminishing returns.

Heard this same argument before when AE came out. The slew of 'AE Babies' threads were mind boggling. People complaining about level 50s that didn't even know how to slot enhancements, or who didn't know that they could train up with anyone other than Ms Liberty cause that was the only trainer they were introduced to, and many many more.

Prior to that it was the broadcast spam in PI for farms and PLing, and bridges.

The point is, it doesn't matter what device people use for fast XP, they'll find a way. Nerfing DFB won't stop you from running into high level characters that have no clue what exists beyond Atlas Park.

In short...

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Just ran it again on a new character, jumping from 14 to 16.

It really is just the absurd amount of easy arch villains in this thing that makes it such an easy leveling tool. Now the SSA was nerfed when the Elite Boss at the end was handing out Arch Villain size experience and people were farming it, and here we have a very low level trial dumping it on people by the bucketfull. Really odd kind of logic there.

I'd rather see the Arches turned to Elites and the Kraken Xp attached to the badge for killing it, leaving in the bonus goodies.

Honestly, if the logic behind keeping it this way is "Well why do all the boring low level stuff when I can skip my way to 50 where I have fun" and the Devs agree with it, they may as well just let us make characters that start at 50.

I run this four times to get the badges and the boosts. It certainly encourages altitis as I can try all sorts of powersets before putting significant time into a build I may wind up deleting after getting a feel for it. I find it enjoyable and useful although I honestly can't imagine running it to 50. That would make me not want to play at all. It might be helpful to give some sort of message that Positron wants to talk to them when they level into posi's Tf range. I think a Tf might be a nice segue from trial to normal game content especially if they enjoy the teaming aspect. Although I ran a midnighter badge run yesterday and had a number of players ask what that was and want to know why it was important. Montague's contact info does pop up when you hit ten so not certain if the contact stuff is helping. I've noticed I'm getting the contacts frequently while actively in combat so people are missing or forgetting them altogether. I wonder if the contacts can wait to pop until your character hasn't activated powers for a bit?