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We still have options - once we reach level 5. I usually just run over to where the Hellions spawn for Habashy's first mission - if you never talk to him, the Hellions never stop spawning. 10-15 minutes later, I'm level 5, and I can do Twinshot's arc (ew,no!), go to the Hollows and run those arcs (my usual preference), continue Habashy's contact chain, go to Kings Row and start running scanner missions, or speed through a few scanners to get one of the oldschool contacts. I could also head over to the AE building if none of those appealed to me. The railroading really isn't that bad.
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Originally Posted by Forbin_Project
And no one was bored to freakin tears of Atlas Park a week after Freedom launched when the devs castrated the start up content leaving us no alternative missions other than Habashy/Twinshot or DfB's.
We've all seen how popular railroading players into linear mission progression is with City of Villains and Praetoria. Pre-Freedom we at least had the illusion of variety blueside. Got sick of the contact missions in AP? Hop over to Galaxy City for a change of scenery. |
@Roderick
To say you don't want to farm and run a bazillion DFBs and ITFs in a row strikes me as a peculiar way to see things.
Also, yes, I miss the old missions. While the new content tends to be more dynamic and fun on a first playthrough, it's plagued with tutorial-style talk to X or do Y to learn Z missions which really hurts the replayability.
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That's definitely true. Still, people tend to pick up the pace if you go forward - which often requires to play dumb and enter missions while people ask to wait, and start fighting when people say AFK, and so on. | Statistically speaking, in my experience pick up task forces tend to be far more efficient *and* far more enjoyable than pick up normal teaming specifically for the first two reasons. I haven't joined a pick up team in over a year that did not stop every mission for approximately as long as the mission itself takes. I can *solo* faster than most of the pickup teams I've been on. Which is ok, if I'm just relaxing and I'll literally read a book while the team goes and figures itself out. If I'm actually in play-the-game mode, I will join teams, and the first time they decide to pick their noses for ten minutes whoops, grandma died again, I have to log. |
I've been grumbled at many, many times, although more often than not indirectly, but I can count the number of kicks I got over the years on my two hands, and I'm not even sure any of them were related to that particular attitude. Likely, the extra XP smoothes out much of the potential grouchiness caused by "that overeager kid who just won't listen"; and I suspect most people, the silent ones, don't particulary care for going slowly but don't want to take point either.
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OK then, what about the part where he said other than farming?|
Originally Posted by Darth_Khasei
Yeah I got the numbers all messed up, but you get my drift.
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Oh, you didn't read the thread before you posted. Gotcha...
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QFT. We'll see how bored he is after he's 50+3 and has run the Magisterium trial about 90,000 times.|
Originally Posted by Thirty-Seven
Ugh. DfBs are super super boring. I can only stand to do like 2 of them a week... at most.
But, then, I have never cared about "fast" XP, just so long as the team isn't either: a) fighting stuff far too low so that nothing is gained from the mission or b) fighting stuff waay too high so that it takes us like 5-10 minutes per group of purples. I could never understand why folks want "fast XP" if the ride is boring and over before you know you arrived. |
Thank God he's on Freedom is all I can say. Chances are I'll never encounter him in-game.
Summer Blockbuster Event isn't too bad either; especially if you have some form of XP booster or Patrol XP.
DiB lacks the AVs of the DfB (and I think that's where it takes a comparative XP hit; pushing people back into DfB mode); however the Summer Event has more AVs than the DfB... providing a somewhat similar (if not, better) XP gain while not restricting your power usage back to pre-10 levels.
Apparently, I play "City of Shakespeare"
*Arc #95278-Gathering the Four Winds -3 step arc; challenging - 5 Ratings/3 Stars (still working out the kinks)
*Arc #177826-Lights, Camera, Scream! - 3 step arc, camp horror; try out in 1st person POV - 35 Ratings/4 Stars
Just saying.