if you solo - why not just PL then play the game from Oro?

First, I find using Oro more annoying than bouncing around from contact to contact, zone to zone. As much as I want to do the First Ward stuff on my main, I just can't stand Oro enough to go through all 7 parts. I kinda wish there was a way to just pick "Night Ward" in the list of arcs, and be able to run parts 1-7 straight through.

And second, as others have said, I'm more entertained by the journey to 50 than actually getting to 50.

I mostly solo and I very rarely use Oro for anything but transportation.

I enjoy playing the game in 'real' time.

I think part of the problem with this thread is that people might be talking at cross-purposes; it sounds to me like Dug is saying, "Why not power-level up to 24 or 25 (whatever the minimum level is to do Ouro content) and then spend the rest of your way to 50 doing missions solely through Ouro, where you get teleports and don't have to spam through random 'hey, run a patrol of Peregrine' missions to get to the arcs?"

Whereas what a lof of people seem to be answering is, "Why not let yourself be power-leveled to 50 and then play the whole game through flashback?" These are two very different questions.

To answer the question I think Dug asked, as a frequent soloer, I enjoy teaming just enough to be irked by having to quit an arc midway through instead of just leaving it (this is even more obnoxious when you hit 50 and are doing the DA content to get Empy's...) Also, I like the sense of achievement I get from doing things, and imagining it all as flashbacks breaks immersion just that tiny bit. (As does seeing greyed out power icons of cool stuff I just earned but can't use.) Hope that helps!

As others have said, it's too much trouble to deal with juggling Ouroboros arcs and team content, and it really breaks the immersion of the arcs as being part of the character's own development and exploration of the city. But that does give me an idea about a Mender character who treats all the content in the game as missions into the past. It'd be a limiting way to play the game, but an interesting story angle.

Never saw much of a point on power leveling. There is a certain fulfillment behind growing up with a character and taking them through different storylines that other toons haven't. It gives them a sort of personality that I didn't expect, and relationships with NPCs that I didn't plan for.

Also, Ourobos just kind of feels forced and locked in. I can't just stop and do something else: I have to do the whole Ourobos arc, or quit halfway through and start again if I want to do something else.

I find the Ouroboros experience to be inferior to the regular levelling experience, for the following reasons:

1) I dislike being locked into task force mode.
2) I dislike exemplaring more than a handful of levels (I don't slot for it, so usually my level 50 exemplared down to 20 is weaker than he was when he was 20 for real).
3) I enjoy the experience of gradually unlocking my powers, and learning/developing my character over time.

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Originally Posted by dugfromthearth I do understand that many people equate powerleveling to farming or being leveled. That is not what the term means in MMO's in general. It is leveling quickly as opposed to doing the content. Given the vast leveling difference between a team of 8 and solo, I regard teaming as powerleveling. I suspect that many people regard powerleveling as doing something more exploitive than what they do. In the George Carlin sense that "anybody driving slower than you is an idiot, and anyone going faster than you is a maniac?"

I've played a lot of MMOs and your definition isn't one I've come across often. Far more common in my experience is the definition that you're receiving outside help to level much faster than the normal content would allow and/or running the content in an abnormal way (and DFB etc are part of the normal content in this context). It's not generally something you do for yourself (besides perhaps dual boxing or exploits), hence requests for somebody to "plvl me". Although, colloquially (though I suppose the term itself is that by default, but hopefully you know what I mean) people may declare they're going to powerlevel themselves, I've always taken that to be a slightly tongue-in-cheek deviation from the core meaning. Possibly we just move in different MMO circles though.

My first 70 50s were all played the old fashioned way. Now I dual box myself to 22 (in AE, I like the lvl 10 -KB IOs and lvl twentyish 3% defs) and start there with SOs, using Ouro for the fortune teller.

I both solo and team at different times, and sometimes log in the middle of an arc so don't want my toon tied up in TF mode if a teaming opportunity arises.