Allow characters to set their active level (their level or below)

[Darmian]

50 minutes ago, DougGraves said:

One thing Ouro does not work with is street sweeping.

It kinda does though, doesn't it?  Take an ouro mish, get exemped, and don't do it.  Just sweep in the level you're now in?  I had to do that to get Hallowe'en stuff for my Gold because I can't go anywhere else and home is too low level for door knocking.  But, take an ouro mish, then knock on doors in Imperial, no probs.

Edited April 5, 2021 by Darmian

[Leogunner]

1 hour ago, Darmian said:

It kinda does though, doesn't it?  Take an ouro mish, get exemped, and don't do it.  Just sweep in the level you're now in?  I had to do that to get Hallowe'en stuff for my Gold because I can't go anywhere else and home is too low level for door knocking.  But, take an ouro mish, then knock on doors in Imperial, no probs.

Huh, noted.

[Turric]

16 hours ago, parabola said:

I'm a fan of this idea. Hard to know without seeing the backend but it might be simpler than auto exemping to contacts (another idea I'm a fan of).

 

This I don't like so much for a few reasons. I enjoy the exemping mechanic, different levels of play in the game have very different feels. If everything was only endgame incarnate fueled insanity it would turn me off massively. There would be a danger that such a change would hollow the game out, with the only teaming available being at lv50 regardless of the content. This in turn would further encourage farming straight to 50 before playing any real content in order to keep up. And having to keep half an eye on exemping performance is one of the few remaining brakes on IO builds and provides interesting challenges in it's own right. Some more backloaded AT's and powersets suffer a little because of this but that's a design problem with them not a reason to make the entire game lv50.

 

Your premise is not wrong, however I am one of those people who will not group until my toon is 50 and all twinked out with IO. I played the other way, for years in fact, and no longer enjoy the grind of it. I farm my toons now to 50 in about 2.5 hours, give or take. And then I go back through Ouro and enjoy the content at my leisure. I wish though that I could play some of that content at 50 with all my abilities. Especially, as you say, on some backloaded ATs, that suffer because their signature powers do not come until later. Endurance heavy sets, such as dark armor and many controller sets, are not fun for me at low level without the improvements I've added to their build later on. You are right, it is an interesting challenge, but one that I am no longer interested in dealing with.

 

To wit, I would love to farm Skulls for the Kill Skuls badge, but I wish they could fight back with at least some modicum of dignity, but I don't want to do it at level 12 without any AOE powers and having to rest every other fight. I've done it that way before and do not wish to repeat it any longer.

 

[Parabola]

3 hours ago, Turric said:

 

Your premise is not wrong, however I am one of those people who will not group until my toon is 50 and all twinked out with IO. I played the other way, for years in fact, and no longer enjoy the grind of it. I farm my toons now to 50 in about 2.5 hours, give or take. And then I go back through Ouro and enjoy the content at my leisure. I wish though that I could play some of that content at 50 with all my abilities. Especially, as you say, on some backloaded ATs, that suffer because their signature powers do not come until later. Endurance heavy sets, such as dark armor and many controller sets, are not fun for me at low level without the improvements I've added to their build later on. You are right, it is an interesting challenge, but one that I am no longer interested in dealing with.

 

To wit, I would love to farm Skulls for the Kill Skuls badge, but I wish they could fight back with at least some modicum of dignity, but I don't want to do it at level 12 without any AOE powers and having to rest every other fight. I've done it that way before and do not wish to repeat it any longer.

 

You would hate my current project - I'm running all the content blueside on a staff/dark brute. Locking xp every 5 levels and tapping out every single contact, doing the safeguards, tf's and collecting badges along the way. I am REALLY enjoying it!

 

For me the journey is the game no matter how many times I've done it before - particularly in light of the current endgame 'balance'. I have tried farming to 50 in the past and I felt no connection to the character. I ended up immediately rerolling and levelling in the normal fashion. It does mean that I don't particularly enjoy AT's like dominators that are very backloaded, but as I said before I see that as being a problem with the design of the AT rather than the way the game is played (still hoping for a total redesign of the assault sets).

 

I totally understand your reasons for seeing it differently though. As I say my worry with the idea of allowing all content to be run at lv50 is that would become the only way teams would run anything. I would hate to see that happen as I don't think it would be healthy for the game overall.

[Arbegla]

On 4/4/2021 at 6:03 PM, Steampunkette said:

If I am 3/4 of the way through the Freaklympics arc, then gain the 1 level that puts me out of it's level range, I'm SoL on the Reward Merits.

 

No true actually. If you're mid-way through the arc, you can complete the arc even if you out level it. The mobs may or may not spawn at your level, but you will still get the rewards merits for finishing it. As long as you have the 'story book' attached to the contact, you can finish their arc anytime.