Extend the Level Range for Lower Level Contacts

[Legree]

I'm going to use Port Oakes as an example - there's probably others but these are the contacts I'm most familiar with.

 

As it stands at the moment it's really easy to outlevel 3 of the 5 contacts in Port Oakes - Mr. Bocor, Angelo Vendetti and Billie Heck only hand out their story arc missions if you're between level 5 and level 9... and the chances are you won't be by the time you're offered an introduction to them.

 

If you do the new Mercy story arc - Kuzmin to Firewire/Weber to Harris you'll likely be level 8 by the time you hit Port Oakes.  Since you need to do three papers and a mayhem to get your first introduction you'll very likely be level 10 by the time you do.  Likewise if you do Kalinda and Mongoose, or Burke and Dr. Creed, you'll again be level 8 or so by the time you arrive in Port Oakes.  Even moreso if you do Dr. Graves along the way.

 

So there's only two ways to reliably get one of these contacts.  a) Turn off XP for a bit, which I'd prefer not to do because... oh alright, because I love that level up ding too much.  Or b) go to Oakes after Kalinda, or after Burke or after Firewire/Weber.  The downside of that being that the street mobs in the zone will be mostly red or purple to you.  That run to Drea the Hook through Dockside can be a bit rough at level 5 or 6.

 

It just seems a waste of three contacts that they're so easy to outlevel, leaving Oakes with only Veluta Lunata and The Radio.  Now I love Radio Free Opportunity - it's one of my favourite contacts in the entire game - but I don't want to tune in every time I run an alt through that level range, and the only other option is to go to Cap au Diable at level 10 and start dodging those red and purple mobs.

 

I'm pretty sure that every enemy group in the three arcs I've mentioned goes up higher than level 10, so would it be possible to extend Mr. Bocor, Vendetti and Heck even just to level 15?  My alts would thank you.

[Chuckers]

You could get the arcs through Oro, no?

[Galaxy Brain]

You could get the arcs through Oro, no?

 

You could, but the point is that the natural progression of the game means you miss out in these guys unless you specifically skip mercy content to go to them.

 

+1

[Chuckers]

You could get the arcs through Oro, no?

 

You could, but the point is that the natural progression of the game means you miss out in these guys unless you specifically skip mercy content to go to them.

 

+1

 

I remember doing all of these contacts back when the game was live (not all on the same character, but I always had to do one of them). I know I have skipped them now because of the double xp boost...

[Galaxy Brain]

There are a lot of people who are new to CoH who may fly by them without knowing :)

[Xaeon]

Yeah it's exceedingly difficult to actually finish any Port Oakes contacts these days because of how quickly you breeze past the zone's level range and move onto Cap Au Diable. Though I vaguely remember something about it being due for some new 7-20 story arcs a la the Skull/Regulators arc added to Blueside in I24. 

[Legree]

I remember doing all of these contacts back when the game was live (not all on the same character, but I always had to do one of them). I know I have skipped them now because of the double xp boost...

 

Even without the XP boost it's easy to outlevel these contacts now, due to the XP rate having increased over the years so that the lower levels go by faster.

 

You could, but the point is that the natural progression of the game means you miss out in these guys unless you specifically skip mercy content to go to them.

 

Exactly this.  I particularly think it's a shame that people may be missing out on Mr. Bocor, since he has a good arc, and also gives you the first opportunity to fight the Sea Witch before she reappears as an EB in Sharkhead.