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So I've leveled three or four characters to 40 now and I am noticing a pattern. Somewhere between level 37-39 I have exhausted all mission content as far as I can see that yields XP. This means I've done all the Vibora Bay and Monster Island missions. I haven't done ANY of the Lemuria missions because I hate that swim zone with a burning passion. But VB amd MI are exhausted.
Of course, there are still the repeatable collection quests, but I hate those too and this is why: with the collect 20 reports or similar, I have found the RNG to be extremely unreliable, to the point where I am defeating the right mobs in the right location, but 10 to 15 minutes pass by and I see not a single one of what I need to collect! It's a huge time suck, so I avoid the collection quests.
The last thing I try to avoid is unfun, difficult quests. I can build a halfway decent character, I almost always pick Regen for my passive, plus a full set of Armadillo's for 50% damage resistance. Add to that the most optimized powers I can pick and I do OK. That being said, I don't like standing toe to toe with a HUGE baddie like Terak and slugging it out for 20 minutes, I like missions I can speed through and get done, quickly beating anything in my path.
I especially don't like "challenge" - I play games to have fun, not to work and not to lose.
So this is my ultimate question: When I run out of the VB and MI missions, what do I do to keep leveling solo, while still avoiding Lemuria, collection quests, and particularly difficult content? Are there adventure packs or other repeatable quest that isn't to much of a challenge to solo? I don't need questionite or gear, just looking for laid back repeatable/farmable XP to help finish off those last few levels.
Thoughts? Thanks.
Of course, there are still the repeatable collection quests, but I hate those too and this is why: with the collect 20 reports or similar, I have found the RNG to be extremely unreliable, to the point where I am defeating the right mobs in the right location, but 10 to 15 minutes pass by and I see not a single one of what I need to collect! It's a huge time suck, so I avoid the collection quests.
The last thing I try to avoid is unfun, difficult quests. I can build a halfway decent character, I almost always pick Regen for my passive, plus a full set of Armadillo's for 50% damage resistance. Add to that the most optimized powers I can pick and I do OK. That being said, I don't like standing toe to toe with a HUGE baddie like Terak and slugging it out for 20 minutes, I like missions I can speed through and get done, quickly beating anything in my path.
I especially don't like "challenge" - I play games to have fun, not to work and not to lose.
So this is my ultimate question: When I run out of the VB and MI missions, what do I do to keep leveling solo, while still avoiding Lemuria, collection quests, and particularly difficult content? Are there adventure packs or other repeatable quest that isn't to much of a challenge to solo? I don't need questionite or gear, just looking for laid back repeatable/farmable XP to help finish off those last few levels.
Thoughts? Thanks.
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Well, Adventure packs are a lot of fun, but I've never found them to be a great source of XP gain. My advice is gonna be Grab Alerts. I know they aren't solo, but since most people don't even say "Hello" while running them, they might as well be solo missions (that you run with a handful of unpredictable, but lovable, NPCs
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Pantagrue - you can do missions below your level for full XP? I have a ton of missions I had thought I had outlevelled, grey mission around level 20. I thought grey missions rewarded no xp?
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I am guessing you missed many many missions on Monster Island. There are two higher-level mission chains there: Elder Worms story and Andrith Ruins story.
I routinely use those to get toons from level 37-40.
By the way, there are some collection missions, but you do those while pursuing other missions in the story.
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However, the idea that pantagrue and others mentioned about going back and doing missions I had missed from lower levels is actually working. I'm doing some of the Canadian mid 20 level missions and I've gone from 39 to 39.25, so it's not superfast progress, but it may be fast enough.
Sorry those Monster Island missions didn't level you up enough. I guess I go in there at a higher level, or with a bunch of XP buffs.
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I went back and did my lower level mish content (mid 20s) and gained half a level, so I only have half a level to go until 40. If my back is against the wall, not sure if I will make myself do some collection quests or make myself do Lemuria. Probably the former, but I hope I can avoid both. Maybe I will poke at some of the alert or story packs to find if they can be done without too much challenge.
It is in a volcanic vent near where Teleiosaurus spawns.
Demons keep popping out of this cave repeatedly.
Whoever you are, be that person one hundred percent. Don't compromise on your identity.
I am pretty sure you start the mission by going into the volcanic cave and beating some demons, or maybe just beating up some demons outside. I think the coordinates are (-574 210 861).
Whoever you are, be that person one hundred percent. Don't compromise on your identity.
I typically run Adventure Packs (usually Resistance if solo) or fight Mechanon if I'm solo and fancy a challenge whilst levelling if I can't be bothered with contact based missions.
Is the Resistance Adventure Pack NOT a challenge fest? Is it like mission content? That might be good to know.
Thanks.
Resistance is perfectly soloable on Elite with a decent toon, trivial with an optimized FF toon. Scaling down the difficulty makes it increasingly easier. (Especially if you're melee, because then you never have to fight and/or play hide-and-seek with a mega-destroid in the Create a Distraction part). Some of that is knowing what you're doing, of course, so it may help to run it with someone else once to get a feel for it. (Hit me up @squirrelloid, i love running Resistance, and I'll slow down to explain things to you).
The only fights that approach 'hard' for weaker characters, assuming you aren't trying to kill Mega Ds, is the last fight when the endbringer comes out, and it seems to not switch over to targeting player characters anymore, so shouldn't be that bad. (Melee will have to be able to survive taking some AoE hits occasionally, but you can snag healing by remembering the nearby resistance fighters toss healing boosters). Possibly the evil Kinetic/Sapphire fight too if you're squishy dps.
Other APs and Comic Series are also soloable.
-Demonflame may be the hardest, because the Left Hand can be really tough for weaker characters.
-SL requires some area awareness (for the roaming plane) and not attacking base commanders before you've cleared all the other mobs. SL at least used to (couple months ago) drop 1 q chest per player per player per boss (so 5 chests per player per boss with 5 people), so it really is better to play it as a group.
-Aftershock is pretty straightforward, but if you play on elite you'll have to be careful about which Avatar you choose - some of them can't do enough damage to solo Witchcraft + Defender (too much regen!) Queen Beyond the Pale is a good choice.
-It's been far too long since I played whiteout, but i don't recall anything difficult about soloing it.
the other 2 yetis, plus pilot oveur are not.
so if you only get them from the crme computer, you are missing some.
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