How Long Dous It Take "YOU" To Level To 40?

circleofpsi · March 2015

Alright, so I'm just wondering from other players, how long it takes to level up a toon from 6-7 right up to level 40?. I'm wondering this due to that I'm very lazy and I feel that the leveling up system is very slow, even much so when it gets near 20-30. And I'm wondering if there is any tricks or so to make it faster or if they should to a level up token or so.

As well, Im interested to see how long it takes other players to level up

flyingfinn · March 2015

Give or take 16 hours to 5 years.

drgmstr · March 2015

For me to how much I spend time leveling, takes me roughly 3-4 days with full nemesis gear. What I do is lvl up to 10, and then do a mix of XP alerts for the buff and XP (since at those lvls 1-2 XP alerts can lvl you up quite fast) and quest until able to do the crisis missions in Canada and the Desert between lv 14-16. By then I just do a XP alert only for the buff and then quest like crazy. When needing a break from questing I just go ahead and do few XP alerts, along with the other alerts depending on what Alert daily is up. Usually by the end of the first day I am least in the 20s. 2nd day I can get up into the high 30s which can then start to go into a crawl to get to 40 for the 3rd or 4th day.

These days the only time I quest is when 2x events are up so the task is shorter. Can also look on the AH for XP boosters to help shorten the time as well. Many can do it in shorter time but that is how long it takes me to how much time I spend on CO, and that is if I really am focused on lvling. (I can get easily sidetracked when lvling

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gingervitos · March 2015

Taken me 5 years to get my main to level 12. I should get a forum tag for that.

guyhumual · March 2015

I've leveled quite a few characters and it's probably closer to 16 hours, maybe as little 14 on a double xp weekend, Alert XP bonuses active, nemesis gear, and bonus XP devices (like those picked up on holiday events and out of lockboxes).

Course the thing that often slows me down is choosing powers, hunting gear, traveling from mission to mission, selling loot, and waiting on stupid escort missions. If you're a good planner and know what you want most of those issues can be streamlined down, not the traveling so much, but knowing what you're going to take at each level and having the gear you want and need really helps. Nemesis gear is a godsend for leveling for this reason.

decorumfriends · March 2015

flyingfinn probably has a spreadsheet figured out for this:

Give or take 16 hours to 5 years.

That sounds about right to me.

circleofpsi · March 2015

guyhumual wrote: »

I've leveled quite a few characters and it's probably closer to 16 hours, maybe as little 14 on a double xp weekend, Alert XP bonuses active, nemesis gear, and bonus XP devices (like those picked up on holiday events and out of lockboxes).

Course the thing that often slows me down is choosing powers, hunting gear, traveling from mission to mission, selling loot, and waiting on stupid escort missions. If you're a good planner and know what you want most of those issues can be streamlined down, not the traveling so much, but knowing what you're going to take at each level and having the gear you want and need really helps. Nemesis gear is a godsend for leveling for this reason.

Humm, yeah the Pp boosts from the Gear and the normal 20% ones from the store/AH/lockboxs are perrty nice, sadly for me I'm quite lazy and takes me a week maybe. but if I really put work onto it I think only takes me about 2-3 days. If I start a toon from an higher level like 13 or 20, then its a bit more esayer, due to bypassing some levels, but when it reaches to level 20-30 it slows down so much. I don't nomraly do questing due to the fact of traveling and such, I mostly just spam XP alert missions.

I don't kown, if this be cheating or whuold make the game worse, but an level-up token whuold be nice to maybe level 20, for an "Heads start", but unless I really put my heart into it, it takes nomraly about 2-3 days, as long I'm not doing RP.

roughbearmattach · March 2015

I play quite a lot, but I also have many toons.

On the occasions when I focus on one toon, it takes me two weeks of regular play to hit maximum level.

I generally play a total of 20 hours in a week, so about 40 hours.

Leveling from 21-30 is notably slow, I agree. It picks up again when Monster Island and VB Crisis are in play.

I mix in Alerts, usually doing the daily Alert mission, plus the daily Special Alert, then level through missions.

ealford1985 · March 2015

My first toon took 2 years.

My other 40s... 4hrs to 30, 4hrs to 40, so 8hrs

circleofpsi · March 2015

roughbearmattach wrote: »

I play quite a lot, but I also have many toons.

On the occasions when I focus on one toon, it takes me two weeks of regular play to hit maximum level.

I generally play a total of 20 hours in a week, so about 40 hours.

Leveling from 21-30 is notably slow, I agree. It picks up again when Monster Island and VB Crisis are in play.

I mix in Alerts, usually doing the daily Alert mission, plus the daily Special Alert, then level through missions.

Yeah, that's the only real issue I have with leveling up system it stream-rolls at them levels, but then picks up after. I am starting of a new toon from level 13, so that should take 2-3 days with full care into it. I just wish and i'm going to sound like a lazy ****, so feel free to call me one, but I wish there was an level 20 token ticket, so when you use it, lets you be that level. But I'm unsure if that will be game breaking in some way.

ealford1985 · March 2015

cryneting wrote: »

Yeah, that's the only real issue I have with leveling up system it stream-rolls at them levels, but then picks up after. I am starting of a new toon from level 13, so that should take 2-3 days with full care into it. I just wish and i'm going to sound like a lazy ****, so feel free to call me one, but I wish there was an level 20 token ticket, so when you use it, lets you be that level. But I'm unsure if that will be game breaking in some way.

Here is what you do...

Got a vehicle?

If yes, get to Canada ASAP.

In Canada grab as many open world missions as possible (no lairs or places you must enter)

Turn in missions and get new ones as often as possible through Crime Computer.

There are also a lot of missions that say "talk to this person in this area...you don't even have to go to them to get the XP"

Head to Desert and do only those missions around the robot canyon place.

Once Monster Island opens up do same steps as in Canada (avoid Ironclads vaccine missions)

If you do have a vehicle Gravityy pulse thing is the best to kill lots of mobs and get the missions drops.

You should be around lvl35 when you run out of good MI missions (if you don't have XP boost)

guyhumual · March 2015

ealford1985 wrote: »

My first toon took 2 years.

My other 40s... 4hrs to 30, 4hrs to 40, so 8hrs

Well my youngest level 40s, a toon I level and stop playing, is showing to be about 16 hours 44 minutes, which is very close to FlyingFinns' initial estimate, but then I also spend a lot of time at the tailors before I start leveling, and often afterwards to get the look for each map just right. I also have a lot of friends and spend a fair bit of time chatting with people. I'm not sure I could just pure level a toon to 40 in just 8 hours, a lot of the other factors I listed earlier would still slow people down, but it might be possible.

spinnytop · March 2015

cryneting wrote: »

Alright, so I'm just wondering from other players, how long it takes to level up a toon from 6-7 right up to level 40?. I'm wondering this due to that I'm very lazy and I feel that the leveling up system is very slow, even much so when it gets near 20-30. And I'm wondering if there is any tricks or so to make it faster or if they should to a level up token or so.

As well, Im interested to see how long it takes other players to level up

About a week of casually playing one to three hours per day.

Trick: Run grabs while completing missions. Before lvl 20 there's no point since you'll out-level them too fast. After 20, grab 2-3 of the highest level missions you have access to in M-City. Once you hit 27 head to Monster Island and do missions there until Level 40. Remember to move on quickly once your current batch of missions is blue text.

I'm fairly casual about leveling though so I'm sure there are faster methods. Not much to rush to lvl 40 for anyway.

kojirohellfire · March 2015

Considering my altitis? It can take a while.....

xydaxyda · March 2015

Yep about a week for me if I really get to work on it. Just like others have suggested, do a grab alert every so often for the xp boost and stick to mostly outdoor missions. I do westside stuff till level 13 then hop on the chopper for the desert crisis. After that I do some of the first few missions in the desert(love me that old west ghost town area) then head to Canada till I am high enough level to go to Monster Island... sometimes going back to the desert to do the missions around stronghold. If I am using a character with a vehicle I like to head down to Lumeria at level 31, and at level 34 I unlock Vibora Bay and typically finish up the rest of my leveling there.

ealford1985 · March 2015

guyhumual wrote: »

Well my youngest level 40s, a toon I level and stop playing, is showing to be about 16 hours 44 minutes, which is very close to FlyingFinns' initial estimate, but then I also spend a lot of time at the tailors before I start leveling, and often afterwards to get the look for each map just right. I also have a lot of friends and spend a fair bit of time chatting with people. I'm not sure I could just pure level a toon to 40 in just 8 hours, a lot of the other factors I listed earlier would still slow people down, but it might be possible.

I figured this out with double XP. Normally I can use two double XP and get to at least 35. So a little over 8hrs straight running, no messing with Build.

nextnametaken · March 2015

At my year long casual play rate, divided among eight characters, more than a year each.

lestylo · March 2015

My first character took about a year. The other ones were much faster (a month or so). In the the end though it depends on the AT I'm using and how much time I have to play (which often times is none at all). My Inventor was my longest excluding my first toon, taking about 2-3 months mostly because I just hated using it (though in the end it cured me of my altitis so there's that).

kemmicals · March 2015

What's a "dous"?

jonsills · March 2015

kemmicals wrote: »

What's a "dous"?

It's a little thing we like to call a "typo", kem. Once a typo makes it into a thread title, you're stuck unless a mod decides it needs to be changed.

I feel you on the altitis, kojiro. I usually get a toon somewhere between 25 and 35, then I get an idea for another toon... I've had to force myself to keep my holiday-specific toons (Rudolph the Red-Nosed Pain Deer, Undead Abraham Lincoln, and Vincit Omnia the war cherub) for their specific seasons, so they don't slow me even further in leveling the others.

guyhumual · March 2015

ealford1985 wrote: »

I figured this out with double XP. Normally I can use two double XP and get to at least 35. So a little over 8hrs straight running, no messing with Build.

This is about what I recall as well, using two double XP bonuses (at 4 hours a pop) gets me to about 35, and from there it's maybe another hour or so to hit 40. What I remember, however, doesn't seem to equate with what I can prove. Non of my toons had less then 16 hours of play time on them. So I was forced to reassess my initial estimate, bumping my estimation up to 12 hours, but again I haven't really done any power leveling, I take time to chat/role play, work on costumes, and I fuss a good deal over builds.

I should also add that I did a lot of leveling without vehicles, which, if nothing else, give you the equivalent of rank 3 travel power to get around the maps. I have a habit of picking up anything that drops, meaning I have to return to civilization to sell loot. And of course because I'm not really trying to see how fast I can do it, I sometimes don't bother with doing an XP alert every 40 or 55 minutes or so. If there's an alert I don't care for, or a boss I don't feel like dealing with, I'll wait for the next alert in the cycle.

It might be entirely possible to get to 40 in eight hours but of my 55 level 40s it would seem that I've played them no less then 16 hours at this point. So I think it's entirely possible to do it in less then 16 hours, and I'd be comfortable saying it's entirely possible in 12, I just don't have the evidence that it's possible in 8. Next double XP weekend however, if they announce it far enough in advance, I'll try power leveling and see if I can pull it off.

ealford1985 · March 2015

I don't think there is really a right or wrong answer. There are tons of factors, what I was saying is just from personal experience, speed leveling that is about the time...call it 10hrs or 12hrs.

I don't have that many 40s for sure but you probably know like I do the quickest/easiest missions to get there. I have one toon right now who doesn't use any XP. Some days I just want to reach 40 fast.

biffsmackwell · March 2015

kemmicals wrote: »

What's a "dous"?

It's what I don't always drink, but when I do, it's a one-of-them Equis.

guyhumual · March 2015

ealford1985 wrote: »

I don't think there is really a right or wrong answer. There are tons of factors, what I was saying is just from personal experience, speed leveling that is about the time...call it 10hrs or 12hrs.

I don't have that many 40s for sure but you probably know like I do the quickest/easiest missions to get there. I have one toon right now who doesn't use any XP. Some days I just want to reach 40 fast.

And I'm not disagreeing with you, my initial estimate was 8 hours or so under ideal conditions, but then I started looking at the numbers I actually had and decided to re-evaluate my guess. I think 8 hours is possible but I just can't back that up yet. I can say that two boosts to get to 35 is very possible as I have two characters at 35 at the moment that I leveled up with two XP boosts (waiting for another double XP weekend to top them up to 40) but sadly I've role played with both so I can't use their total time played as part of my calculations.

The reason I'm quoting you is that your estimations were exactly the same as my first guesses, and I'm inclined to think that it's not a mistake that we both came to that number. I'm just censoring myself because I'm not 100% and my fact checking based on my own characters showed me numbers far higher then I'd expected. It seems like 8 hours is possible but time does flow differently when you're engrossed in a game.

jonesing4 · March 2015

Yeah, two doses of Double XP is enough for me to get it done. I pretty much immediately level all my toons to 10 upon creation, then leave them till an XP weekend comes around to get the boost, so they can start off with the easy stuff. That first 4 hours takes me to somewhere between 27-32. The next time you get a 4 hour boost, it's cake to finish up to 40.

I do what others have mentioned--vehicle with Gravity Pulse, stick almost exclusively to outdoor missions (with a few notable exceptions for indoor maps that offer great XP yield for very little time investment), and run Grabs once an hour to get the boost. Nemesis gear + the XP Boost item also help out a bit.

I also usually run "Fighting City Hall" Grabs whenever they're up, since they offer the best XP/time invested, and I think it's a good length for a fun little boss fight. Avoid "Stitch in Time" and "Museum Heist" like the plague. "A Day at the Mall" is great for running off a quick 3 Grabs if that's the daily. "Bank Robbery" is kinda middle of the road; I'll do them if I'm in a gray area between mission chains and just need a quick XP injection.

Just finished off #70 earlier this week, and mixing missions with alerts certainly has kept me much more sane than just grinding out Smashes/Grabs used to do.

crypticbuxom · March 2015

It took me like a month off and on to get my first character to 40. It was probably something like 20 hours, but I was leveling a few other characters too. From then on getting a character to 40 was easy.

What's really funny about that is it was blazingly fast compared to CoH. I played that thing back in 2005 daily for several months and the highest I got was 26! Champions makes leveling easy and I'm okay with that.

flyingfinn · March 2015

-Find a thread about 'fast leveling competition' Cryptic had couple/threes? years ago.
-Find info how people that were fastet did it.
-Go try it.
...
ZOINKS!!

spinnytop · March 2015

that Kendo guy once did it in under 5 hours.

kyastral · March 2015

I don't keep track of how long it takes me to get to max level; in my opinion, it is more important to have game content to keep my interest so that I will want to level a character to max. And, with the way things are going, I have more characters that are under level 20 than at level 40.

ealford1985 · March 2015

kyastral wrote: »

I don't keep track of how long it takes me to get to max level; in my opinion, it is more important to have game content to keep my interest so that I will want to level a character to max. And, with the way things are going, I have more characters that are under level 20 than at level 40.

I've been trying lately on one guy to clear every single missions possible. Even if it's just some low level quest. I am lvl 30 and I have yet to enter Lemuria, Monster Island or VB. Not to mention any comic series of adventure pack.

There is content in this game, lots of it. Just people don't want to do it. Content also means, lore..perks...costume pieces. I still haven't finished gettin all my Mechanon recognition.

I think the issue with CO is the replay value. It gets old really fast doing the same missions. If they opened up different zones at early levels it would make the experience better.

Would kill to start in VB (and not the Queen City missions)

drgmstr · March 2015

Another thing to add is your account. Gold players have the ability to make builds that just faceroll as a lvling build to kill everything off to quest and alert faster and change their build at 40 to their desirable ways. Silvers we are dealing ATs and each AT has a different style and speed they take to go through missions. High DPS ATs I have managed to get through the few days to lvl to 40 as I said in my previous post but ATs like Mind, Radiant, Inventor, Grimoire, Behemoth took me much longer to lvl up and they can range into the weeks. I guess you have to have the desire to lvl up certain builds and those for me were the dullest to do and I was lucky to quest for an hour a day before I got bored of it.

guyhumual · March 2015

drgmstr wrote: »

Another thing to add is your account. Gold players have the ability to make builds that just faceroll as a lvling build to kill everything off to quest and alert faster and change their build at 40 to their desirable ways. Silvers we are dealing ATs and each AT has a different style and speed they take to go through missions. High DPS ATs I have managed to get through the few days to lvl to 40 as I said in my previous post but ATs like Mind, Radiant, Inventor, Grimoire, Behemoth took me much longer to lvl up and they can range into the weeks. I guess you have to have the desire to lvl up certain builds and those for me were the dullest to do and I was lucky to quest for an hour a day before I got bored of it.

Well this is true, but as I said earlier, fiddling with my powers can take a fair amount of time, with an archetype your choices are very limited and there's less looking over builds then a gold has to. I can't say if you save much time by not spending as much time picking powers, but I do know I've done some stupid things as a gold player that I couldn't do as a silver (without the freeform slot), stuff like using an energy builder as my only source of offense till level 11, and while archetypes are very poorly built in general, someone not knowing how to build a character in CO could do far worse with a free form.

spinnytop · March 2015

ealford1985 wrote: »

There is content in this game, lots of it. Just people don't want to do it. Content also means, lore..perks...costume pieces. I still haven't finished gettin all my Mechanon recognition.

^ and even if you don't count any of that, I still technically haven't completed all the content in this game.

Granted, most of the mission content in this game is nearly identical to all the other mission content, but that's only if you define it the way I do using mechanics.. and if that's the way you think about the game, you would be like me and just spam alerts, which are lvl 10-40 content o3o

chaelk · March 2015

similar to Finn's.

17hrs to who knows, depends on my concentration.

that's FF and AT's.

Mind-easy, behemoth- well he's stuck again

Roughbear,
where do you do 21-30.
I do Canada
Renegade run,
gadroon, - with the collect samples mission- do it in the reign of frogs area.
reporters area,
burial butte

missions are all in a clump and you can do them in one go round

rianfrost · March 2015

about 4 years. only did it once. i spend too much time at the tailor and making alts. there really isnt any major interest for me at the dn of the game. you don't actually fight the lore characters that are built up through the leveling, its big monsters, sure, but nobody you have built up. mechanon helped, because its someone interesting. and there is nemcon, but the game just kind of flounders when you max level.

decorumfriends · March 2015

If it wasn't for the free character slot with every 40 subscription perk, I'd probably only have two or three instead of 20.

nepht · March 2015

I done it in 8 hours

chaelk · March 2015

nepht wrote: »

I done it in 8 hours

But you were pretending that each person you attacked was Caliga

crypticbuxom · March 2015

Fastest I leveled a toon was less than 1.5 hours. But they fixed that a long time ago.

ealford1985 · March 2015

crypticbuxom wrote: »

Fastest I leveled a toon was less than 1.5 hours. But they fixed that a long time ago.

Do tell.

I can beat that....fastest I leveled was 1sec (PTS)

chaosdrgnz43 · March 2015

Well, depends on how motivated I am. I made my werewolf soldier AT character last Saturday, and he's lv35 by the end of Sunday. I was really curious how well the Gatling Gun's synergy with the AT.

I guess, at best, it would be 3-7 days.

kaiserin · March 2015

With optimal use of xp buffs (double xp, xp hour, etc), I've gotten it down to 3 1/2 - 4 hours.

chaelk · March 2015

chaosdrgnz43 wrote: »

Well, depends on how motivated I am. I made my werewolf soldier AT character last Saturday, and he's lv35 by the end of Sunday. I was really curious how well the Gatling Gun's synergy with the AT.

I guess, at best, it would be 3-7 days.

not days for you, time played

/played to see how long

Gatling gun, real well. aggro here we come but at least they run straight towards you. easier to shoot them

decorumfriends · March 2015

chaelk should warn:

not days for you, time played

/played to see how long

Just to note, that's how long you've played the character, not how long it took to get to 40, so it's only accurate for that if you check right after hitting the top level.

How Long Dous It Take "YOU" To Level To 40?

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