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Time to finish up my last CEBR (Pinnacle). I had him level locked at 32, but I guess I'll just buy the recipes I want now rather than farming for them.

I remember running the KHTF because of the 10 high level Enhancement drops from Mary.

I remember having to do that to get the 10 Missile Launch badge in Warburg, but that was on Freedom when there was more PvP.

On Pinnacle I stopped at 32 with my CEBR. That's the last server where I don't have a 50, but I've moved on to my next project which needs lots of mid level Recipes. The mob HP curve is pretty steep at low levels, and flattens out at mid to high levels. Player AoE damage is much straighter. If you start out with lots of AoE (like a Claws/Electric Brute) you can beat the Mob HP curve at low levels. Other characters can beat the curve at high levels thanks to multiple Primary/Secondary powerset AoEs, Patron or Epic AoEs, and Incarnate buffs. But I don't know of any power set combo that works particularly well at mid levels. SS/Fire Brutes have several AoEs available at that level, but CEBR is about as fast as a good level 50 SS/Fire with extra Patron AoEs and Incarnate buffs. I don't think you'll find anything that you can play at mid-level that is faster than CEBR.

Since you can't exemp down and get mid-level recipes that actually stop at mid-level, your fastest option is likely to continue to use CEBR. It's still silly fast to ticket cap. Level 25 gives you the third row of Inspirations, which is necessary for efficient Inspiration combining. Beyond that, Energize and Power Surge are nice but not necessary. So actually, you'd be better off using Claws/Fire if you wanted to level lock around 30. Blazing Aura does a little more damage than Lightning Field, and you won't miss Energize much. But you want to continue to fight mobs that are level 2. Adding Burn to your AoE damage output won't make up for the big difference in mob HP.

Hot Feet and Fire Cages can hit 16 targets.

BTW, I always throught the rate was closer to 1 or 2 a day for a single target.

The Weekly Strike Target thing is good advice, but it comes at a bad time. For the rest of this month and all next month, it's all very high level TFs. You'd need to level REAL fast in order to be able to run them. But if you can level that fast, you don't need them.

Electri Kitty, Claws/Electric Brute, hit 50 about 2 AM PDT the night i21 opened. I was going to start this thread, but the login bug bit me and I forgot about it once I got in days later.

The feel depends on whether you're leveling up or farming tickets. Farming tickets is basically unchanged, except that you'll finish off most of the mobs around the time you hit 750 tickets. It's safer because the agro and incoming damage dies out sooner, so your initial Inspirations last for a longer percentage of the more dangerous part of the farm.

Leveling up turns into a ticket farm. Rather than killing the mobs twice for around 1500 tickets and then clicking the glowie for 0, you defeat them once for around 750 then click for 750 and exit. You still ticket cap every farm but you spend less time in the mission, so ticket production goes up to ticket farming rates. But the XP is significantly lower. You earn half the XP in (wild guess) 75% of the time or so, so it ends up being about 70% of the pervious rate. Again a little safer because of the starting Inspirations.

I've started putting Recharge Reduction in Energize while leveling up my last Brute (Pinnacle) because the mission cycle was under 2 minutes once, the base recharge time of Energize. That surprised me. I spend enough time outside the mission getting the next one and loading up on Inspirations that the Enhancements make a difference.

They finally OK'd my arc today. It's only a single mission, and the mobs no longer rez. Plus the mobs are worth a bit less XP because of the lack of rez. Time to replace them with regular Dev created mobs that are easier and worth full XP.

You do know that it costs like 25k Prestige to put a crafting table in your base, right? Why bother summoning a crafting table in there?

The GMs still haven't gotten around to reviewing my arc (5 days and counting). But on general principle, I've adjusted it to not look like a farm. That means adding real descriptions and mob costumes, plus making it only a single mission long.

I believe I already explained the basics of the farm in the original post, in case someone wanted to roll their own. The map has changed since then but the objectives haven't. There are 2 boss spawns in the front with 3 ambushes each, plus a glowie to finish the mission when done. The mobs are all fixed at level 2. Some maps have lower than the 1500 ticket cap, so make sure you play it and check. The mobs are all Dual Blades/Regen with fairly few powers. The Minions only have thrown knives, while the Lts and bosses get that plus a single melee attack. They all have Revive and Fast Healing I think, maybe Quick Recovery if it makes a difference. They aren't all worth 100% of XP at level 2, but that's exactly what the Devs do to balance "easy" mobs.

A marketeer would say "prices are too high" if they can't bid for stuff on the Market because it sell off-market for over the Inf cap. A powergamer would say "prices are too high" because they don't have enough Inf to buy purples that actually are on the Market. A casual player would say "prices are too high" because they can't buy anything decent on the Market. I would say the later two uses of "prices are too high" are far more common, so it doesn't make sense to restrict that phrase to meaning what the Marketeer thinks.

CEBR is not an exploit. If this was an exploit, the mods would have removed it long ago.

MARTy has no effect on it. I actually tested it. First mission got me up to level 9.5, second one (with spin and Hasten) to 13.5. So apparently going from 1 to 50 in around 5.5 hours is a reasonable rate for MARTy. Inf looked good, capped 1500 tickets each time, and there was no indication that I was defeating mobs without getting rewarded. I never even died, which is surprising since I only had enough Inf to buy a few Lucks before starting the first mission.

I expect to have a new level 50 Brute on Exalted tonight. Unless of course MARTy is more forgiving at lower levels. Then again the extra speed from the Increase Attack Rate Empowerment buff or the cheap Global Recharge PvPs and Purples I recommended in the original post may also make a difference. I suspect a few people will be trying it out later today. See you in the Atlas AE. It'll be a refreshing change from Mercy.