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City of Heroes: Rebirth => General => Topic started by: ElBee on May 15, 2023, 04:29:18 am

Title: Setless Level Locked - A goal of Accomplishments
Post by: ElBee on May 15, 2023, 04:29:18 am
Challenge runs! People love doing them. Contact completionists and badge hunters are two of the most common challenge characters. I've been having a tough time staying interested trying to clean out all my flash back arcs on my title character, Zinnias. So. I've done the only sane thing someone would do in this scenario. Devise a new challenge run

Allow me to introduce Setless Level Locked. A character challenge type revolving around getting accomplishment badges while being unable to slot anything with a Set Bonus and being unable to progress in levels at certain thresholds until goals are met. A mixture of badge hunter, contact completionist, and masochist difficulty run.

The base rules are simple
Optional rules include

Some badges are acquired as soon as possible if they have a level range going all the way to 50. All locks are intended to be in place at the top of the level for the content required to unlock it.

So what do the level locks look like? I have prepared the Blueside level locks I have been using that I will now show in Spoilers. It's a long list.
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Why do all this? I wanted badges. I wanted to do it on a fresh character. Not using sets is simply to challenge myself. I might get to making a villain list when I progress a bit more into this.

Zinnias of Amber's (https://forum.cityofheroesrebirth.com/index.php/topic,3671.0.html) current progress (7/2/2023)
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Title: Re: Setless Level Locked - A goal of Accomplishments
Post by: ElBee on May 25, 2023, 03:14:01 am
Should probably post on my progress.
All the way to 25 has been unlocked. My experiences thus far:

I've had two issues arise during this run so far. Cavern of Transcendence caps at level 15, but the contacts won't give you missions if you're level 15 as they cap at 14. Additionally you can't access the arcs via Flashback at level 15. You have to be 16. I added the requirement to finish the contacts at 14 because the only way around this is an Alt putting you on Talshak the Mystic's arc via flashback to unlock it for your SLL character. Which I did alone and had to deal with 2x Trolls and Bosses. I was able to but it was really close a lot of the time!

I forgot to get the exploration badge in Skyway Safeguard. Necessitating raising an alt to get the safeguard to get the badge.

The challenge continues.
Title: Re: Setless Level Locked - A goal of Accomplishments
Post by: ElBee on July 03, 2023, 01:44:21 am
-Walks in with an arcade stick and a copy of Street Fighter 6, puts both into a desk drawer and slams it shut-

So I've been busy. In-between the new issue and ... that. This kind of got put on a back burner because of an issue I had ran into.

Contact RNG. Redeemer was held up immensely as I got Christine Lansdale, Lorenzo Tate, Marvin Weintraub, and completed Ashwin Lannister's entire story arc. He still refused to give me the badge mission. I had to pull the Air Bud strategy. Just as it doesn't say a dog can't play basketball; so too does it not say I couldn't use ouroboros to get these badge missions. For the sake of my own sanity, I used an alt to force myself on the mission arc and went through it.

I'm leaving on bosses at this point and am able to successfully deal with elite bosses solo. Protean gave me a startle because he could hit me and did quite a bit of damage. Inspirations and Dull Pain kept me up though.

One thing I am leaning on heavily as a Tanker is Bruising followed by the Black Wand and Sands of Mu. While they aren't effected by personal damage buffs, they do more damage if the enemy has less resistances.

Here is current enhancements:
(https://i.imgur.com/3QfWg0E.png)

The level 29 gate is cleared. Next is the origin of power followed by Too Many Council in Ernesto Hess and Citadel.