What was your reaction upon hitting level 50 the first time

Started by artbunker, July 23, 2014, 11:10:35 PM

Relitner

I hit 50 around Issue 3 with my main. My initial reaction was, "Hallelujah! No more debt!"

I do believe I probably worked off enough debt to level three blasters to 50.
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Waffles

I'm surprised nobody else posted this yet.

Then again, I couldn't find one guy doing it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xIVy5XdQhOM


Optimus Dex

My first 50 was after I had played 4 years. My son and daughter in law both played and teased me that I would never have a 50 because I was an altaholic and the master of the under 20 game. So I made a claws / reflex scrapper and ran him to 50.  That convinced me to make a PB - then I decided to get a villain to 50 so I could get a Soldier or Widow. I felt a sense of satisifaction that they could no longer tease me on my altaholic  behavior.

Apex Viper

In the end, we all are heroes, even the Villains; fighting to save a city that we all love.

AlphaFerret

I almost quit the game after I dinged my first 50.  I had no alts and figured I saw what the game had to offer.  Luckily, I decided to start up a new toon, and eight years later I was still dinging 50s;)
I cannot wait to get back to Paragon City.

Byakuya523

was happy I got my blaster to 50 that i rushed into DA and died
Nahar 50 Energy/Energy Blaster
DraconicSins 50 Fire/Fire Tank
Chaotic Princess 50 Robotics/Thermal Radiation MM
Kugari 50 Titan Weapon/Super Reflex Brute

Peacemaker

I took me 7+ years to hit my first level 50.  My main character P E A C E M A K E R on virtue.  After hearing of City of Heroes closing I made the grind to 50.  I was so excited and spent most of my time from then on exploring the incarnate stuff.  But after finally reaching level 50 and years of rerolling my main character I knew I wanted to commemorate that moment so the first thing I did was commission Brandon McKinney, artist on the Blue King Studios run of City of Heroes comics for the picture you see in my avatar.  I had my second hero character A R C H E T Y P E ding 50 shortly after.  I was well on the way to a third 50 with my character Z E N a hero who made his way through the Praetorian resistance missions.  I wish I would have ran a villain to 50 but I think my villains only made it to levels 20-30.

Blackshear

At the time there was no endgame, so when I got my first hero to 50 I went, "Meh, new character."

After the VEATS debuted I decided to take a serious stab at leveling a villain...an elec / elec brute who was pretty goldurned fun to play.  When I got him to 50 I went, "Yahoo!  New character!" and rolled my first widow.  Oh, widows, how I miss ya.

Finally, when the incarnate stuff hit, I blew the dust off of my collection of 50's and started playing them again.  Endgame, at last!

Nealix

I think my first level 50 was early on in the CoH timeline.  I promptly put him away and played alts for years.  Getting to 50 when there was little to no endgame was sort of a let down for me.

I had always had the goal to get at least 1 level 50 from each of the 10 base archs (sadly I only ended up with 7 archs completed before closure) and some of the newer powersets were so fun I just took the characters all the way to 50 without even feeling like I was grinding.

When Incarnate content came out I was playing all my level 50s for the incarnate powers.  I loved BAF!  Not sure why that one never got old for me like most of the other incarnate trials did.  If the game comes back I want to finish what I started and get all 10 base archs to 50!

MattTreck

"Now people can't tell me to go level while we're sitting in Atlas Plaza."

I was incredibly excited seeing as I believe I was 12 or 13 at the time.

TriNitroToluene

Relief. :-[   I began suffering from altitis almost immediately.  It probably took me 18 months to get my first 50 partly due to not teaming much in the beginning.  I eventually got the hang of things and ended with numerous 50's of every AT, except fot a Peacebringer and Widow.

Crazyleo

For me, it was a sigh of relief that I made it to 50; mainly because it was such a grind from 40 to 50 that I literally burnt myself out of the game for two years before coming back.

Thirty-Seven

Well, considering you've earned half the total XP you need to get to 50 at something like Lvl 45.1...

Crazyleo

Well, at the time, I only had a bare bones background for the character (FF/Eng defender). When I decided to come back, I made the effort to flesh out that background and the personality of that character (and all subsequent characters). All that effort paid off in spades because I enjoyed playing each and every character and the grind to 50 wasn't as arduous as that first time.


Freakenstein

Quote from: Matt Treck on July 30, 2014, 08:24:19 PM
"Now people can't tell me to go level while we're sitting in Atlas Plaza."

LOL. Atlas Park Bums FTW!
First time I dinged 50 I spent the next 5 years trying to get that 1XP to make it to 51.
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Felderburg

A little bit of "finally", a little bit of "yes, Kheldians!" and a lot of "Woooooohooooo!!!!" I tended to play with lots of alts, and casually, so I ended up sweeping the Portal Corp. parking lot one day when I got close. Possessed Scientist for the ding!

I immediately went to Atlas and threw a celebratory costume contest with a 1 million inf prize (this was before the market, and while 1 million wasn't huge huge, it was quite a bit, as I recall).
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FatherXmas

About time.

Actually because of a bad case of altitis I only got my namesake to Level 50 and it took me years because I rarely ran him once he got to PI.
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