City of Villains: Forum Topic: The Evil Twin of the Double XP Progress Thread! by Mzzkc on the GameAmp Network

QUOTE (jlmcgowan)

Ah, Double XP weekend. How the sweetness rang in my ears. I’ve been playing CoH and CoV now for 8 months, actually I should be getting my 9 month vet reward by the end of this week. Since I’ve been playing I have almost completely forgotten about any other game, or gaming system. I did make a dozen or so creatures with the Spore Creature Creator (trial), and I did go through basic training in America’s Army. For the most part it’s been all Heroes. I have been through at least one other double XP weekend so I knew what was coming. I devised a plan.

• Get Queen Savra up to level 35
• Get Brewhilda up to level 35
• Get Blasteronic up to level 20

The thing about plans is that they seldom seem to work out like you want. Last XPx2 weekend I was pretty busy. I think it was somebody’s birthday or someone was in town or something. I hardly got to log on at all. My best friend Big D and I had planned to spend big chunks of time leveling our heroes up but it never happened. I spent a half hour here and there and only a couple of characters did any significant leveling. This time would be a little different hopefully. However it wasn’t. I had to paint the master bedroom, including the window sills and the trim of the window frames. Yeah, there are four windows in that bedroom, four panes per window. All taped and painted with a small brush. The whole room had to be coated in primer because the walls were a dark blue and the wooden frames on the windows were dark, dark wood. Don’t forget that I had to paint the ceiling also. It was the biggest time consuming deal when all I wanted to do was smack some bad guys around and see a lot of level-up flashing. Although Darrell and I had planned about 3 times to get online together and play, we only succeeded in this once.

Late Friday night I had gotten online with Commander Ryker in Freedom. He went from level 21 to level 23 before I went to bed. Commander Ryker is my tribute to William Riker aka #2 on Next Generation. Most everybody I team with either calls me a Trekkie or a nerd when they see him. I get a few compliments on him saying how similar my Ryker looks to Riker. I also get a lot of, “prepare to be genericized when a ***** sees this.” Well my Ryker is spelled differently and I don’t affiliate him with any Star Fleet in his bio, but he is pretty similar. I suppose one day I might log on with Ryker and his name will be “Hero 839 102 384”. I’ll just have to buy a name change token and name him “Cmdr Bill Rygar” or something to that effect. The second thing is that I’m not a Trekkie. I’m a Star Wars geek. Hence my in-game global chat name of John_Solo. I actually have three John Solo heroes. They are on Triumph (lvl 20), Freedom (lvl 8), and Guardian (lvl 2). John Solo has similar outfits to Han Solo, but he’s got my face and hair, goatee included.

Saturday evening Darrell and I were supposed to get together online after he got off work, however my wife and in-laws had different plans. I didn’t end up getting home Saturday night until 11 p.m. and D had already called it a night. I logged on with Queen Savra but I couldn’t find anybody to team with. She is my main villain. Level 31 Magic Mastermind – Necromancy/Dark Miasma. Sometimes its hard to find teams in Triumph, and it is doubly so on the Villain side of it. I logged her off to find that both Virtue and Freedom are full. The next shard with 2 dots was Infinity, my thinking being more people, easier to find a team. I have four characters on Infinity, none of which I deemed worthy. Von Helm, Mr. Cellophane, and Masochistic Cutter are all blah. There is also Princess Lieu Hahn, who was the predecessor to Darth Yinyang, who is the basis of the new guy – Gemini Force-Knight. He’s a Natural/Defender & Kinetic/Dark Blast. See my gimmick here? Gemini – Twins. Good side, bad side. His chest emblem is the drama masks. Happy face/Sad face Kinetic heals and buffs, Dark Blast shoots dark energy. Well that was the thought process anyways. I think I might’ve gave him Electric Blast at the last minute. I was thinking about how The Emperor shot the shit out of Mace Windu and Darth Vader with that badass Lightning Blast. The Emperor was definitely from the bad side. Darth Yinyang (a hero on Triumph) had the Kin/DB set, however the name Darth Yinyang sucks ass and I think that although I got him to lvl 8 in about 20 mins due to the XPx2, he’s bound to be sacrificed for more room. Anyways, I got GFK up to level 15 and I’m really happy with his costume.

After painting my arse off on Sunday, I was 30 minutes late for our online meeting, but after finally hooking up with Big D in game we logged on as the witches on Virtue. Brewhilda (lvl 33 Magic/Controller – Illusion/Radiation) is mine and Witch Azreal (lvl 33 Magic/Defender – Storm/Electric) is D’s. We got on a decent team and both hit 35 by the end of the session. That means the witches are now able to do the Roman missions. Outstanding.
Overall it wasn’t too bad of an XPx2 weekend. I got to spend a lot more time online than I did the first time. I didn’t get to do much with Queen Savra, but I think now that the witches are lvl 35, the plan is for Queen Savra and X-33 (D’s stalker) to get up to 35 to do the Roman mishs

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City of Villains: The Evil Twin of the Double XP Progress Thread!