Okay, I admit it — I have a bit of Obsessive-Compulsive Behavior viz City of Heroes. Such that, as the various Signature Story Arcs have come out, I’ve been insistent on our running through them with all of our alts who qualify.
Which, given that they tend to ramp up in level, has limited the scope. We have 13 “high-level” alt pairs that we run — defined, loosely, as level 25 or higher. Some are Legacy Consortium Heroes on Champion, and a few high-levelers on a some other servers. Several were part of the Great Praetorian Boom. Still other were the Final Level Pact Rush.
But 25 or so only gets you (on the Pandora’s Box SSA) so far. I think the first installment is level 30, and the second was 35. The third (just out) is 40+, which restricts us to six duos to run (we’ve now done four), though we hae twom ore that are in the 38-39 range and could be advanced with a bit of focus.
What’s actually cool about the SSAs is that they play quite differently depending on who’s going in on them. We have an array of variations in our duos (scrapper-or-brute/troller of various flavors, blaster-or-corruptor/tank ditto, scrapper duos, mastermind duos) as well as variations on their difficulty settings. Given that we can usually plow through one of the SSA installments in an hour (after the first hero and villain run-throughs, where we actually read the dialog), that’s not too bad a way to kill an evening.
The current installment (2.3) is actually pretty darned good. Malta is always a challenging mix of firepower and debuffs, but the final installment does a nice job triggering some status quo changes that are due out with I24.
I look forward to the third SSA. And, as well, to our herd of level 5-20 duos we have growing up on Exalted qualifying for these adventures …