jump in difficulty at 40?

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After dying about 5 times last night in the Dr. Voight mission, I started to
suspect something had changed. My bubbler usually gets bored in solo
missions but this one was twice as hard as the 39's had been. Anyone else
noticed a big jump in difficulty at 40 or was it that particular mission?

 

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On Sat, 26 Feb 2005 19:18:37 GMT, "Bill Kuykendall" <sales@gems.com>
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>After dying about 5 times last night in the Dr. Voight mission, I started to
>suspect something had changed. My bubbler usually gets bored in solo
>missions but this one was twice as hard as the 39's had been. Anyone else
>noticed a big jump in difficulty at 40 or was it that particular mission?
>

In general, no, in fact, I found many missions easier. -HOWEVER-,
there are more AV missions 40-50. A lot more. Most notably, the
Praetorian arcs.

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"Bill Kuykendall" <sales@gems.com> wrote in message
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> After dying about 5 times last night in the Dr. Voight mission, I started
to
> suspect something had changed. My bubbler usually gets bored in solo
> missions but this one was twice as hard as the 39's had been. Anyone else
> noticed a big jump in difficulty at 40 or was it that particular mission?
>
>

Dr. Voight doesn't ring a bell, but you certainly run into some different
villain groups that pose new challenges in the 40's. Carnie Ringmistresses
are just brutal and some of the Malta have a status effect that lasts for 45
seconds and Sappers are a notorious pain in the butt. Malta aren't bad
except they often hit with a status effect attack. The effect doesn't last
for an appreciable amount of time, but it does drop your toggles if you
don't have status protection. Malta also like to load up the caltrops,
sometimes so many that even Superspeed grinds to a halt. That's when I love
Phase Shift. I haven't gone up against the Praetorians, but I've heard
they're pretty rough. Crey and Rikti seem to be pretty much the same - if
you dealt with them in the 30's, you should be able to deal with them in the
40's. Overall, things do get tougher in the 40's, particularly for classes
that don't have status protection.