The 300th ding

Last night my mind/ice dominator Niefelheim hit his final ding, reaching level 50. So what is this 300 coming from? That is the total number of levels on the 6 dominators I have in City of Villains, i.e. all of them are now at max level.

It was roughly 2 years ago that I decided to create characters with the dominator archetype, covering all powersets available. It was simply the most fun archetype for me in City of Heroes/Villains, so I wanted to try the different powerset combinations available. There were a few false starts until I found the powerset combinations I was reasonably happy with to play.

Initially I had a goal to get all the pets available to dominators (available at level 32 for 5 powersets) but once that was reached, the goal transformed into getting them all to max level, at some point. But that should not happen due to hours and hours of grinding – I have been through such a phase years ago in Earth & Beyond and I am not going through that path again. This became a bit of a problem on the villain side of the game – if you have played through most of the content several times before, motivation and fun can be challenging to muster. For a while I thought it would perhaps never happen.

But the saviour here was Mission Architect – suddenly there were literally thousands of new arcs to try out. Even though some were perhaps not top notch, it was still new and a variation on the traditional content. Thus it is still preferable to playing the old content. 

The same goes really for pretty much all of my villain characters. It will mainly be Mission Architect content that I play with them and anything new that might pop up in future releases. 

At this point I have no further urge to get a character to max level and I might actually spend more time playing the characters that are already at max now also. For me it has been a very nice milestone to reach.