Met the gang...
Mar. 30th, 2005 10:21 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
terryclothYes, this is more City of Heroes. I don't have anything else to talk about because I'm still obsessed and spending all my time on it.
Last night I tried to look up 'Steve', but couldn't find any sign of a MrMarvel or @MrMarvel or anything like that. I did notice that Onrie (Michelle's scrapper) popped on, though, so I gave her a tell and we started doing some hunting around Skyway City. I'm not sure if having a blaster along really speeds things up for a regen scrapper, but at least I could stop the runners. Or, well, the runners that didn't immediately leap off cliffs.
After a short while, Tom came online with Origami (his low-level scrapper) and the three of us did a couple easy missions -- an old Frostfire they had, and a new mission I got which was low level for them.
"That was too easy," Tom said, "Should we teach Aaron to fear the Tsoo?"
And so they did. Onrie had a Tsoo mission, and after getting a couple more people (another blaster and a peacebringer) we went in and faced down swarms of reds and purples. The first battle was a slaughter... most of the group at least managed to get out the door, but by the time I noticed things were going bad I also noticed that I'd backed myself into a corner and couldn't get out. Oops.
Then, we realized that Onri and Origami could sidekick the lower-levelled members, and Tom decided to try patiently working through the mission instead of rushing in with superspeed autofollowing the tsoo sorcerer (note: this is a bad idea), and it got a lot easier. It was still really hard, and we had to retreat several times, and a couple times people died... once it was even me, although that was only because I went linkdead.
I was in fullblown coward mode! The only things that got AoEd were the damn Ancestor Spirits that kept swarming the peacebringer. This means that I used AoEs in almost every difficult fight, of course... just not right away. Normally I'd just use single-target attacks on individual minions, then run in and use the PBAoE slow to help against the bosses and sorcerers. I love chilling embrace. }:)
It took HOURS to complete the mission, but I got a level and a half doing it, and ended up out of debt despite a couple deaths.
The Tom brought Candy online, and she gave me a hovering and teleporting tour of the city. Most of it was kind of 'eh'... you've seen one skyscraper, you've seen them all. The Devouring Earth were weird looking, though, and she pointed out the Paragon Dance Party and Icon... and I got to see some boats in Founder's Falls and an inexplicably still-burning disaster area in Boomtown.
Why is The Swan standing out in the open training heroes in her underwear?
Around 1:30am, Tom brought Summer out, showed me the outfit he whores her out in (it's a lot less revealing than her standard dominatrix battle gear -- civvies!), and gave me a bunch of influence (like, 90k) which I used to buy a full set of DOs for my attacks. That might be a waste, since I'll have to replace them all at 17 or 18, but there's a noticeable boost in power switching to them from the trainings I was using (particularly the accuracy), so it should make the next four or five levels a lot more pleasant.
Last night I tried to look up 'Steve', but couldn't find any sign of a MrMarvel or @MrMarvel or anything like that. I did notice that Onrie (Michelle's scrapper) popped on, though, so I gave her a tell and we started doing some hunting around Skyway City. I'm not sure if having a blaster along really speeds things up for a regen scrapper, but at least I could stop the runners. Or, well, the runners that didn't immediately leap off cliffs.
After a short while, Tom came online with Origami (his low-level scrapper) and the three of us did a couple easy missions -- an old Frostfire they had, and a new mission I got which was low level for them.
"That was too easy," Tom said, "Should we teach Aaron to fear the Tsoo?"
And so they did. Onrie had a Tsoo mission, and after getting a couple more people (another blaster and a peacebringer) we went in and faced down swarms of reds and purples. The first battle was a slaughter... most of the group at least managed to get out the door, but by the time I noticed things were going bad I also noticed that I'd backed myself into a corner and couldn't get out. Oops.
Then, we realized that Onri and Origami could sidekick the lower-levelled members, and Tom decided to try patiently working through the mission instead of rushing in with superspeed autofollowing the tsoo sorcerer (note: this is a bad idea), and it got a lot easier. It was still really hard, and we had to retreat several times, and a couple times people died... once it was even me, although that was only because I went linkdead.
I was in fullblown coward mode! The only things that got AoEd were the damn Ancestor Spirits that kept swarming the peacebringer. This means that I used AoEs in almost every difficult fight, of course... just not right away. Normally I'd just use single-target attacks on individual minions, then run in and use the PBAoE slow to help against the bosses and sorcerers. I love chilling embrace. }:)
It took HOURS to complete the mission, but I got a level and a half doing it, and ended up out of debt despite a couple deaths.
The Tom brought Candy online, and she gave me a hovering and teleporting tour of the city. Most of it was kind of 'eh'... you've seen one skyscraper, you've seen them all. The Devouring Earth were weird looking, though, and she pointed out the Paragon Dance Party and Icon... and I got to see some boats in Founder's Falls and an inexplicably still-burning disaster area in Boomtown.
Why is The Swan standing out in the open training heroes in her underwear?
Around 1:30am, Tom brought Summer out, showed me the outfit he whores her out in (it's a lot less revealing than her standard dominatrix battle gear -- civvies!), and gave me a bunch of influence (like, 90k) which I used to buy a full set of DOs for my attacks. That might be a waste, since I'll have to replace them all at 17 or 18, but there's a noticeable boost in power switching to them from the trainings I was using (particularly the accuracy), so it should make the next four or five levels a lot more pleasant.
