Old pair, new results

Since Honeygun‘s disappearance, we’ve been tentatively duoing Kazima and Torchielle — to very mixed results.
The problem is, both of us are damage-dealers — scrapper and blaster — and both of us draw a lot of aggro, one-on-one. Which is great for Kazima, since she’s an Invuln Scrapper. Not so good for Torchielle, who’s a Blaster, and whose flame attacks are aggro-pulling to begin with, and often AoE. The Energy Manipulation secondary helps (as a “keep away from me!” knockback/disorient sort of thing), but not nearly enough. Plus, she was an Endurance hog.
Margie burned her free Kazima respec last night, beefing up some of the latter’s defenses, complete with plenty of bite-me auras. I re-evalled some tactics, after not having played her for a while.
We went back into a Tsoo door mish which kicked our asses last time. Mostly even-level mobs, with occasional variation +/-1. But, aside from a few major flurries, we actually did okay. Kazima did the original rushing, drew what aggro she could, played the field to catch strays; Torchy did a few pulls, focused on her single-target attacks off Kazima, saved the AoE when the baddies were fully engaged, and usually only had to deal with one mob on her at a time. Hell, I actually saw some mobs do the run-toward-me-then-go-back-to-the-glowy-scrapper deal, which was awfully nice.
Result: tentative approval of the duo. We’re going to have to be careful, and they may still be better suited for teaming up with others, but I’m pleased.
Hmmm. I have a real yen to touch bases with Kinetica to find out how she deals with being a squishy blaster.