Didn’t actually play all that much, but some at least.
- A bit of hopping around/soloing/PUGging with Lynn.
- Created new Kheldian pair, Cetus and Lunulata (me/PB and Margie/WS, respectively). The intent is to get them up to 8-9, then pair them off with Al McGordo and Christmas Present. The character stories have not quite gelled in my head yet, but should be fun to play with.
- Did the first Shadow Shard TF, starting … what, Thursday? … and ending last evening. Like most of the SSTFs, this one was kind of annoying. I mean, some eerieness with the Rularuu, but also a lot of seemingly pointless running around between the Shard and Founders and Bricks, a lot of repetitive missions, and a climax that was sort of anti-climactic.
Solid team of 50s, though — Psi-clone, Amorpha, Hang Time, Noelle Frost, Sword of Asgard, Leroy Jones — along with a 44 — War Bones. The most interesting thing about it all was artificial: the team composition kept changing over time, which meant tactics and strengths and weaknesses kept changing, too.
That we were mostly 50s, and thus didn’t have to worry (annoyance factor aside) about death/debt or missing out on XP meant that our tactics shifted subtly (or not-so-), too.
After all that time playing PC, it will be odd shifting back to Ho Ho tonight.
For the record, the (many, many, many) faceplants by Hangtime were MUCH more a function of Rularuu cone attacks than any particular change in playstyle. There were a *couple* times where I said “aww screw it, I’m going in”, yes, but I’ve always done that — HT had all six debt badges as soon as they came out. 🙂
And ICly, it doesn’t matter – Jase can do an almost-efficient matter/energy conversion on his own body, pretty much at will — it’s not like he seriously needs to worry about dying, anymore. 🙂
Now… Hype? Hype’s functionally immortal now too (Rise of the Phoenix), but I still CARE about faceplanting with him. I LIKE that I only have two debt badges on him, and it ticks me off that I’ve currently got 660k debt from the horrifying final AV in the fourth SShard TF. I’m looking forward to doing that again with you guys.
Yes, I want to do the Fourth Shadow Shard as well.
I did like War Bones’s renaming of you as “Downtime,” though. And was morbidly pleased that my Rez actually didn’t recharge fast enough to heal you during a two-faceplant … 🙂
Actually, the most amusing death of the afternoon was with Noelle, both because (a) I had just discoed and come back on and had missed who had died, but assumed it was you, and so ran right past her body, only to be confused to find you on your feet and not clearly post-Awaken; (b) I’d run past her because she’d died on a ramp and all that was visible was (cough) her boots sticking out.
And I would be pleased to do the SSTF4 when it rolls around, schedule permitting.