Always kind of interesting doing the CoH stuff while on the road — I can still play with Margie as though I were sitting at home. That’s worth the price of admission right there …
… though, of course, the “throughput” in our communication is ratcheted back to “tell” speed, rather than shouting comments back and forth.
Actually spent most of the Velvet/P-siren evening not teamed at all. Margie ran off to help another Alliance member who needed psychic-damage-dealers, so I ran a Family/Council mish with BD’s Mofo Firefly as my backup.
We actually did okay — the lack of bubbles made me realized how spoiled I was having them all the time (I had to run with more of my defenses toggled up, burning endurance like crazy — next level, Stamina!), but we developed some good tactics around “pull ’em back to the corner, bunch ’em up, ice patch ’em, and watch me whale the tar out of them.” Not always pretty, but it worked.
Also learned to appreciate PS’s psionic attack, which (a) has tremendous range, and (b) pulls very little area aggro. As opposed to Mofo’s lightning or my (heh) taunt.
When we exited the mish, I was only 300xp from level, so MoFo and I tackled the big band of Family and Warriors just outside. Ding! 23 for me.
Ran the second mish with P-siren, though she wasn’t there when we went in … and we quickly gained even more appreciation for bubbles. Once she joined us, we made steady (if sometimes chaotic) progress through the ship — noting that it was a “rescue” mish, not a “kill all,” so, when we could, we bypassed mobs.
After that, I went and trained up, and bought up DOs to 25, so I’m ready to kick some serious butt.
Originally I had planned to drop a slot in Dull Pain and another in Temp Invuln, but I’ve been finding Unyielding so valuable (covers all damage types and resists status effects), I dropped them both in there, making it six-slotted. As noted above, when I hit 24 I jump into the world of Stamina.
We had several instances of the “dead man standing” bug, as well as some odd cases where the other players did this “jog in place” animation, even though they said they weren’t. Weird. I also had some cases where I didn’t get a swing animation with a punch, even though I got the sound effects.
Also discovered that I really, truly, absolutely have to be sure to turn off Super Jump between missions. Yikes! Minus 50% TH is murder.
Picked up the Advisor badge for SKing people — which is cool, but so not Velvet. But I ran across the Vigorous badge while jumping between shops to sell DOs, and that’s pretty Velvet all right, so it replaces Pwnz as my handle.
And, cool beans, the shops in IP (the Science one, at least) sell SOs and sell the extended set of DOs, so I could pick up jump and taunt DOs. Nice.
A very successful evening. And it was nice to be able to do it (part of the time, at least!) with Margie.
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***Dave Does the Game
Hey…Glad I could help on the Badge thing.
Yeah…P-Siren’s ranged shot does no Agrro at all, Very nice. MoFo’s Aggro’s but does lots of damage. I guess that is part of the trade off.
And If you had been in the same room at the time. It would have saved one P-Siren death.
P-Siren learned the hard way that TP and recall *can* get interupted.
One MoFo death. And, yes. I’ve gone from “Hey, I can stick around at least one more AAAGRRRGGGHHH (thud)” to being perhaps overly efficient at bugging out. Though I think I managed to cover you guys half-decently when we got into trouble after the effort at TPing ourselves over.
Like Captain America and Batman, I need to keep a better eye on my sidekicks …
Well, the Avocet did offer to help out, but was rebuffed.
I got the Advisor badge yesterday, too!
I’m using Excel to keep track of what Enhancements are available from which stores and contacts. Turns out that my contacts (those who have Enhancements I can use) have all the “named” DO Enhancements (Crowley’s Ring, Nectanebo’s Scrol, etc.), the shops in Skyway and Steel have some of those and some “generic” (Amulet, Circlet), and the shops in IP and Talos have everything, DO and SO. And, of course, at level 25, I can’t even use the Enhancements from Sky and Steel anymore.
I also keep track of which contacts now sell a full range of Inspirations, in case I need to stock up on Break Free Insps.
And I have so many contacts, I now keep a list of what missions are available, and whether they’re timed.
I get a bit obsessive about record-keeping sometimes.
I thought it was just going to be Margie and me. 🙂
Besides, you’ve managed to outlevel us, you Banished Pantheon-nemesis you.
Margie has a great document she’s put together on just that subject — she should send it to you (and I should HTMLize it to post up here).