{"id":1482,"date":"2009-12-12T20:40:25","date_gmt":"2009-12-13T02:40:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/heroes\/?p=1482"},"modified":"2009-12-12T20:40:25","modified_gmt":"2009-12-13T02:40:25","slug":"co-passive-aggressive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/heroes\/2009\/12\/co-passive-aggressive.html","title":{"rendered":"CO: Passive Aggressive"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Force of Will<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Hrm.<\/p>\n

So I’ve been doing more looking at various builds, whilst playing CO solo (what little duo play we’ve been doing has been on a hypothetically mysterious and intermittent game that I can’t talk about).\u00a0 My current solo character is Force of Will<\/a>, a TK blades character.<\/p>\n

I’m reading through guides, and reviewing build suggestions, and making notes, and figuring out what I want to take at different levels.\u00a0 And I finally got to another power level with her, and glanced at those notes, and …<\/p>\n

… and WTF?<\/p>\n

All the guides are all, “Hey, gotta have that Passive Defensive early and often,” followed by bitter debates about which is best (which is, as far as I can gather from the tenor of the debates, Anything But Lightning Reflexes).\u00a0 Well, that’s all well and fine, but the TK Blades guides are also all full of debates about which is better, Ego Form or Shadow Form — most people prefer the latter, but there’s a vocal and vehement minority that argues the former.\u00a0 And, hey, there was Ego Form, ready for selection.\u00a0 I should give that a try …<\/p>\n

… um …<\/p>\n

It’s a slotted Offensive Passive … and I can have only one slotted Passive<\/a> thing at a time.\u00a0 Which I choose depends on … which build I’ve selected.<\/p>\n

So, to have both the oh-so-critical Defensive Passive, and the oh-so-critical Offensive Passive, I have to be also toggling between builds.<\/p>\n

Let me say, that’s probably one of my least favorite bits of CO thus far.\u00a0 Okay, I like the variety of approaches you can have, both within a framework and from outside (vs. the comparatively much more channeled CoX power choices).\u00a0 But I find the Build mechanic to be one more decision point than I want to have to make.\u00a0 And so I’ve been basically ignoring it — only to discover now that, um, I actually need to make use of it if I’m going to achieve golden heroism?<\/p>\n

Now, I’m sure that people do get soloing and making that choice.\u00a0 And I’ll get along without it.\u00a0 I just find it … annoying.\u00a0 Part is my own ignorance, part is the lack of decent player education. Yeah, if I was using a character builder program, I’d have probably figured this out, but …<\/p>\n

Harrumph.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Hrm. So I’ve been doing more looking at various builds, whilst playing CO solo (what little duo play we’ve been doing has been on a hypothetically mysterious and intermittent game that I can’t talk about).\u00a0 My current solo character is Force of Will, a TK blades character. I’m reading through guides, and reviewing build suggestions, … Continue reading “CO: Passive Aggressive”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[14,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1482","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-champions-online","category-character-design"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/heroes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1482","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/heroes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/heroes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/heroes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/heroes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1482"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/heroes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1482\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1487,"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/heroes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1482\/revisions\/1487"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/heroes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1482"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/heroes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1482"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/heroes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1482"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}