{"id":16,"date":"2005-02-12T21:34:18","date_gmt":"2005-02-13T03:34:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/heroes\/wp\/2005\/02\/city-of-heroes-update\/"},"modified":"2005-02-12T21:34:18","modified_gmt":"2005-02-13T03:34:18","slug":"city-of-heroes-update","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/heroes\/2005\/02\/city-of-heroes-update.html","title":{"rendered":"City of Heroes update"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Well, since Champion just went down, current update &#8230;<br \/>\nI&#8217;ve narrowed my playtime to just four characters (which is still too many for quick advancement, but there you go).<br \/>\n<strong>Velvet <\/strong>is still my highest, at 11.  She&#8217;s beginning to get a high enough level that she needs to start adventuring in scarier places, like Steel Canyon, or (again) Perez Park.  She&#8217;s still a high-power punch-em gal, though she&#8217;s now had a couple of very bad team experiences in the Hollows that have given her a bit of debt.<br \/>\n<strong>Snipehunter, <\/strong>my previous hard luck case, is up to 9.  Been on some good teams with him.  The &#8220;snipe&#8221; power has come in quite handy.  <strong>Torchielle<\/strong>, his fire-based sister, is up to 7, and I still like her best.<br \/>\n<strong>Psi-Clone<\/strong> has been the most fun, though, between his &#8220;hey, you, you now hate your fellow bad guy, so go whale on him&#8221; powers and his blind and his not-insubstantial spectral damage &#8230; plus, in case folks might think he&#8217;s a mean SOB, he&#8217;s doing heal stuff for parties, too, so that&#8217;s all good.  Endurance-draining, to be sure, but a good excuse to stay far, far away from the action &#8230;<br \/>\nMission-wise, it&#8217;s been a mixed bag past few.  Had fun with Avocet on a larger mission, and with a number of Stan&#8217;s characters (with a number of mine).  Stan and I SKed to Doyce and Jackie last night, which taught us both a lot about the fine art of weakling blaster\/controllers and how to support the big guns effectively without being a target yourself.<br \/>\nI&#8217;ve had good teams and bad teams, the latter defined as either (a) not well managed, with nobody directing or nobody listening to direction, and\/or (b) going up into missions that were way, way, way too overpowered for us, leading to grizzly deaths.  And, of course, there&#8217;s the definition of insanity, which is trying the same thing twice, thinking the results will be different &#8230;<br \/>\n&#8230; but when it works &#8212; when you battle through, when the plan is followed, when it succeeds even after it all goes to hell, when the bad guys fall like chaff or fall only after repeated, desperate pummeling &#8212; then, damn, it <em>works.  <\/em>And it&#8217;s a hell of a rush.<br \/>\nNo regrets so far.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well, since Champion just went down, current update &#8230; I&#8217;ve narrowed my playtime to just four characters (which is still too many for quick advancement, but there you go). Velvet is still my highest, at 11. She&#8217;s beginning to get a high enough level that she needs to start adventuring in scarier places, like Steel &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/heroes\/2005\/02\/city-of-heroes-update.html\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;City of Heroes update&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-gameplay"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/heroes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16","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=16"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/heroes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/heroes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/heroes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/heroes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}