{"id":1733,"date":"2010-09-06T20:47:53","date_gmt":"2010-09-07T03:47:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/heroes\/?p=1733"},"modified":"2010-09-06T20:47:53","modified_gmt":"2010-09-07T03:47:53","slug":"cox-dual-pistols-in-review","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/heroes\/2010\/09\/cox-dual-pistols-in-review.html","title":{"rendered":"CoX: Dual Pistols in review"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_1735\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1735\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/heroes\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/2010-09-04_golden-judgement-and-velorio.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1735\" title=\"Golden Judgment and Velorio\" src=\"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/heroes\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/2010-09-04_golden-judgement-and-velorio-300x268.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"268\" srcset=\"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/heroes\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/2010-09-04_golden-judgement-and-velorio-300x268.jpg 300w, https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/heroes\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/2010-09-04_golden-judgement-and-velorio.jpg 720w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 85vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1735\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Golden Judgment (the Tank) and Velorio (the Dual Pistols Blaster)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>This isn&#8217;t going to be any <a href=\"http:\/\/wiki.cohtitan.com\/wiki\/Dual_Pistols\">detailed guide<\/a> to <a href=\"http:\/\/goingrogue.cityofheroes.com\/en\/game-info\/powersets\/dual-pistols.html\">the Dual Pistols power<\/a> &#8212; more scribbling down my own notes for next time with Dual Pistols. \u00a0I ran <strong>Velorio<\/strong> through Going Rogue up to 20 with the set.<\/p>\n<p>As a set, DP is lovely. \u00a0The animations (some of which vary from use to use of a given power) are lovely. \u00a0Sometimes a bit much (throwing around ammo in all directions seems wasteful, vs. a flame blaster&#8217;s AoE attack), but overall quite nice, from the fancy-twirling Dual Wield, to the deliberately lethal Executioner&#8217;s Shot.<\/p>\n<p>The biggest nuance with the power set is <strong><em>Swap Ammo<\/em><\/strong>. \u00a0You can, in theory (and, perhaps, for RP) go without the power. \u00a0Velorio \u00a0didn&#8217;t, which meant I had to decide in any given combat (or even during it, since it&#8217;s a quick swap) between:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Basic bullets<\/strong>: \u00a0baseline Lethal damage, chance of knockback\/down. \u00a0The knockback chance made it less attractive to me, duoing with a Tank. \u00a0For a soloist &#8212; or someone who wants basic bullets for their own character&#8217;s artistic integrity &#8212; it&#8217;s fine.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Cryo bullets<\/strong>: \u00a0partial Cold damage, +slow. \u00a0I believe the damage is a little less than basic bullets. I tended to use these when we were being mobbed by more powerful opponents &#8212; slowing their attacks relative to us was a force multiplier.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Incendiary bullets<\/strong>: \u00a0partial Fire damage, DoT. \u00a0Net-net, a higher damage set, albeit with DoT. \u00a0I tended to use this when we were plowing through lower-level types.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Chemical bullets<\/strong>: \u00a0partial Toxic damage, damage debuff. \u00a0I tended to use these when going up against a boss &#8212; anything to lessen the damage the Tank was having to stand up to would keep my delicate little Blaster in better health.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>There&#8217;s a lot I haven&#8217;t played with in the set &#8212; I skipped the first quickie power, as well as Suppressive Fire, and, at level 20, hadn&#8217;t hit my snipe yet, etc. \u00a0But it&#8217;s nicely done. \u00a0I enjoyed it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This isn&#8217;t going to be any detailed guide to the Dual Pistols power &#8212; more scribbling down my own notes for next time with Dual Pistols. \u00a0I ran Velorio through Going Rogue up to 20 with the set. As a set, DP is lovely. \u00a0The animations (some of which vary from use to use of &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/heroes\/2010\/09\/cox-dual-pistols-in-review.html\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;CoX: Dual Pistols in review&#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_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[15,5,7],"tags":[20],"class_list":["post-1733","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-city-of-heroes","category-gameplay","category-resources-rules","tag-coh"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/heroes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1733","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=1733"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/heroes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1733\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1736,"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/heroes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1733\/revisions\/1736"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/heroes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1733"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/heroes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1733"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/heroes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1733"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}