{"id":177,"date":"2005-06-29T07:08:16","date_gmt":"2005-06-29T13:08:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/heroes\/wp\/2005\/06\/sisters-are-doin-it-for-themselves\/"},"modified":"2005-06-29T07:08:16","modified_gmt":"2005-06-29T13:08:16","slug":"sisters-are-doin-it-for-themselves","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/heroes\/2005\/06\/sisters-are-doin-it-for-themselves.html","title":{"rendered":"Sisters are doin&#8217; it for themselves"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Decided to go with the alts last night, so we dug out <strong>Sister Chinook<\/strong> and <strong>Toxic Sister<\/strong> and put them through their Level 10 paces.<br \/>\nMust &#8230; get &#8230; travel &#8230; powers &#8230; sooooooon &#8230;<br \/>\nActually, it was hard going at first.  Deaths.  Many (or more than usual, even discounting the recent grey-bop-fest) deaths.  Scrapper deaths are not uncommon.  Controller deaths, not so much so.<br \/>\nSC seems a lot squishier than PC, even though both are controllers (with Empathy) with single-target focuses.  Or maybe TS isn&#8217;t quite as  shock-and-awe-inspiring as Amorpha (yet).  Or maybe it was just the plethora of toxic vomit.<br \/>\nThat began to turn-around mid-evening, as SC dinged to 10, and I contemplated my new power.  I&#8217;d been planning on getting Resurrection (always popular at\/in parties), but I did some quick flipping through my file folder on SC and &#8230;<br \/>\n&#8230; hmmmm &#8230; maybe &#8230;<br \/>\nOh.  Yeah.  <em>Shiver<\/em>.  Very broad cone, decent range, minimal endurance, quick recharge, serious opponent slowing.<br \/>\nSuddenly, folks are running away.  Or charging me.  Or fleeing TS&#8217;s spines.  And suddenly the fire rate of the baddies goes way down.<br \/>\nAnd it stacks.  Between the slows of my other ice attacks, and TS&#8217;s toxins, those folks were hitting whatever slow cap there was.<br \/>\nMuch, much easier time of it.  Still died once (squishy, close quarters, too many obstacles blocking my LoS and powers, Shiver in particular), but more than made up for it.<br \/>\nWe went from struggling through Kings Row-level sewer mishes to street hunting around Steel Canyon.  Felt much better by the end of the evening.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Decided to go with the alts last night, so we dug out Sister Chinook and Toxic Sister and put them through their Level 10 paces. Must &#8230; get &#8230; travel &#8230; powers &#8230; sooooooon &#8230; Actually, it was hard going at first. Deaths. Many (or more than usual, even discounting the recent grey-bop-fest) deaths. Scrapper &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/heroes\/2005\/06\/sisters-are-doin-it-for-themselves.html\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Sisters are doin&#8217; it for themselves&#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":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-177","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-character-design"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/heroes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177","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=177"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/heroes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/heroes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=177"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/heroes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=177"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/heroes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=177"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}