{"id":2290,"date":"2012-11-28T21:07:30","date_gmt":"2012-11-29T04:07:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/heroes\/?p=2290"},"modified":"2012-12-09T18:51:35","modified_gmt":"2012-12-10T01:51:35","slug":"in-memorium-coh-virtue","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/heroes\/2012\/11\/in-memorium-coh-virtue.html","title":{"rendered":"In Memorium – CoH – Virtue"},"content":{"rendered":"

Continuing my series of City of Heroes characters, server by server …<\/em><\/p>\n

For some folks, Virtue was the<\/em> server, and it was almost always pretty crowded.<\/p>\n

Margie and I never got into Virtue as a pair, mainly because of the crowds\/lag. \u00a0I think we did some Red-side gameplay, but that was about it for the two of us.<\/p>\n

For me, though, it was the Server of Many Solo Toons. \u00a0Since what you want when you’re PUGging is<\/em> a crowd, it seemed the logical thing to do.<\/p>\n

On the other hand, since it is<\/em> a soloist server (for me), I don’t have many in-action screen caps, just (as of today) selection screens.<\/p>\n

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If there had ever been a solo toon that I would have gotten up to 50, it would have been\u00a0Miss Crackle<\/strong>. \u00a0Smiling and happy as the day is long, she was an Electrical\/Energy Blaster (thanks to her hi-tech suit), and was usually pretty welcome in most PUGs. \u00a0 I got her up to (the magical) 47, with no pictures. Crikey.<\/p>\n

\u00a0The third there is\u00a0Molly Morningway<\/strong>, a Fire\/Mental Manip Blaster (35). Her backstory was, essentially, she was Harry Dresden’s apprentice, Molly, taking on his mantle after his death, complete with fireballs and Jedi mind tricks, plus his trenchcoat, hat, and a set of chainmail from her mom. \u00a0I always enjoyed fire blasters (cf. Torchielle), and while she was a bit more difficult to PUG with (fire’s AoE can make for some exciting times), I still enjoyed it.<\/div>\n
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Lady Zebra<\/strong> was a hoot to play. Taken from a character I wrote up for a NaNoWriMo comic book tale, she was a cranky alien speedster who just happened to look like a terrestrial zebra. \u00a0She was a Martial Arts\/Regen scrapper (44), and I loved playing her. \u00a0The MA kicks done with hooves looked great, and while I usually played supporting roles in duos with Margie, Lady Z gave me a scrapperly outlet when I was feeling in the mood. \u00a0I also had a series of tell macros that made a lot of bad combat-related puns that centered on horses, hooves, stripes, etc. Again, a hoot.<\/p>\n

Again, one of the very few characters I ever took Super-Speed with — the necessary fit with the character, but a pain in city zones with a lot of vertical to them.<\/p>\n

(The one action kick with her above is, sadly, when she had “normal” boots, before the hooves pieces were available.)<\/p>\n

Alas, we never got a horse head costume piece, so she had to wear as long-faced a helmet as I could dig up.<\/p>\n

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Unlikely Ally<\/strong> was another fun concept — the Demon cast out to this world to do good deeds. I loved have a max-height hulked out guy with monster demon wings (a Fire\/Fire Tank, I think) on the front lines. \u00a0Never got him past 14, since soloing tanks is a bore, but I really liked his look.<\/p>\n

Another concept that never went far was Fr. Frank,<\/strong> a Catholic Priest turned Adventurer. \u00a0He was, of course, an Empathy\/Sonic Defender (18), though, sadly, about the time I rolled him people decided that having Healers on the team was passe. It wasn’t easy cobbling together something that looked like priestly gab, but I was pretty happy with it.<\/p>\n

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Honor the Flag<\/strong> was another tank — Super-Strength\/Invuln — but she got a decent amount of play. Never got her past 19, though, so she’ll be forever hanging out in Faultline. \u00a0Got a lot of complements on her uniform, which I thought was fun but nothing special.<\/p>\n

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These two were relative latecomers. \u00a0Tyger-Tyger<\/strong> (“… burning bright …”) was a Fire\/Fire Scrapper, which was fun, but I just simply rocked out over this guy’s look (the armor covering up some of the seam weaknesses of the tiger \/ fur skin. \u00a0He made 27.<\/p>\n

Woe Nelly<\/strong> was someone I just had to roll a toon for after I thought of the name. \u00a0Basically a fear demon, she was an Illusion\/Rad Controller. \u00a0She made it to 24.<\/p>\n

Honorable Mention<\/span> (built but never run up to 20): Ice of the Tiger, Rose Spectre, Winter’s Darts, Falcon Roja, Molly Mae, Mister Ravenous (another), Scritchy-Scratch, Selene, and Professor Puissant, Truly Unstable, The Blue Shield.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Continuing my series of City of Heroes characters, server by server … For some folks, Virtue was the server, and it was almost always pretty crowded. Margie and I never got into Virtue as a pair, mainly because of the crowds\/lag. \u00a0I think we did some Red-side gameplay, but that was about it for the … Continue reading “In Memorium – CoH – Virtue”<\/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":[6,15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2290","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-character-design","category-city-of-heroes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/heroes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2290","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=2290"}],"version-history":[{"count":17,"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/heroes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2290\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2304,"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/heroes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2290\/revisions\/2304"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/heroes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2290"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/heroes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2290"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/heroes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2290"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}