{"id":2356,"date":"2012-12-09T18:53:58","date_gmt":"2012-12-10T01:53:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/heroes\/?p=2356"},"modified":"2012-12-09T18:53:58","modified_gmt":"2012-12-10T01:53:58","slug":"in-memorium-coh-pinnacle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/heroes\/2012\/12\/in-memorium-coh-pinnacle.html","title":{"rendered":"In Memorium – CoH – Pinnacle"},"content":{"rendered":"

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

<\/em>Pinnacle was an oddball server for us — some early legacy characters, plus one pair that really took off.<\/p>\n

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So Margie had a character named\u00a0Kazima<\/strong>\u00a0<\/em>on Champion, a Broadsword \/ Invuln scrapper. \u00a0She started out partnering with Honeygun<\/strong> for a while, but when Dave dropped that character (long story elsepost), Margie kept playing her. \u00a0Margie had a lot of fun with the toon, but eventually wasn’t playing her much. So we decided she had a sister …<\/p>\n

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…\u00a0Leilah<\/strong>, a Plant\/Storm controller. And Margie rerolled Kazima onto Pinnacle, and the rest was 36 levels of historic fun. The two of them were devas<\/em>, brethren spirits from an Arabian realm. They had sort of a Thor \/ Loki vibe, with plenty of vain bickering between the two. They were also pretty darned effective together.<\/p>\n

Plant Control was just a heck of a lot of enjoyment to use. I kind of wish I’d done more of that power set.<\/p>\n

Leilah was one of those annoying flying types who didn’t like to be on the ground. She took a lot of slots in Hover.<\/p>\n

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Honeygun<\/strong> has … a long story. \u00a0One of the earliest toons I rolled, she was a police woman whose cop boyfriend was killed and who thus turned vigilante. Assault Rifle\/Traps Blaster. \u00a0And, boy, did her power set suck. The “super-soaker” gun was ugly as sin (only later in the game could you choose between rifle designs), Gadgets\/Traps was a crappy secondary, and she just didn’t feel “super”, even teamed up as she did with\u00a0Kazima<\/strong><\/em> early days.<\/p>\n

Her bete noir was the Transcendence Trial<\/a>, an early days (level 12-15) task force. It was a bitch of a mission, for a variety of reasons (it was very easy for the whole thing to fail after a lot of time investment). A bunch of us ran that thing three or four times, with Honeygun one of the characters, and failed each time. \u00a0This made her very depressed, RP-wise … especially when we did it again, with Torchielle as my toon, and succeeded.<\/p>\n

Upset over her failure, she left Paragon and pursued mysterious occult ways to get her the power she thought she needed. When she came back (rerolled), she was the black-clad Taste of Honey,\u00a0<\/strong>a Dark\/Dark Defender. \u00a0And, of course, they actually won that trial, after which she realized what she had done and at what cost, and departed Paragon City again …<\/p>\n

… only coming back latest days as\u00a0Honey Gun<\/strong> on Pinnacle. \u00a0Never did much with her then (beyond getting her to 10, because Rifle Blaster is still a sucky power, even if you can have a nicer-looking rifle), but the story needed retelling.<\/p>\n

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Winter Storm Warning<\/strong>\u00a0was an Ice Blaster I got up to 22 (with Margie, I think). Don’t recall why I stopped running her, except that we didn’t frequent Pinnacle after a while. \u00a0Ike Berg<\/strong> was an Ice Tank, a big hulking guy with refrigeration units on his hands (which he would ice himself up with); cool concept what I would have loved to play except I really grew to hate playing tanks. \u00a0Djinn Taniq<\/strong> was a Storm Summoning Defender, who floated as was appropriate for a djinn; I loved her name. \u00a0Are You My Mummy\u00a0<\/strong> was my tribute (never played, just paper-dolled) to Stephen Moffat’s “The Empty Child” episode of\u00a0Doctor Who.<\/p>\n

Honorable Mention<\/span>:\u00a0Shishiko (again); Lord Maxwell (after Maxwell Lord); Mule One, Mule Two, Mule Three (generated by Margie using the beast sets for some sort of resource transfer, they just looked very cool).<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Continuing my series of City of Heroes characters, server by server … Pinnacle was an oddball server for us — some early legacy characters, plus one pair that really took off. So Margie had a character named\u00a0Kazima\u00a0on Champion, a Broadsword \/ Invuln scrapper. \u00a0She started out partnering with Honeygun for a while, but when Dave … Continue reading “In Memorium – CoH – Pinnacle”<\/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":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2356","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/heroes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2356","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=2356"}],"version-history":[{"count":15,"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/heroes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2356\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2688,"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/heroes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2356\/revisions\/2688"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/heroes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2356"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/heroes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2356"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/heroes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2356"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}