{"id":279,"date":"2005-09-20T02:22:11","date_gmt":"2005-09-20T08:22:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/heroes\/wp\/2005\/09\/because-what-i-need-is-another-alt\/"},"modified":"2005-09-20T02:22:11","modified_gmt":"2005-09-20T08:22:11","slug":"because-what-i-need-is-another-alt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/heroes\/2005\/09\/because-what-i-need-is-another-alt.html","title":{"rendered":"Because what I need is another alt …"},"content":{"rendered":"

At breakfast last Sunday, I didn’t have a book with me. Margie had her usual sheaf of CoH forum print-outs, so after tormenting myself with the Hypertension Induction Which Is The Perspective Section of the Sunday Paper, I borrowed some of what she’d brought to read for myself.
\nWhich was a mistake, of course, because doing that always makes me want to generate an alt. And the fact is, I already had one in mind …
\n\"screenshot_2005-09-20_amethyst.jpg\"Behold Amethyst Crown, exiled queen of another dimension, here on a path seeking honor and glory, the defeat of ancestral enemies of her people — and, perhaps, a way home. Broadsword\/Regen Scrapper, boo-yah.
\nI’d build a prototype of her on Triumph a while back, so I claim prior art to the Broadsword\/Regen Scrapper that Margie was playing with in Pinnacle (!) this evening. And after we did some Fazenda\/Araware, I went ahead and built her.
\nOh, yeah. Very nice. Carved a bloody path up one side of Galaxy City and down the other. Had her to 4 in no time …
\n… and got a blind request for a PUG. Well, what the heck, I thought.
\nUntil I got there, and found out it was a level 4-6 group, and the contents of mish were, for whatever reason, level 8 Clockworks. Yup, a good buttload of purple there.
\nThe team was rough to start out with — the 8 of us, of course — and there were some odd flakiness from a number of people at different times.
\nBut we persevered. And even though we died, individually, there were never any TPKs (close, at the beginning, but never quite), and folks had plenty of Awakens, and we had a kick-ass healer who, even at a low level, kept us going. And going. And going.
\nDing. Ding. Ding.
\nAC went up three full levels<\/em> over the course of the mish, and 3.5 pips into a 4th. The bad guys went from all purple to a few reds, a few oranges, and a lot of yellow and whites. Excellent.
\nI like her. I like the power set, primary and secondary. And I like the character (though I haven’t had much opportunity to RP her). I think she’s going to be a keeper.
\nAs much as any of my characters are keepers.
\nNow … when do we get cross-server transfer …?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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