{"id":283,"date":"2005-09-25T18:21:53","date_gmt":"2005-09-26T00:21:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/heroes\/wp\/2005\/09\/synapse\/"},"modified":"2005-09-25T18:21:53","modified_gmt":"2005-09-26T00:21:53","slug":"synapse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/heroes\/2005\/09\/synapse.html","title":{"rendered":"Synapse"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"2005-09-25_synapse1.jpg\"Had a great Synapse TF this afternoon — “Task Force Dexterity.” Actually, that’s a misnomer. Very little dexterity. Very much firepower.
\nDinged from just over 19 to just over 21 (so no XP in the last few missions, but what the heck). And managed to grab 5 badges: Clockstopper, Gearsmasher, Keeper of the Peace, Synapse’s Cohort, and Tough.
\nI The team was a lot of blasters — Torchielle<\/strong>, Avocet, Lady Photon, and Toy Maker — along with one Defender (Agent Twelve), one Scrapper (Kazima<\/strong>), and one “Tank” (Peacebringer, actually, Emissary, who organized the soiree).
\nI had been concerned that we’d be too squishy a group, but it worked out great. Emissary kept the big baddies aggroed, Agent kept us healed, and the Damage-Dealers simply blasted\/slashed them into oblivion. No melee lasted too long except when we inadvertenly grabbed more one group.
\nSo, yeah, it’s a boring TF from one aspect (“ALL CLOCKWORK! ALL THE TIME!”), but it was a fun group of personalities, and we were so capable, especially once we got used to each other, that we practically took the final few mishes — including the Clockwork King himself — at a run. Even Babbage was a relative cakewalk (certainly no knockdown-dragout sort of endurance contest — we steadily just carved away at him and took him down with little problem).
\nEndurance was probably the biggest problem (aside from having to constantly step on Gears …). Early on I was suffering badly. Once I got some slots into Conserve Power and took Stamina, that stopped being a problem until we started running forward between encounters with no rest.
\nEven so, despite a few close calls, we only ever had one death, Emissary himself (done in by a Void Seeker — one cool thing about having a Kheldian along is the occasional different villain). But that was it.
\nFun. And profitable.
\nProbably the last Kazima\/Torchielle hurrah, though. We did a test (SKing) run of Torchy and Hildegard the other evening, and it just simply rocked the house (aggro management, baby)
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\nOfficial post by Emissary, with better pictures, is here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Had a great Synapse TF this afternoon — “Task Force Dexterity.” Actually, that’s a misnomer. Very little dexterity. Very much firepower. Dinged from just over 19 to just over 21 (so no XP in the last few missions, but what the heck). And managed to grab 5 badges: Clockstopper, Gearsmasher, Keeper of the Peace, Synapse’s … Continue reading “Synapse”<\/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":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-283","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-gameplay"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/heroes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/283","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=283"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/heroes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/283\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/heroes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=283"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/heroes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=283"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/heroes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=283"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}