{"id":344,"date":"2005-11-11T07:09:46","date_gmt":"2005-11-11T13:09:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/heroes\/wp\/2005\/11\/two-by-two-into-the-arc\/"},"modified":"2005-11-11T07:09:46","modified_gmt":"2005-11-11T13:09:46","slug":"two-by-two-into-the-arc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/heroes\/2005\/11\/two-by-two-into-the-arc.html","title":{"rendered":"Two by two into the Arc"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We&#8217;re trying our darnedest to get <strong>Psi-clone <\/strong>and <strong>Amorpha <\/strong>into the Omega Level Clearance (the Body Snatchers, I think is the formal title) story arc.  I&#8217;ve <em>finally <\/em>gotten the initial mish on it from the contact; Margie keeps trying added missions from him, as well as clearing other missions and stuff, to (as yet) no avail.<br \/>\nStill, plenty of Rikti goodness last night.  Died, both of us, twice, on the same mission (each of ours &#8212; unsynced, so we didn&#8217;t get to both take mission credit on one).  Mistakes on our part &#8212; rushing in and not having the sense to rush back out.<br \/>\nPC is being hampered a bit by<\/p>\n<ul type=a)\n\n<li>&#8230; frelling Drones that both spot through the Invis and, themselves, don&#8217;t render on my screen until I&#8217;m practically in their visual range, too (is that a graphics setting problem or just the way it is?  I can certainly see the Headmen and other full-size Rikti earlier on, and the Drones will reticle &#8212; they just aren&#8217;t visible until it&#8217;s nearly too late).  Lesson:  &#8220;Walk carefully, Grasshopper &#8230;&#8221; (a\/k\/a, &#8220;Don&#8217;t get cocky, kid&#8221;).<\/p>\n<li>&#8230; the lack of perma-Hasten.  Still have the power on PC, but it&#8217;s good for only about 2\/3 the time, and the rest of the time I feel sluggish. That becomes a real issue when the balloon goes up and I need to pump A with heals <em>and <\/em>heal myself <em>and <\/em>call out Fred and his cousins to run interference <em>and<\/em> blind anything that moves <em>and<\/em> &#8230;<br \/>\nHrm.  An AoE control might be of use.  I might have to look into that Flash power I&#8217;ve never taken.<\/p>\n<li>&#8230; the lack of status proection.  I just picked up my &#8220;Restrained&#8221; badge last night, meaning I&#8217;ve been held\/slept\/mezzed a whole bunch.  Not to mention (thanks again, Drones) knocked on my ass too often.  Especially when A goes down and they all instantly turn their firepower on <em>me<\/em> &#8230; So I need to pop Breakfrees more, and I need to look into Acrobatics, and &#8230;<\/ul>\n<p>Hrm.  Maybe a good thing I still have a trial respec.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We&#8217;re trying our darnedest to get Psi-clone and Amorpha into the Omega Level Clearance (the Body Snatchers, I think is the formal title) story arc. I&#8217;ve finally gotten the initial mish on it from the contact; Margie keeps trying added missions from him, as well as clearing other missions and stuff, to (as yet) no &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/heroes\/2005\/11\/two-by-two-into-the-arc.html\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Two by two into the Arc&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":352,"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":[6,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-344","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-character-design","category-gameplay"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/heroes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/344","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\/352"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/heroes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=344"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/heroes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/344\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/heroes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=344"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/heroes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=344"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/heroes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=344"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}