{"id":366,"date":"2005-12-01T06:31:09","date_gmt":"2005-12-01T12:31:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/heroes\/wp\/2005\/12\/swing-your-partners\/"},"modified":"2005-12-01T06:31:09","modified_gmt":"2005-12-01T12:31:09","slug":"swing-your-partners","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/heroes\/2005\/12\/swing-your-partners.html","title":{"rendered":"Swing your partners"},"content":{"rendered":"

Got both Mister Thorne<\/strong> and Undone <\/strong>up to 15 last night, so we’re good to go for the Strike Force this weekend.
\nCame, ironically, to the conclusion that the pairing isn’t working terribly well, gameplay-wise. “The Boys” (my soldiers) are range-based. Undone needs to be up close and personal. I get stuck in-between, with a very <\/em>limited-range heal, and not much defense, and, if I’m being most effective, running back and forth between Undone on the front lines and my Boys further back.
\nResult? While it works okay to set up a “Tar Patch on the Corner” counter-ambush for the bad guys, Undone’s facing increasing difficulties surviving after her alpha strike on the baddies to get back to said corner. I can send the Boys forward to initiate the attack, but that lets the enemy choose the ground. Or I can start things off with a debuff, and draw all the fire myself. None of these succeeds joyfully.
\nPlus I’m beginning to recall one of the reasons I dropped Taste of Honey <\/strong>— the Dark secondary is just glacially slow. Needing to hit people to heal is annoying, too.
\n(And I need to do some more reading on effective control of the Boys — way too many times that I direct them at a target, and then, when they’re done, they just put their hands in their pockets and wait for my command to shoot the next bloody bad guy, okay?<\/em>)
\nSo here’s the current thought, after the Strikeforce — leave MT\/U as they are for a bit, and focus on Eliza Dee<\/strong> (the Champions version) and Mistress Bacchante<\/strong>. Get them up to 15 (or wherever we are after the SF). Then swap. Send the Brawler with the Stalker. Send the Dominator with the Mastermind. See how that works.
\nA long-term plan, but it should work. Unfortunately, ED(C) is far enough advanced that the same problem I had with ED(V) — a delay in travel power to 16 because I took Bonecrusher instead of Air Superiority — may turn out to happen there, too. We’ll see. I might be able to make it work.
\nThe unfortunate part of all this is that we’ve not been spending much, if any, time on our Virtue Villains, and Mister Ravenous<\/strong> and Charity at Home<\/strong> have been sadly neglected. Of course, the Elitists haven’t been all that active, as a group, either, so it’s not like we’re letting the Home Team down.
\nWe’ll get back to them. Eventually. It’s hard to keep a good (or Bad) alt down.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Got both Mister Thorne and Undone up to 15 last night, so we’re good to go for the Strike Force this weekend. Came, ironically, to the conclusion that the pairing isn’t working terribly well, gameplay-wise. “The Boys” (my soldiers) are range-based. Undone needs to be up close and personal. I get stuck in-between, with a … Continue reading “Swing your partners”<\/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],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-366","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-character-design"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/heroes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/366","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=366"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/heroes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/366\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/heroes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=366"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/heroes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=366"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/heroes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=366"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}