{"id":450,"date":"2006-02-10T05:39:55","date_gmt":"2006-02-10T11:39:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/heroes\/wp\/2006\/02\/slog-between-dimensions\/"},"modified":"2006-02-10T05:39:55","modified_gmt":"2006-02-10T11:39:55","slug":"slog-between-dimensions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/heroes\/2006\/02\/slog-between-dimensions.html","title":{"rendered":"Slog between dimensions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ran the Hero-side Pocket-D missions last night (starting a scosh late) with <strong>Amorpha<\/strong>, <strong>Mister Thorne<\/strong>, and BD&#8217;s Gasta Bas.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/heroes\/images\/2006-02-09_amorpha-thorne.jpg\" height=\"403\" width=\"354\" title=\"Hey, we know that couple ... or do we?\" class=\"right\"\/>Death rode on our shoulders the entire way, and, unfortunately, was as busy pecking on our ears as anyone else&#8217;s.<br \/>\nProblems we had:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>There were three of us.  Unbalanced.  And because we&#8217;d started on Amorpha&#8217;s mission set, the only thing we could do is SK Mr. Thorne to her, and leave Gasta to hang back and spam heals.  And, oh, yeah, die a lot from various Arachnos AoE and cone attacks.\n<li>Mr. Thorne is way too squishy for all the aggro he draws.\n<li>Though fighting at level 47, Mr. Thorne lacked the powers that would come between where he is (17) and there, including some added firepower for the Mercs and better buffs for his team.  As a result, his contribution to combat was pitiful &#8212; mostly distractions and horribly slow healing.<br \/>\nSo &#8230; tired &#8230; of that build.<\/p>\n<li>Amorpha had serious &#8220;invis&#8221; problems from the bad guys, which didn&#8217;t help her combat abilities any.<\/ol>\n<p>So the standard order of combat in the Arachnos part of the mission arc was &#8230;<br \/>\n&#8230; We suddenly realize GB has been taken down, along with one or two of the boys.<br \/>\n&#8230; The rest of the boys go down faster than I can recreate them.<br \/>\n&#8230; Mister Thorne goes down.<br \/>\n&#8230; Amorpha survives about half the time.<br \/>\nMercifully, PocketD has its own healing areas, and plenty of chicklets to buy.  It also has some super-buffs to sell, though they didn&#8217;t seem to help as much as we needed.<br \/>\n*sigh*  Finished around 11.  Thorne had dinged, Amorpha had gone up a pip, GB was still in debt.<br \/>\nStill have the villain mishes to do &#8212; and Amorpha&#8217;s already observed that 11 of her powers go &#8220;grey&#8221; when she exemps down to our level.  Should be entertaining.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ran the Hero-side Pocket-D missions last night (starting a scosh late) with Amorpha, Mister Thorne, and BD&#8217;s Gasta Bas. Death rode on our shoulders the entire way, and, unfortunately, was as busy pecking on our ears as anyone else&#8217;s. Problems we had: There were three of us. Unbalanced. And because we&#8217;d started on Amorpha&#8217;s mission &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/heroes\/2006\/02\/slog-between-dimensions.html\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Slog between dimensions&#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-450","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\/450","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=450"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/heroes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/450\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/heroes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=450"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/heroes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=450"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/heroes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=450"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}