{"id":721,"date":"2006-10-09T06:34:03","date_gmt":"2006-10-09T12:34:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/heroes\/wp\/2006\/10\/actually-played\/"},"modified":"2006-10-09T06:34:03","modified_gmt":"2006-10-09T12:34:03","slug":"actually-played","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/heroes\/2006\/10\/actually-played.html","title":{"rendered":"Actually &#8230; played!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Got on again two or three times over the weekend for some quick <strong>Torchy\/Hildy<\/strong> action.  Managed, last evening, to die three times.  Rrg.<\/p>\n<p>Part of that&#8217;s rustiness, but part of it is simply the T\/H dynamic.  Psi-clone and Amorpha were an awesome team, but part of their strength in their Controller\/Scrapper dynamic, was their flexibility.  Both could solo.  Both could duke it out with the bad guys &#8212; A. definitely better, but PC, too, for a while, especially with a bit of prep and with the pets out.<\/p>\n<p>Torchy\/Hildy, not so much.  A lot of what we do depends on Hildy maintaining control over the mobs, so that Torchy can blast &#8217;em but good.  If Hildy&#8217;s bite me aura drops, or she drops altogether (even with her Phoenix rez), Torchy is very, very, very squishy.   She has a few mitigations there, and the Epic Powers will help, too, but at the moment, she is not a melee type of girl.<\/p>\n<p>So we&#8217;re at 40, and what sorts of folks are we running across but Knives of Artemis (meaning Torchy is as likely to be spotted and targeted as Hildy, and Hildy&#8217;s mobility to run up and grab aggro is compromised) and Malta (meaning Sappers can take down Hildy&#8217;s bite-me, or very bad people with very big guns can decide to shoot Torchy, or those damned web grenades can ground her).<\/p>\n<p>Hence, three deaths in two hours.<\/p>\n<p>Some revised tactics are in order.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Got on again two or three times over the weekend for some quick Torchy\/Hildy action. Managed, last evening, to die three times. Rrg. Part of that&#8217;s rustiness, but part of it is simply the T\/H dynamic. Psi-clone and Amorpha were an awesome team, but part of their strength in their Controller\/Scrapper dynamic, was their flexibility. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/heroes\/2006\/10\/actually-played.html\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Actually &#8230; played!&#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],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-721","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\/721","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=721"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/heroes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/721\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/heroes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=721"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/heroes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=721"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/heroes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=721"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}