{"id":774,"date":"2006-12-03T00:04:47","date_gmt":"2006-12-03T06:04:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/heroes\/wp\/2006\/12\/worst-power-set-evah\/"},"modified":"2006-12-03T00:04:47","modified_gmt":"2006-12-03T06:04:47","slug":"worst-power-set-evah","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/heroes\/2006\/12\/worst-power-set-evah.html","title":{"rendered":"Worst &#8230; power set &#8230; evah"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Okay, that&#8217;s probably not fair.  Make it, &#8220;Worst &#8230; power set visuals &#8230; evah.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>I really hate Earth Control.  I mean, yeah, <em>let&#8217;s make the entire combat area into a completely visually blocked area!<\/em>  Woot!  <\/p>\n<p>This is <em>not<\/em> a criticism of anyone who&#8217;s taken the power &#8212; from what it sounds like, it&#8217;s pretty spiffy.  But it&#8217;s always bothered me, and it was even worse tonight when I did an unexpected run with <strong>Lynn<\/strong> SKing Mal&#8217;s Night Lizard, since, as a Scrapper, I was the one up-close-and-personal with the Bulbs of Rock Gone Mad.<\/p>\n<p>And what&#8217;s worse and more vision-blocking than the Earth Control graphics?  The Earth Control graphics when you&#8217;re up against Devouring Earth.  As they scale to the opponents, and make the entire map &#8230; well &#8230; like a Metastasized Termite Mound.<\/p>\n<p>I mean, I know Lynn was in there <em>somewhere<\/em> &#8212; she was reticling stuff, even if I couldn&#8217;t see it.  Or her.  And as long as she was, I could keep hitting.  I just didn&#8217;t know what I was hitting, or which direction it was, or if there was a better target next to it, or &#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Now, that having been said, running with Mal was, as always (and I hasten to point out) a delight &#8212; if for no other reason than he laughs at my bad puns (and, not incidentally, plays quite well).  And I would be willing to do so again, even with an Earth Controller (as NL is the same level as <strong>Idzuna<\/strong> and <strong>Unchained Path<\/strong>, that&#8217;s quite likely).  Good teaming always trumps bad power sets.<\/p>\n<p>But &#8230; damn &#8230; really wish the Devs would do something with the graphics on that power set. Because *I&#8217;ll* never run one of the critters, even if it&#8217;s as powerful as it sounds.  Just &#8230; too &#8230; annoying &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Okay, that&#8217;s probably not fair. Make it, &#8220;Worst &#8230; power set visuals &#8230; evah.&#8221; I really hate Earth Control. I mean, yeah, let&#8217;s make the entire combat area into a completely visually blocked area! Woot! This is not a criticism of anyone who&#8217;s taken the power &#8212; from what it sounds like, it&#8217;s pretty spiffy. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/heroes\/2006\/12\/worst-power-set-evah.html\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Worst &#8230; power set &#8230; evah&#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-774","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\/774","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=774"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/heroes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/774\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/heroes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=774"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/heroes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=774"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/heroes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=774"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}