{"id":780,"date":"2006-12-04T15:36:22","date_gmt":"2006-12-04T21:36:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/heroes\/wp\/2006\/12\/balancing-act\/"},"modified":"2006-12-04T15:36:22","modified_gmt":"2006-12-04T21:36:22","slug":"balancing-act","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/heroes\/2006\/12\/balancing-act.html","title":{"rendered":"Balancing act"},"content":{"rendered":"

I find it amazing that a game that has:<\/p>\n

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  1. \n12 different archetypes<\/li>\n
  2. \n5,160 archetype combos in a given team (7! + 5!).<\/li>\n
  3. \nAt least 16 primary\/secondary combos for each of those ATs,\n<\/li>\n
  4. \nYou do the rest of that math<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    Plus, of course, the variations of powers, taken at different levels, plus all the power pools that are available (four extra plus an epic) over the 20-odd slots that each person gets. Plus enhancement choices. Plus play style and experience and tactics and native intelligence. Plus type of missions preferred and\/or pursued. Plus luck. Plus variations between PvP and PvE. Plus …<\/p>\n

    I find it more than amazing, I find it nigh miraculous<\/em> that the damned game has any<\/em> semblance of balance, let alone such that people can bitch all day on the boards over how their one favorite power remains \/ has been \/ will be nerfed (or just be underpowered compared to someone else’s).<\/p>\n

    I mean, really<\/em>, people. We’re talking variations in possibilities along the lines of “Which wavelength of blue do you think looks better on me, 4700 or 4012 Angstroms?”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    I find it amazing that a game that has: 12 different archetypes 5,160 archetype combos in a given team (7! + 5!). At least 16 primary\/secondary combos for each of those ATs, You do the rest of that math Plus, of course, the variations of powers, taken at different levels, plus all the power pools … Continue reading “Balancing act”<\/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":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-780","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-resources-rules"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/heroes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/780","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=780"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/heroes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/780\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/heroes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=780"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/heroes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=780"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/heroes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=780"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}