Alt-aholic

[jdotmi]

So, since Kung Ru (Pinnacle version) is sitting on a mission set involving an AV, and I want to complete it before moving on to other missions, I had to play other characters over the weekend in City of Heroes. I can't group effectively on weekends due to my fucked up schedule, so I opted to avoid doing it until the week starts up.

Played Jared Infinity (also of Pinnacle) for the first time in months. Finished the Vazhilok Plague arc. Saw the new end room that has Dr. Vazhilok in it. Avoided the good doctor, however. Did his free respec to drop Hasten. He will get it back eventually, it's just pretty useless at his current level. I'd much rather spend that slot on another attack power. Which is what I did.

I created several new characters over the weekend. I even put some on servers I've never played on before. I made my lone defender on Victory, The Reigning Queen. Originally, I'd wanted the name "The Drama Queen", but it was taken. Big surprise there. :-p She's a Kinetics/Radiation Defender. I like Kinetics. I like Radiation Blast. She's fun to play. Moderately soloable, moderately groupable, although her utility in groups is not up to par with what it will be eventually.

On Virtue, I retooled Hydrogen Spark as a Fire/Fire Tanker. He's supposed to be the brother of satyr_mi's Liquid Oxygen (Ice/Ice Blaster). Didn't play him too much as I was sorta tired. I also made Gigaton Granny (Invulnerability/Energy Melee Tanker). She's freaky looking. Just over 5', max weight, leather top and pants with robotic arm gloves and banded boots. And a monocle, cuz ya gotta have a monocle.

I also made Agent Napalm (Fire/Radiation Controller) on Virtue. He's basically a power suit looking guy. He's built so far to be group oriented. I've got three missions I'm going to finish with him (street sweeping, he can do that solo at least) and then I'll probably just do groups with him. His damage output is pretty well non existant right now, although his holds are slotted for damage until probably at least 12th or 15th level. Then I'll start slotting them in a more balanced fashion. I really like him so far. I've specced him out a couple different ways in CoH Planner. The end result is going to be quite fun. It's just getting there (well, getting to 32) that will be a chore.

Although, in all reality, I really need to finish my missions with Kung Ru. I want to get her done with the AV arcs that crop up from 35 to 40 and get her up to 40 so I can deal with the crazyness that is the arcs from 40 to 50 and then get myself a Kheldian. I may even do another respec with her after all is said and done to get her a nice build that I can Exemplar with to do all the task forces that I have missed. Which, incidentally, would be all of them except for Numina's Task Force, which I did on Friday. I even got to petition for a missing badge since Jurassik doesn't seem to award his badge in the Task Force like he's supposed to.

Comments

[roane.livejournal.com]

Heehee. So I finally got sucked into this MMORPG too. I started playing on Friday. I imagine I'll spend most of today playing. Whee!

[jdotmi.livejournal.com]

Hehe. I have all sorts of fun on there. Sorta the highest I've ever gotten level wise in an MMORPG. AO doesn't count. :-p I made it into the mid 70's there, but that was out of 200. :-p Only made 32 or so in EQ. :-p

[margaras.livejournal.com]

Still, it's amazing to me how quickly you seem to level. I still don't have anything higher than 12. Mind you, I've gone lateral, building a lot of characters on many different servers, but they're mostly lvls 6-9.

[jdotmi.livejournal.com]

It seems so slow to me. A lot of my guildmates were already 40 and had quit before the level cap got raised to 50 with the first Issue that got released. :-p

My levelling speed took an incredibly sharp upturn with Ru when I hit 28 and got Instant Healing. It really is like playing in God Mode. :-p The only times I've died recently where when I was, quite literally, surrounded by massive throngs of things four levels or more higher than me.

I've been playing since the week the game launched. Kung Ru is 36, Jared Infinity is 15. All the rest of my characters are lower than 8th level. Once you've gotten to a certain level once it goes much faster with alts.