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I'm forcing myself to actually type something here instead of clicking the little City of Heroes icon on my desk top and just playing the game. It's been awhile since there were actual words here instead of pretty pictures or random YouTubeness.

So, what have I been doing?

I've made and spent about 100 million influence on Fyre. I bought another purple or two since I've posted her enhancements. Also, I added the Performance Shifter unique to slot into Stamina, which I'll recommend for others and plan to duplicate for other characters. It adds 10 points of endurance every twenty seconds. I've sat there and watched my combat log, because I wasn't entirely sure how it would work, and that's what it does. Fyre's recharge rate went up another 10% due to her last purple, and her HP is over 1500. I put Build-Up on auto for a recent mission, and I'm amazed by how often I hear that noise when it goes off. I stood her still for a few minutes so I could watch, to prove to myself how quickly it recycles. Let's just say it's fast.

Lorelei hit 38 last week. She'd been running with Vagz's gravity/storm controller, Jack Royale, a bit, and also soloing and running with PuGs. She's efficent, but boring. I'm just not into controllers. I like my orange numbers too much. Granted, with the phantasm and the decoy, there is damage being done, but... it's just not the same. With the ill/rad combo, though, she's going to be incredibly useful when AVs start appearing more often. So, I plan to continue the slog to 50. Or at least 40 something. I'll probably be working with her most of Double XP Friday.

For some reason, not long ago, I developed a scrapper aversion. I don't know how it came up, I don't know what caused it, and I don't know exactly when it started. Maybe I was playing blasters/corruptors too much. Either way, I just couldn't bring myself to log in one of my scrappers and run around chasing mobs. Inevitably, especially since I have 3 on Virtue alone, I logged one in. I logged poor, neglected Cass (level 47, MA/Invul) in for awhile. Invulnerability. *sigh* You know what, though? She's not so bad. If I start funneling some cash her way, and add some IOs, she'll be a little less bad. Invulnerability will never been Regen or Willpower, but I don't necessarily feel the urge to delete her in frustration anymore.

Speaking of Regen, though, I also logged in Scarlette (level 36, Katana/Regen), and I logged her in right after I logged out Cass. Scarlette is slow. Katana is slow, compared to MA. Since she's Regen, she doesn't have the Fitness pool. Yes, I know, a lot of people still take Fitness with Regen. I didn't. Move on. But, anyway, she doesn't have Swift. To chase mobs, which scrappers often have to do, I have to turn on Sprint. *sigh* Maybe I should respec her. I hate doing respecs. Really, really hate it. I've been contemplating a respec on Fyre, to add Flares and remove Bonfire and/or Blazing Aura. Flares would give me a good spot to throw in more IOs for set bonuses, and add to the Defuryiance bonus. But, I really, really hate doing respecs, if I forgot to mention that. So, it's a possibility, but definately not a written-in-stone plan.

Elektra Callie, who I was concerned with getting to twenty last week, is now level 28. She's elec/elec. Just a few months ago, I deleted a level 20-something elec/elec blaster, because I was bored with her. I haven't been bored with Callie for a minute. She leveled up pretty quick, mostly on PuGs, a little solo. And then she slowed down. Why?

RP, of course!

(Virtue should have RP levels, along with security/threat levels. They get awarded by time spent standing in one spot, without the AFK warning appearing over your head, similar to the Firebase Zulu Security badge, and the Trolls Task Force badge. Bonus points if that time is spent in Pocket D, because you have to RP and avoid the crazy people.)

Callie's been working Vagabond Magus, Vagz's controller-Vagz, fire/force fields. The bubbles are the excuse-- uh, the reason I'm giving for Callie's blapper-ish turn. Well, that and that the electric secondary, like most of the blaster secondaries, lends itself to melee, a.k.a. blapping. She doesn't have her snipe yet, because electric has some good range, and because, at this point, the melee powers are just more useful for her. The RP's been interesting, too. Callie and Vagz get along well. Their powers mesh, and Vagz even picked up the medicine pool. They were both security level 25 when they started running together, and they even seemed to be about the same age. Then Callie found out that Vagz has three Hero IDs, one at the highest level possible, and another that may as well be. Oh, and he's a couple thousand years old. They're still getting along well enough, but Callie's intimidated, to say the least. I'm trying to keep her relatively angst-free and upbeat, but not obnoxiously, unbelievablely, or incomprehensively so. She's a little bit of a smart-ass, mostly because I can't stop myself, but I'm trying to keep the sarcasm to a minimum. She has little to be bitter about, but she also has a relatively low-level of worldliness and self-possession. She's a little bit of a babbler, mostly because I'm trying to keep her from lapsing into the brooding silences that Fyre seems to fall into.



I have little to say about yesterday's TF, mostly because the thought makes me want to drown my betta fish. (Yes, I know. But I have issues with even the idea of violence against animals, even as a jokingly semi-clever way of expressing my total frustration and hatred of Captain Freakin' Mako, whom I have no issues with the idea or the action of violence against.) I would like to try it again, with a different and larger team composition. I generally like to take Fyre on things like that. She is, probably pretty obviously, my Big Gun. But the team composition required some sort of support class, and also, since there was going to be RP involved, she cannot be anywhere near Masonry, both by her and my preference. If we'd have had one more either debuffer type or another damage dealer, I think we'd have been okay. However, we didn't, so we had... issues. And I have a serious hate on for Mender Silos, and I hope the "Coming Storm" of Issue 13 reveals him to be the evil-Nemesis, who we get to kill, a lot, and not the seeing-the-error-of-his-ways Nemesis, intending to inspire compassion.