So, what have I been doing?

Aside from that nifty character ranking on the side of the blog there. (Thanks, Keen!!!)

You can see over there that I've gotten a few levels, including getting the re-made Andromeda Balan to 50. A lot of that was AE farms, both before and after the Posi-rant. I had a Widow that got into her 30s with AE farms, too, but she got deleted because: 1) I felt NO attachment to her since nothing but her first 10 levels was gotten outside the AE, and 2) after trying to level an elec/dark corr, I realized that I do NOT like red side. I just don't. For one thing, pretty much all the teaming red-side right now is AE farm. Yeah, I know. It has its place. But that's not all I want to do, especially at level 15 on a team struggling slowly, SLLLLOOOWWWLLYYY through a boss farm. It's too bad, because the elec/dark was pretty nifty. Electric is not the most damaging set, but how cool does the red lightening look, especially paired with all the dark effects? I 'll tell you how cool, REALLY cool. I might try that again sometime soon.

I made an AR/Energy that's been a lot of fun, both for game-play and RP. "Skaza" means "destruction" in Slovak, by the way. I remade Roxi Toxic for probably the 10th time, this time as a defender. Rad/rad, of course. She's 15, and she's running into that same AE problem that I ran into red-side, only not quite as much.

I've been running a lot of task forces with the 50s, mostly Andy and Fyre, and using the merits. For Andy, to give her an LoTG +recharge and a few other tweeks, and with Fyre, I've used the merits to buy expensive recipes, like the Numina unique, and selling them. Fyre has... quite a bit of influence, even after I got her the field crafter accolade. If anyone tells you that you can make money doing that, they're lying to you. Badly. Hit them with something and run away. It's a cruel, terrible lie. Okay, maybe before i14 and crazy salvage/market prices you could, but not anymore. Not even close. Mo's been earning merits in Hami raids, and has a few new pieces like a LoTG and a Numina unique. Empathing for the raids is not hard, and there usually isn't an overabundance of emps at raids, so I've been taking her instead of Fyre.

I've been thinking of making another new alt, but aside from another run at the elec/dark corruptor, I don't have any ideas at the moment, so I've mostly been running 50s for influence and merits when Vagz and I aren't working on one of our duos, either the characters that are meant to be duos or impromptu duos.

Those runs with the 50s on TFs, though, have been on well-organized teams, mostly with the KiTTY channel. I did do a PuG ITF out of boredom the other day, though. That was a mistake. I've been running ITFs with people from the KiTTY channel, on the maximum difficulty, and we've been finishing in just slightly over an hour on average. The PuG ITF took 2h37. Yep.

i15 should be out soon, and I am looking forward to it, just for the new faces. Like Keen said in one of his blog posts, several of my characters will be getting "plastic surgery." OOC, of course. Off the top of my head, both Andy and Skaza will be getting new faces, and possibly several others.

Briefly, a word on my opinion about the Going Rogue expansion. I don't have one. Why? Because we know virtually nothing about it. I have a very much "wait-and-see" attitude about it. Honestly, though? I think a lot of people are going to be disappointed, because they're running away with the speculations. My take on the announcement is that you won't be able to take existing characters "rogue," especially since the announcement mentions a "parallel universe." I don't think current CoH or CoV characters will be able to interact with the Going Rogue universe, except maybe in PvP or co-op zones, just like our current characters in CoH and CoV can't. Yes, absolutely, I could be wrong. But I won't be disappointed or even surprised if I am. Still, though. Wait and see.