Villainish Drift

The tally of 50’s has increased by 1. Radi dinged 50 the other day and I’ve been remiss on mentioning it. And she dinged flat on her ass. Let me explain. I have a screene of her dinging, while getting knocked on her ass by a PPD Awakened (aka PB’s ala villain group on the villain side). The screenie of this may or may not get posted – it depends on how badly I wish to humiliate myself.

Midnight’s also back for a second incarnation. This time she’s an elec/nrg Brute, which as of level 5 or so, is insanely fun to play. For me, she’s kinda trampy looking, but it somehow fits her. Scantily clad in black, thigh-high boots and purple hair.

And in other news, I’m still in love with Night. I forgot how much fun she was to play. I know I’ve said that before, but I can’t help but repeat that again. I ran her through the third respec last night, only had her in Nova form for travelling (I still can’t quite get the hang of SJ and Teleport, though I was using TP to put her in a mob then hitting Mire with Inky Aspect running. Fun stuff). And she didn’t die once. There may have been one or two others that didn’t die once, but for the uber squishie AT? Not shabby.

It was funny having someone call out “I see a White Dwarf”, and because of who it was that said it I didn’t believe him. Then I turn the corner and see…. a White Dwarf. Didn’t phase me in the least, took him out easy. Voids, Quants and Nova’s/Dwarves don’t seem to bother Night as mush as they do when I play Star. I know it’s because of the differences between PB’s and ‘Shades. But dayum.

Meanwhile, I need to take an evening and work on sorting out salvage, recipes and whatnot on the V-side. Both base enhancement bins are bursting, and all of my villain alts are stuffed to the gills with salvage, recipes, and more salvage. A chunk of the recipes are invention enhancements that I’m hanging onto to either sell until I get that badge on Rae, or to craft to work on /those/ badges. Now if I could get a frelling costume drop. Grrrr. I have yet to see A. Single. Frelling. Costume. Drop. This has me pissed beyond belief.

With Inventions and the Auction Houses in full swing, one badger has been busy, busy, busy. Once Stormy gets as many of the new badges as I see fit, then Rae will undergo the same treatment. I can only focus on one set of badges or I’ll go insane.

And lemme tell ya, the selling and crafting badges are enough to drive anyone insane. I have no clue how an ingame friend churned through all of the selling badges in one multi-hour sitting. (Okay, I do have an idea, they’re far far more dedicated than me.) And, yes, the last selling badge is for selling 7000 items. Stormy’s hovering around 2500 total transactions currently for comparison.

Meanwhile I took Night out for a spin the other day and had forgotten just how much fun it is to play a human-form WS. If it weren’t for the fact that her only way to fly is through Nova form, I’d drop it entirely. I may drop the power slots in Nova form to base and add a couple fly enhancers to the form itself. Because, dayum. I forgot how much fun it was to jump in a pack, pop Mire (normally Orbiting Death would be on at this point, but I was exemped to 39/40 for this session and unable to use Orbiting Debt), toggle on Inky Aspect and watch the mobs stagger around while causing them to faceplant. Oh, and Fluffy. Let’s not forget Fluffy. *grin* Definitely need to respec this gal to a more straightforward human form at some point with some possible IO/set love. Resistances and bonuses are probably good things for her.

Radi’s finally graduated to running the RSF and dinged 47 yesterday. Running the RSF with Radi is quite different than running it with Rae. Everything’s still purple to Radi and I tend to faceplant with her more than I do with Rae. That should change soon as she gets closer to 50, I also need to crank out a respec build for Radi that’s more RSF friendly.

Part of me doesn’t want to respec Radi since ice/rad is a fun build to play, but I have to remind myself that she was built mainly for TF’s and whatnot. I just happened to have managed to like the powerset combo /a lot/.

Storm is officially a Medic. A blaster with healing badges is amusing as all get out, but since she’s my badger, it’s only appropriate for her. Breaking 330 without any of the Halloween badges is looking so damn tempting. *smirk*

I’m sitting here, having found a way to get Rae her damage badges, though it’s a slower and more tedious way than for Stormy, and I was thinking of how she could at least start on the healing badges. After all, I’ve only used 3 of the 4 pools on her, and she does have a pet. Pets take damage and pet heals count for the healing badges. So. I’m seriously thinking of giving her Aid Other so she can have Seymour stand in the fires in Mercy to take damage.

The only drawback to this? I was planning on taking the Mu pet at 47, so Grant Invisibility would have to go to make room for Aid Other. This would be the one power change that I seem to use her respecs on. And if I can wait til 47 I can sell all of her soon to be stale enhancements and buy fresh 50’s.