Villainish Drift

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*

This is very fucking cool.

The temporary title’s already worn off of Rae, but getting a custom title by a dev is still damned nifty. Long story short, the elusive Arachnos Flier was spawned by a dev playing Ghost Widow earlier tonight. Tons of screenies were taken and need to be sorted through. GW ended up giving titles first to those who wound up getting Toy Collector back in December, (a random criteria I know) then ended up giving em to the group that stayed afterwards. Some were changed frequently and were frelling hilarious.

The event rundown will be posted tomorrow when I’m more awake.

After 756 hours in the Rogue Isles, Rae finally dinged the big 5-0. Keep in mind that her actual gametime is likely closer to 600-650 hours as she almost has all 6 held badges, and has the first 4 damage badges.

I don’t know who my next project is – I’m thinking of working on Frost til she dings 47 and can slot all of the nice, yummy Hami-O’s that have her name written on em.

Bah. I also need to remember to slot the 53’s Rae currently has in base storage. *inserts reminder here*

Raeleth is the latest addition to the stable of many, having started out as another possible name for Graevity. Only Raeleth is the twin sister of Raelith, even though Rae never started out with a twin, somehow these lasses are writing their own biographies without my permission. And they’re getting good at it.

I will say that Rael(eth) and Rae(lith) have a fondness for a particular power and that Rael is turning out to be a fun one as well. That also means I need to get my ass in gear and work on a build for her instead of picking any random power. I guess the fun part is going to be guessing which one is which. *evil smirk*

…or Recluse’s Strike Force, for those 45+. The strike force that was introduced as a contest on Test, yep that one. Only, this time it was toned down after the recent AV rollbacks. Even then, it’s still a corruptor festival, but a friend finished it on a team with no corruptors – bringing hope to the unwanted AT’s for the SF.

Some was starting a team in the early evening, Rae was a bar and a half away from 45 so I decided to pipe up and volunteer. After all, I’m not one to turn down someone wanting a domi for this beast. An hour later Rae dings (and ironically thats how long I said it would take) and the leader of that group tells me that he’s full, too bad so sad, better luck next time. Ooookay. That’s not the point of this entry.

So… I take Rae out to Siren’s to work on the timed badge for a bit, partly as a small break for me, partly because it’s needed for an accolade (which is a rant for another time). Not five minutes into Siren’s, but I get a tell asking if I’ve got 4 hours free. Only if it’s where I think this is headed. Sure, I’ll gladly sign away 4 hours of my life to jump on this beastie…

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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.

I was running Rae earlier tonight, enjoying a bit of downtime discussing the Mu Mastery set when this male toon comes up to me and starts chatting.

Him: “hi”
Me: “hi”
Him: “I’m from China. Are you US Woman?”
Me: “yeah” (having a feeling where this is going)
Him: “How old are you?”
Me: “old”
Him: “I’m 17 years old. How old are you?”
Me: “30-something”
Him: “Here’s my email address :www.xxxxxatxxxxx.xxx.xx.cn”
Him: “what’s yours. I can send you picture”
Me: (This is where I stretched the truth just a wee bit to see if he’d still bite or abruptly disappear.) “Sorry, can’t do that. I don’t think my husband would appreciate it.”
Cue no response, and he did vanish right after I said that.

He was asking some of the same questions to said SG mate and we were comparing notes in Coalition chat. Turns out I was the recipient of the heavy flirting. Sure I could have been a total bitch and led him on further, but I wasn’t up for snarking at that time.

It’s official. I hate PvP zones to the point where I now refuse to go into em except to collect badges that I need on two alts.

After having the worst experience in Recluse’s Victory, I’m through with PvP zones except for grinding the troll. And even then, I’m not so sure.

The worst experience? Being click stealed while working on badges and being told I was exploiting the game when I said to leave me alone cause I was badge hunting. Um… okay. While the same group that click stole from me was ganking someone else who they thought was a threat to them. Mind you, I’m sure they were doing the same exact thing I was. But it gets better. While I was logging Rae out to switch toons and pull Stormy out of RV, they had a tank buddy gank her. It so happened that where I parked Stormy said tank buddy had moved to. Moved her to the top of the tram and was promptly ganked by one of the asshat stalkers who started this entire mess.

So much for a new zone that might be better than the trash talk that takes place in Siren’s. RV is meaner by far and nastier by spades.

Well, so much for getting Frost from 40-45 post haste. I7 is being patched to Live as I’m writing this. First off, everyone that would likely be playing their 40+ alts will be working on their 40+ villains, myself included. There’re badges to be had on both sides in troves, which means more quality time spent with Stormy badgering, a patron arc to be worked through with Rae *shudder* as well as wading her through EB/AV hell for the 40-50 accomplishment badges. And a severe case of perma-debt with Rae to avoid outlevelling same.

Meanwhile Frosty will be stuck at 40 for the near forseeable future. Trick is on hold until further notice, mostly so I can make a build sheet for her and get advice from the one 50 Trick Arrow DeOffender I know ingame, who, after seeing his do insane things, inspired me to roll one. Oh, and there is Trick Arrow love in I7 too.

Let the insanity begin.

I still find it amusing that in 50 levels that one would think that once you hit 25 that would signal the halfway point of one’s heroic career. Bzzzt. Wrong answer. It’s actually 35 that marks the halfway point. I was painfully reminded of this earlier once Frost dinged 36 and that first xp bub creeped and creeped.

I’ve also forgotten just how much of a slog the late 30’s are. And by “slog” I mean, long and tedious pain in the ass. Mind you, this conflicts with my drive to get Frost to 45 post haste so she can be an active cardholder of the Jello Squashing Society. Once she hits 40 and she stays in Peregrine full time, I’m sure she’ll run the final 5 levels fine.

I’ve gotten her to the point where I can run her solo with a minimum of fuss. Jack is still a mixed bag for me as I’m learning how to manage a pet ontop of selling her as a healer (for the xp of course). I’m not a fan of uncontrolled pet aggro/behavior, so while I may seem like a gimped ‘troller for not always having her pet out in team missions, it’s more because I’m still trying to find that fine line of balance for myself.

On a related note, I was thinking earlier about how difficult it’s been leveling this gal as well as her team dependency early on. I have a better appreciation of empathy as a whole and how intense it is on a full team, and this is with a numpad full of binds. I tried the click on a teammate in the list and it worked for one or two people. Managing 7 that way? Nuh-uh. I’d pull all my hair out trying. I love Frost and I love playing her, but after she gets to 50, she’ll be my first and last empathy build.