Back to EC

Paradroid got back to hard mode EC. We had some connection problems and some rust, and weren’t able to get the first boss down in a short session.

That convinced me to plunk down 700,000 credits and get the last six of my gear slots augmented. Time to get serious. Exotech stims sell well.

In WoW, only did one thing: ran Headless Horseman eight or so times to get everyone in our group the ring drop. The fight is the same, but tuned up a bit; the final burn phase requires some cooldowns to be popped due to non-squishy adds continuing to arrive.

Hallow’s End is done

Limited play time yesterday due to Halloween. Managed to get Chillshot’s Fireland dailies and Argent Tourney done, plus one last round of Headless Horseman runs.

No mounts on any toons, no helm on the toon that could use it (Chillhand for Ret offspec). Disappointing season really. Got the Squashling on two toons that didn’t have it, and that is about all. 

Quick Post

Limited play yesterday. Mostly ran Chillshot through a dungeon. Also realized I had leather rather than mail shoulders on her and corrected that. Ugh.  Ran Headless Horseman, didn’t get anything important, though got the sword for transmog purposes on the rogue. 

Another Day

Another Headless/Firelands day in WoW. 

I’m still liking CO, the whole super hero thing is fun. But it feels a little hollow without Pants on Head around.

Champions Arise

Ran Headless Horseman and Firelands dailies with the guildies. 

Also did a fair bit of Champions Online. Got my mind toon, Domino, to level 17. The leveling is quite slow. Still fun though. Just ran the five-part (feels like five comic issues) dungeon known as Aftershock. I’m not sure if a non-self-healing toon could solo it. Fairly tough, and the boss fights are brutal. Plus the enemies level up as you do, so you can’t outlevel it.  Very clever of them to have the dungeon scale both with party size and with level.

Mining the Mind

Ran more Headless Horsemen, no mounts. Also did typical Warmheart Firelands dailies and random, all with the guildies. 

Then did Champions Online. I started with me and my son. I was on my Mind character Domino, and he was on his Blade toon. Soon we were joined by the Pants on Head member Bugger. He had a Grumoire toon. We were soon tearing things up. 

Still, Mind toons are squishy.  She died a lot, partly because when you are grouping the bad guys go and get help, and with her AOE she gets lots of threat  However, at the end of the night she dinged 11. That meant another ability, her first (only?) healing ability. That should help her survivability greatly.

Early Thoughts on Ranged Tanking

Ran Headless Horseman on a few toons last night. Took Warm through Firelands again. 

Not much other play time. But did get Chillout on Champions Online to level 12 and had fun doing it. He is quite tough, yet does decent damage. Soloing the whole time, I think I only died when I strayed into high-level territory.

As to the whole SWTOR vs Chillout ranged tanking, it could be really fun. I would sometimes use cover to block attacks from strong ranged enemies or kite strong melee. All while damaging them with dots.

To be fair I think the whole Glacier archetype may have more slows and holds than a SWTOR Trooper tank. Not having played SWTOR yet it is hard to tell.