Quick Post

Did the usual on Warmheart. 

Also dropped my soldier toon on Champions; trying a Behemoth type named Swat.  The other toons were both ranged, so I thought I’d try another melee toon. I say another because I briefly tried a Blade archetype toon. 

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.

A bit of heroism

Did Warmheart only last night. Always fun to run with the guildies though. 

Also did some City of Heroes with my son. Not sure how much we’ll play, but so far it is fun. We both have blasters on the Virtue server. If you see a cowboy type running around called Dead Hand Dan, that’ll be me.

Tier gear right ahead

Again ran Chillshot and Warmheart. They are both close to a tier piece–first for Chillshot, second for Warmheart.  In both cases the 2-piece bonus will be a heavy improvement over the last tier’s bonus.

Variety Night

Ran Warmheart and Chillblood. 

Also got in some arena!  Oni and I did DK/disc priest. Very fun combo. We had a real problem with warriors–all but 2 of our 8 losses were to warrior teams. Not sure what we can do about that. 

Tried City of Heroes/City of Villains. It went free to play. It was nice seeing my old toons, even locked on the character screen with only two unlocks available. 

Sadly, I bough City of Villains and played it. My favorite was the Mastermind. Yet for some reason, though my toons are there, I do not have the ‘ability’ to play Masterminds. This despite having bought their game and paid for a subscription for many months back in the day. Sad. I have a ticket in, but doubt I will get much traction.

Quick post

I ran some on both Warmheart and Chillshot, and got Firelands dailies done on both. 

Pretty simple.

One More for Dailies

Warm is now capped on regular heroics. Only ZA/ZG til reset. 

I ran Chillshot through two dungeons, one with the guildies. Fun stuff. I still like BM as a spec. The damage is quite solid.

I also started her on the Firelands dailies (including regular Hyjal quests to open it up), and look forward to gear upgrades eventually. I am still planning on keeping Warm as a priority above her.

Halfway to 2-piece

Pretty basic play last night, with Warm running a couple of heroics. She’s almost capped for the week, unless she starts running ZA/ZG or maybe gets in a BH.

She got her tier gloves, and is working towards her 2-piece bonus. Her mana return is solid enough now that she rarely runs out of mana in the content I am putting her through.  The 2-piece bonus will be a nice help though.

Short Post

Family night last night; but got a random in on Warmheart and did her Firelands quests. All good.

Chilldeed got exalted with the trolls; switched to tauren.