It's alt time in City of Heroes. Again.
One
of the rules I set for myself when I started this blog was to
limit myself to only one character per game. It's a rule that I've broken
twice – in CoH and in Star Wars The Old Republic. The difference
is that I know exactly how many characters I'll one day run
through SWTOR – or at least the first 50 levels of SWTOR – and
that's one of each class for a total of 8. For CoH it's rather more open ended.
I expect I'll run at least one of each archetype, and maybe two if I want one Hero and one Villain. The one (almost) definite number I can come up with though is the number of Praetorians I'll run, which is 4, because that's how many distinct storylines there are in the 1-20 experience introduced in Going Rogue. Eliminatrix, a Claws/Invulnerability Stalker, is the second of those.
My
first trip to the not-the-mirror-universe was with Mistletoe, my
Plant/Thorn Dominator. A glance back at those posts confirms
that while I do enjoy the Dominator playstyle, that run did become a
bit of a slog toward the end. Part of that was due to Dominators
having problems in boss fights due to bosses having a lot of inherent resistance to control effects... and there's a lot more boss fights in
Praetoria than in the equivalent Paragon City/Rogue Isles content. This presents something of a dilemma; I like my characters to be somewhat themed, and as it stands I have only two other concepts lined up that 'fit' Praetoria, and they're both Dominators. Something to think about.
Boss fights shouldn't be as much of a problem for Eliminatrix, as Stalkers are extremely single target focused. That's not to say that the archetype doesn't have certain quirks which could make this run a challenge, but I fully expect to have an easier run of it on this character than I did on Mistletoe, for reasons I'll get into in future posts.
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