Thursday, October 16, 2014

Sharing the crazy

Along the way during my adventures into rare loot I've found others, companions, associates. The other crazies. The malcontents who run the same content over and over again to find a drop that eludes them to make a character whole. These players not surprisingly enough farm on teleporters. Characters that can cover distance way faster than a dasher or a flier. I run a flier, Ms. Marvel. Not the quickest but a top contender for speed kills on target mobs and survivability.
You can get there fast, but can you survive?

The top two crazy player choice characters are Deadpool and Loki. Nightcrawler gets around the fastest but can't a hit like the other two.  I've run multiple hours worth of Kurse runs alongside all three and I have to say that the Deadpool cares less about taking damage and more about speed than the other two mentioned heroes. Why do you ask? If we look at comical character stats, Deadpool is unkillable, Loki is a God and Nightcrawler is a mortal with some damn good combat sense. Game wise, Loki is pretty damn good at defense, Nightcrawler has virtually none and Deadpool remains oddly the same in videogame form. A teleport plus nigh unkillability? Seems like a good choice to spam a boss with.

I've mentioned how fast I can clear a Kurse terminal by myself. Picture the teleporters in half the time. When grouped I will take down one Lieutenant by myself right after the they will take down two. It's rather annoying but if you wanna do 2/3 the work yourself then by all means, work it.

We convene on Kurse and proceed to lay the beatdown and what a beatdown occurs. Kurse summons adds, adds fall down within moments of appearing. Half the time of a solo Kurse fight goes by and we scrounge through the loot pile hoping for the appropriately named brown text box that tells us we've found it! But no, its usually not the case. Its a rare drop for a reason.

After being disappointed we zone out. Whoever has the faster computer zones back and we repeat the process. Over and over again. The farm is rote. Hours go by and you almost feel bad for Kurse. Then you realize he still has something you have and you get mad at again and keep farming with your current crazy partner. But hey, you're not alone at least, right?