City of Heroes Diary #2

Eurogamer is offering up another diary for Cryptic’s City of Heroes, this time discussing the usage of the game’s respec option to help keep your hero alive. A snippet:

Finally, I’ve been dying because I’ve been doing some really stupid things.

The best of which have involved my Energy Torrent power. This sends of funnel of force flickering… oh, enough Stan-Lee-aping alliteration. It hits a lot of bad guys, quickly, and knocks them on their backside as well as doing a little damage. Essentially, it’s for temporarily immobilising groups to give you time to either run away or pummel them in their defenceless position. It also, in most cases, reminds every single one of the bad-guys that there’s someone else in the group of superheroes attacking them other than ANDOV.