{"id":171,"date":"2008-11-16T00:31:00","date_gmt":"2008-11-16T06:31:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/getmeoutofthis.net\/?p=171"},"modified":"2010-01-04T11:49:41","modified_gmt":"2010-01-04T17:49:41","slug":"only-weeks-late-iotm-impressions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/getmeoutofthis.net\/?p=171","title":{"rendered":"Only Weeks Late: IoTM Impressions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>What? November IoTM Impressions? Don&#8217;t mind if I do.<\/p>\n<p>Twilight Heroes has the <a href=\"http:\/\/th.blandsauce.com\/wiki\/Judo_kid_gloves\">Judo Kid Gloves<\/a> on tap this month. They are&#8230; well, they look fairly unappealing at first glance. I was underwhelmed but assumed they would be fun. I was mostly right about the fun, but still, it&#8217;s very situational. Obviously, these only work if you have a steady supply of sidekickness, which is actually kind of rare for some classes who can&#8217;t summon their own in the game. You almost need the <a href=\"http:\/\/th.blandsauce.com\/wiki\/Plaid_couch\">Plaid Couch<\/a> to make it worthwhile. Luckily, I have 2, so I&#8217;m making good use of it. The +50% effectiveness comboed with the <a href=\"http:\/\/th.blandsauce.com\/wiki\/Mafia_informer\">Mafia Informant<\/a> it putting my chip drops through the roof. I&#8217;m wearing less +chip gear and getting more chips than before. It&#8217;s wonderful. The extra PP and Damage are also always appreciated. The extra PP effect can actually trigger during non-combats, too, which is just weird but neat.<br \/>\nBasically, though, it doesn&#8217;t do a lot. It just improves what was already good. It&#8217;ll get used if you get one, but, well, this might be an IoTM you can safely skip.<\/p>\n<p>Now the <a href=\"http:\/\/kol.coldfront.net\/thekolwiki\/index.php\/Sticker_tome\">Scratch &#8216;n&#8217; Sniff Sticker Tome<\/a> was an IoTM I was SERIOUSLY looking forward to. I&#8217;ve enjoyed all my other magic books, and I figured filling up that last slot on my Mystical Bookshelf would be really great. Not to mention the idea of a customizable weapon was just an awesome one.<br \/>\nI was quite disappointed.<br \/>\nI mean, the item is powerful, don&#8217;t get me wrong, but it&#8217;s completely just a series of buffs held back by the need to equip a weapon. That&#8217;s fine, I suppose, but it&#8230; well, I can&#8217;t seem to find many times when it would be worthwhile to load up a <a href=\"http:\/\/kol.coldfront.net\/thekolwiki\/index.php\/Scratch_%27n%27_sniff_sword\">Scratch &#8216;n&#8217; Sniff Sword<\/a> with stickers and use the benefits. I mean, okay, it often would be worth it. But it&#8217;s never worth it enough for my stingy ass to use up the items. It doesn&#8217;t help it that some of the best uses for it, getting stats, are rather eclipsed by my <a href=\"http:\/\/kol.coldfront.net\/thekolwiki\/index.php\/Naughty_fortune_teller\">Naughty Fortune Teller<\/a>.<br \/>\nI mean, I suppose the real benefit of this is not in softcore, but in hardcore. There the extra stats from the <a href=\"http:\/\/kol.coldfront.net\/thekolwiki\/index.php\/Scratch_%27n%27_sniff_apple_sticker\">Apple Stickers<\/a> would be very useful, and getting a good sword with neat effects early would be more significant, since I can&#8217;t just pull my <a href=\"http:\/\/kol.coldfront.net\/thekolwiki\/index.php\/Haiku_katana\">Haiku Katana<\/a> or whatever. If you&#8217;re in hardcore, I&#8217;m sure it&#8217;s a great help. But for someone all softcore like me&#8230; it just feels like it doesn&#8217;t do quite enough. It disappoints me.<br \/>\nMaybe if I&#8217;d just get over myself and use my items, though, I wouldn&#8217;t have that problem. Hm. Either way, though, &#8220;Accepts Bedazzlement&#8221; is a great-sounding enchantment, isn&#8217;t it?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What? November IoTM Impressions? Don&#8217;t mind if I do. Twilight Heroes has the Judo Kid Gloves on tap this month. They are&#8230; well, they look fairly unappealing at first glance. I was underwhelmed but assumed they would be fun. I was mostly right about the fun, but still, it&#8217;s very situational. Obviously, these only work [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[17,24,4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/getmeoutofthis.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/171"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/getmeoutofthis.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/getmeoutofthis.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/getmeoutofthis.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/getmeoutofthis.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=171"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/getmeoutofthis.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/171\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":928,"href":"http:\/\/getmeoutofthis.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/171\/revisions\/928"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/getmeoutofthis.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=171"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/getmeoutofthis.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=171"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/getmeoutofthis.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=171"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}