{"id":362,"date":"2009-05-24T00:37:03","date_gmt":"2009-05-24T06:37:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/getmeoutofthis.net\/?p=362"},"modified":"2010-01-04T11:46:09","modified_gmt":"2010-01-04T17:46:09","slug":"iotm-review-its-a-familiar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/getmeoutofthis.net\/?p=362","title":{"rendered":"IoTM Review: It&#8217;s a Familiar!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I don&#8217;t know if you heard, but part of the revamp of the Cube quest was that you got, gasp, a permanent sidekick! Which was really damn cool! It doesn&#8217;t do anything worthwhile for someone who is farming and has like&#8230; a million clockwork ants, but once we get into a retcon or ascension kind of environment? I know I&#8217;m going to use the thing like crazy!<\/p>\n<p>In any case, that change hit in the middle of April, and then, in may, we had the equivalent of Twilight Heroes&#8217; first &#8220;familiar,&#8221; the <a href=\"http:\/\/th.blandsauce.com\/wiki\/Highly_implausible_script\">highly implausible script<\/a>. It teaches your understudy a new role, that of the <a href=\"http:\/\/th.blandsauce.com\/wiki\/Grumpy_old_smuggler\">grumpy old smuggler<\/a>. This role is basically a combination of the <a href=\"http:\/\/th.blandsauce.com\/wiki\/Flea_market_trader\">Flea Market Trader<\/a> and the <a href=\"http:\/\/th.blandsauce.com\/wiki\/Jujitsu_expert\">Jujitsu Expert<\/a> roles that your understudy can learn at the Firebird College at Philbin, but with a much higher level cap, and it does both roles at once, and it&#8217;s significantly more entertaining.<\/p>\n<p>Basically, I am completely down for all those things. Item Find is never, ever going to be unwelcome, even if I&#8217;m the non-optimal sort who doesn&#8217;t always use it, and I much like Potato variants over in KoL, so I can totally see me being quite behind blocking attacks once I am lower level again and, you know, attacks could hit me. (Or this supposed very high level content comes out and I&#8217;m fighting enemies that can hurt.) From a usability standpoint, the grumpy old smuggler is a hit.<\/p>\n<p>And, of course, it&#8217;s pretty darn funny from a comedy standpoint, too. It&#8217;s obviously full of Star Wars references, but the long, boring, old man stories my understudy tells that get Star Wars totally wrong and totally right make me grin. I only wish there was more of them. Although I never really thought of Han Solo as a grumpy old man&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>But yeah, this IoTM is basically a complete win. Part of it, I&#8217;m sure, is that there aren&#8217;t any other IoTM-strength options for permanent sidekicks in the game. Once, perhaps, additional scripts get out there, the smuggler&#8217;s benefits may be significantly reduced, and less worth your time. I don&#8217;t know. But for the cheap that want to farm and for the future, the script is completely worth picking up, in my book. Yep. Completely.<\/p>\n<p>Yep.<\/p>\n<p>Do I end a lot of blog posts with yep?<br \/>\nYep.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I don&#8217;t know if you heard, but part of the revamp of the Cube quest was that you got, gasp, a permanent sidekick! Which was really damn cool! It doesn&#8217;t do anything worthwhile for someone who is farming and has like&#8230; a million clockwork ants, but once we get into a retcon or ascension kind [&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\/362"}],"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=362"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/getmeoutofthis.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/362\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":916,"href":"http:\/\/getmeoutofthis.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/362\/revisions\/916"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/getmeoutofthis.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=362"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/getmeoutofthis.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=362"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/getmeoutofthis.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=362"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}