Zichar

Yikes, what was I looking at?! Feel so silly right now... you're right, thanks for the clarification

Just stumbled upon PP when my MA/Inv scrapper turned 41; was having end issues and thought this would be part solution. Looking at other posts' guides and builds, most use it to frankenslot Heal and Endmod IO sets.

I was thinking two common Recred IOs would be the simplest since it's got such a long cooldown. Am I missing something here?

Oooooooohhhhhhh!!!
Almost respecced out of my nuke. Hmm will go practise some more
Oh and thanks for the guide, Silas

I remember reading this in a guide (could be Silas') about refilling one's blue bar after nuking with a well-timed application of heat loss. But I can't seem to pull it off; on the few successful attempts, I don't know what I did right! Can someone help shed some light on this please?

I recently started one as my first tanker, before the Burn changes got in. She's 46 now and I reckon it'll be better going in the low levels now with inherent fitness. Found ST damage to be anemic then, ran out of end before stuff died and admittedly sometimes i just waited for blazing aura to roast the last few slivers. Now with Burn, Frost and FA, most melt away. I don't have Fireball yet.

The caveat is that my experience has always been with squishies so this has been one of my most survivable toons. My diff is at 0/6 and it's fun solo. There's just too much Malta and carnies now at this level, things have slowed down a bit

I started on one recently, a mashup of powersets i've never tried before
Damage is anemic but i get by on teams, so far so good. The shields along with maneouvres and arctic fog help team survivability.
Am trying to figure out what my end goals for the toon is:

- Power buildup or powerboost (which is better) for static charge. One-shot end drain at least for even con minions i reckon.
- Ice or mace shields for the obvious s/l softcapping. Should be able to stand and fire off static charge for the second time. Seems easiest to do.
- Powersink for the one-two with static charge, building for at least 32.5 ranged def

They all seem viable; more choices should be good but i'm confused!

I should have read your reply earlier, Suspicious :-(

I googled for my issue and was convinced the vid card's the problem...
Went to the store, got a new card, came home, plopped it in and it won't POST!
Something new happened though, the green Sb Power LED on the mobo now keeps blinking upon standby. I strip off all components and it still blinks, the fans won't even turn
Thankfully a buddy of mine loaned me a psu to test and the light is clear and strong. Didn't try to start it up though, way to late in the night to try again. The wifey doesn't really understand why i get frustrated and must solve puter problems asap :-p

I have an Antec truepower 650w psu; rarely have problems with their products. Well i gotta go psu hunting after work today, ugh. For all i know the prev vid card may be alright, just underpowered? Hope the mobo's fine....

Rats, can someone prove my suspicions correct?

I was at WW mucking around when I saw a TF call in one of the server channels
I switched to my troller, and supersped my way to the FF tram station and then I had green artifacting and a pop-up saying OpenGL drivers had encountered an error.
Clicking OK threw me back to the desktop, no biggie, I logged in again, but before I took a first step it happens again.
Repeated and then at the char selection screen, neon green words were on the names and it froze.
So I shutdown and restarted ... and now there's blue dots all over my POST screen (though oddly it doesn't happen on the second page when it's detecting my optical disc drives) and then also on the subsequent screens, ie the
I can get into safe mode just fine but it won't boot normally. I get the BSOD before I reach the Windows logon screen.

The last time something like this happened was when the ITF just launched ... in the middle of one, I had the glass shards graphics error, multiple times, would no longer POST and figured the vid card no longer worked.
I changed it to the current 9800GT and all was fine.
It's not an oc-ed machine, though the puter is on most of the time for work and stuff.
The machine's 3 years old I think; Q6600 on an Asus P5K-e, running Vista

So ... is it dead again? And if so, what would you recommend as a replacement if I were to stick with Nvidia again? The Gtx460 1gb? Heat and power consumption would be my worries I figure

*I don't know if this is related. But on standby, my USB hdd makes a funny beeping noise. PSU issues too?

The reboot trick didn't work for me
Last thing I did was removing sound.pigg into another directory, started the updater, looked as though it'd gotten stuck again so I left for work
Came back many hours later and found the same error message again
This time, clicking 'Okay' for the next 5 error dialog popups seemed to have gotten it ready
I'm ... at the Next button now *rubs hands in glee* I think I'm good to go!

Ugh me too.

Began with fixing files, then the error of not having access rights not enough storage space etc when in the middle,of downloading sound.pigg, around the 270mb mark
Now it's just stuck at fixing sound.pigg but at 0b/s

I thought all the downloads were completed the past week everytime we logged out? Sigh

I guess I'll wait for news on the /Thorns buff?

Ahh good to know, thanks!

Looking at slotting Acid Arrow with the procs from Posi's Blast and/or Shield Breaker. Do they work and if anyone has gone this route, is it advisable?
Thinking aloud, the smallish radius may not be very conducive but I find Seeds, wait a moment then + Roots can get me good clumps.

First travel power at 30? Par for the course if not staving it off even longer.
There's enough temp travel powers to keep me from picking one.