Bill Z Bubba

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  1. PS,

    Go to coh.com and scroll to the bottom of the screen. There you will see that the Nvidia logo is gone and has been replaced with a ATI logo.

    It's been this way for quite a while, oddly enough. As for i-17 fixing all of the known ATI issues, we'll see come open beta. All we really have to work on is what was said at herocon.

    I am happy with my recent ati 5870 purchase, but I didn't do any benchmarking of it in my last rig which is running the G92-8800gts. Tom's hardware shows a rather heavy performance boost.
  2. I don't see a big deal about lowering the level requirement.

    So there will be even more people to say "meh" about the EATs.
  3. I see cysts are working as intended. Right on.
  4. ...

    I wonder if that'll fit in my sig.

    EDIT: yup.
  5. Mine is Dr. Hoffenfeferer
  6. Bill Z Bubba

    Ghost town?

    Quote:
    Originally Posted by JKwervo View Post
    Silence!
    Is Golden!
  7. Quote:
    I'll probably give Brutes another try with Going Rogue if I can mostly stay away from red side.
    <cough>clawsbrute<cough>
  8. I can't stand bunny hopping, so I go with swift instead of hurdle. I usually leave sprint on in combat as long as I have end to burn. If I don't, sprint is bound to G for easy on/off access.

    I have no target speed. Just fast.
  9. So last night, I was running around at level 12 soloing my new DP/Traps Cor. I got bored due to my slow (for me) advancement and was thinking about hopping over to L4D2 instead, when I posted to PinnBadges with a inquiry as to whether there were any villains that wanted another DP on their team.

    Then I went AFK. I came back to find an invite on my screen and without even checking to see who it was, I accepted.

    Saw that my new teammate was in Grandville on OMW I went. Then checked global and saw that my benefactor was Lemur Lad. Told him yay and how happy I was that I didn't need to be polite.

    We ran, I think, 5 missions, maybe 6. LL on his mace/shield brute at 46, me on my unslotted dp/traps at 45.

    Here's the point to the post:

    I advanced 9.5 levels. I wasn't door sitting. It was fun. I was honestly shocked at how the new diff settings were affecting the lowbie's leveling speed in a wide-level-spread duo like this.

    It would appear that "I have seen the light" as it were.

    So in the future, when I've decided to cruise around on my mains soloing at +2/x8, expect to hear from me in PinnBadges offering to team with anyone that feels like some fast XP.

    Door sitting will, of course, not be tolerated. I know you want your debt badges anyway.

    Thanks, LL.
  10. TS, there's a PvP dam-res debuff proc that you can put in Eviscerate. Not remembering the name at the moment.
  11. Emberly, I'm on Win7 64bit, with an ATI 5870 and running the latest 10.2 drivers. I have zero issues alt-tabbing, windows keying, anything.

    I don't run CHV through steam. EDIT: Completing thoughts is a good thing. have you already hit the steam forums for alt-tabbing questions? I ask because on both nvidia and ati cards, I've run into weirdness of different types alt-tabbing while playing on steam.
  12. Quote:
    Originally Posted by Lord_Thanatos View Post
    And i think the perception of Claws under performing came from the time before real numbers, and when we finally got them, and people crunched the numbers, Claws was found to be pretty competitive. Alot of it seems to have been perception. (small damage numbers etc)
    Claws once DID suck. A lot. It got fixed a couple times.

    Swipe's animation change.
    Eviscerate's cone depth made deeper as Catwhoorg just mentioned.
    The removal of baked in redraw was HUGE. So huge that Castle felt it necessary to add a damage tweak based on cast times.


    Negate, I don't even have eviscerate in my main's build. My new claws/wp brute will be taking it, though.
  13. Quote:
    Originally Posted by Erin Go Braugh View Post
    Postagulous,
    I think the OP was sincere in his original question. It seems that when folks explained the set a bit more and likely scenarios, he acknowledged their points and thanked them.
    Yup. Not to mention calling out others for being trolls on this particular forum is against forum rules.

    I would know. I've come close to being banned for doing it.
  14. Quote:
    So to have two stickied discussions, neither of which really touch on AoE damage output or teaming situations is as Julius put it "a bit myopic".
    I agree. It's even more amusing when the primary purpose for these threads was to prove to myself that there is absolutely no reason for any given set not to be proliferated amongst the melee archetypes.

    The OP was never meant to be more than that and a general comparison to show where a set sits for single target damage output. Imagine my surprise when I returned from a break to find them stickied.

    Now imagine the playful griefing I've received because of it.

    <shrug> Just one of those things, I guess.

    I will say this, however, discussions on teaming don't belong in ANY thread that is discussing direct damage output comparisons simply because every team is going to be different. Others may disagree with that statement, but I never cared.

    I view the game from a soloist viewpoint, I view powerset balance on what can be achieved while solo. How something performs while buffed to the walls on a team is silly to me partly because on teams everything gets steamrolled into paste in this game.
  15. Bill Z Bubba

    Broken Graphics.

    Quote:
    although for some reason i think you have to get the drivers for an ATI chipset from the AMD site.
    Because ATI was purchased by AMD.

    OP, did you install Win7 on top of Vista or did you freshly format the drive?

    I have never nor will never trust any "upgrade" by Microsoft. It's clean installs or nothing due to consistently freaky behavior afterwards.
  16. Bill Z Bubba

    Ghost town?

    Also didn't know D-XP was starting today. I'll be running my DP/Traps through papers/regular content and might even ask if folks want to join me.

    Probably be more fun that AE farming.
  17. Bill Z Bubba

    Shadow Maul

    Quote:
    Originally Posted by ClawsandEffect View Post
    I still want to take Flurry with one of my DMs and chain all 3 together.

    Absolute crap DPS, but it'll be funny as hell to punch something in the face 24 times in a row.
    Did it on a brute. Twice. It is fun.

    It's also a gift for those wanting to reach the debt cap as quickly as possible.
  18. I see this thread is in good hands.

    Claws is fine.
    Skipping Slash is not wise. It's not a good idea. It will harm your DPS considerably. Especially in the end game when you slap a chance for dam-res debuff in it.

    Strike is better for an attack chain than Swipe BUT not by so much that you're really hurting yourself if you choose Swipe over Strike. On my next build, I'll be going back to Swipe.

    I've hit the 200 DPS mark with my claws/sr scrapper. That's with a secondary without a damage buff. I'll never reach the insane DPS of a dark/shield with saturated Soul Drain and AAO, but I can solo AVs, Pylons and survive ridiculous amounts of carnage.


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    I seriously hope the Devs come up with a way to transfer characters from 1 account to another.
    This is an incredibly ignorant idea.
  19. Quote:
    Originally Posted by Vitality View Post
    Your right, it does seem childish...but I'm just trying to prove a point. (I already purchased GR haha)
    Even better. Now the devs truly have no reason to grant your wish.
  20. Quote:
    Originally Posted by Vitality View Post
    If you truly believe that...actually, your crazy for believing that.

    ATs are the heart and soul of this game...Tough is just a power pool power.

    To say those are exactly the same thing is beyond ridiculous.
    So YOU say. But the more you post the the more it becomes obvious that your opinion carries little weight.
  21. Quote:
    I'm probably not going to buy GR.
    Then you won't be playing a brute on blue side.

    I, on the other hand, already have a level 22 brute waiting to run through the side switching arcs because I want to run the side switching arcs. As a bonus I'll have a worthwhile "tank" to play during those rare moments I feel like teaming AND dealing damage AND managing aggro.

    To your point, the devs have obviously weighed the fact that some players will choose not to get GR due to roleplaying decisions and have obviously decided that such a loss is negligible and beneath concern.
  22. Quote:
    Originally Posted by Eiko-chan View Post
    Would a suggestion allowing Villains to select Patron Pools without having to complete a Patron Arc be visited with as much rejection?
    By some, sure. But probably not as many would be against it due to there being the fact in place that heroes get their APPs automatically hassle free.

    There is an existing lack of balance there.

    There is no lack of balance concerning the soon to be existing pathways to side swapping.
  23. Quote:
    Originally Posted by Vitality View Post
    Your comparison is absurd.

    You get Vanguard costume pieces with merits, yes, but you get the vanguard costume piece merits by joining vanguard and running vanguard mission. That makes perfect sense...because you shouldnt be able to get vanguard costume pieces without being a member.

    To force a backstory on our character in order to play a certain AT on a certain side is not the same thing at all.
    Your response is absurd. See how well that worked out for ya?

    You want something the game will provide: a brute teaming with hero side archetypes. You are going to be given two ways to make that happen.

    You want vanguard costume pieces: You are given a way to get them.

    If your roleplaying stops you from using the options given to you to get what you want, there is no one stopping you but you.

    You are to blame. You are at fault. There is ZERO difference between you asking for what you asked for in the OP and me asking for tough without boxing/kick.

    I understand your desire. You won't get what you want any more than I will. Tough titties.
  24. Bill Z Bubba

    Dual Pistols QQ

    Quote:
    Originally Posted by Judas_Ace View Post
    Is that just damage numbers? Because if the "worst" sets have more utility (Hold/sleeps/etc.) then even if it's better than them in pure damage, it might not actually be "better". After all, there's more to a set than just damage numbers.
    Yes. That was just damage numbers. My own purely subjective opinion is that I enjoyed swapping ammo and the knockdown was groovy.