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That would be my guess also, if the PSU is fine then your next option is the motherboard. I've seen this happen three times over the years; twice it was a power supply that just decided to die and once it was a dead motherboard.

Oh, I just thought of something... check and make sure that the power cord is firmly attached to the computer. I had a monitor once try to power up then quit thanks to a cord that was almost unplugged. It's unlikely but it doesn't cost anything to check!

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Oh, just saw your post... do you have a laptop? If so the battery should be irrelevant while you're plugged in; you'd be running on AC, not battery. If your computer won't power up while plugged into AC then you're possibly looking at a new power supply... WalMart carries universal power supplies and so does Radio Shack and Best Buy.

Another stupid question here, but is your power supply plugged directly into the wall or into a power strip? Is the power strip turned on and it's breaker isn't tripped? Many times I've found it's the stupid stuff that causes me fits... I tend to look for the complex before the simple.

It works just fine for me; I just slotted one on a new controller last week. Are you sure you don't have another stealth IO slotted in fly, jump or sprint?

Street Justice IS a lot of fun, although it does effectively force a thought process of "attack, attack, attack, NOW use a better attack, repeat with it's combo builder and finisher design. On the other hand I've found my StJ/Invuln scrapper to be the most fun melee character I've played yet... I just got him to 44 last night.

There's just something about kicking the bad guys in the junk that makes you giggle, and you get Nut Cracker... er, I mean Rib Cracker, fairly early.

Ah, I guess that's what I get posting after midnight. In that case it sounds like he hasn't reached tier 3, the solution is to either subscribe or buy more points.

Speaking of pricing the OP may not be aware of the extreme cost of the build they first posted. Also, even though that build would cost way over 4 billion inf (that Gladiator's Armor 3% def IO will be the better part of 3 billion all by itself) it's really not going to be very effective. The power order really needs some work and the slotting needs to be reworked.

Kal, I'd advise you to check out both of my guides in my signature for some suggestions on powers and slotting. My basic soft cap build is a tiny fraction of the cost of the one you're contemplating and gives you a "shopping list" of the IO's you'll want. In a nutshell you'll want Reactive Armor in your armors, Smashing Haymaker in your single target attacks and Mocking Beratement in Taunt. That should get you close to the soft cap for S/L damage. E/N defense is going to be a bit tougher to get since /SS only has one AOE to slot Eradication. You can slot a full set of Thunderstrike into an APP attack for more E/N defense.

You need to be level 20+ to get tips and I think you also need to have Going Rogue on your account. I won't swear to the second part but you definitely need to be level 20 or higher.

Heck, in cash on hand I'm nearly a pauper... I only have about 4-5 billion spread across all my toons. On the other hand I have about 20 enhancement tables in several bases nearly full of high value stuff and more yet on my various toons.

I don't tend to work the market that hard unless I'm financing a high end build; otherwise I just accumulate inf and then blow it outfitting an alt.

Heh, after hundreds of Hami raids from issue 4-8 and dozens of STF's I've quite a few stockpiled. Still for most players that's a definite concern although aren't two Enzymes cheaper than 3 Cytos?

We're getting kind of into the realm of really high end builds though; I imagine most players aren't going to have those resources. I figured CMA's build a couple of months ago taking the then-current market prices and it was around 4 billion. Of course a solid soft capped Invuln build without all the extra bells & whistles could be done for under 200 million.

Agreed, in my last respec of CMA I got the same def/tohit buff out of two Enzymes that I had from 3 Cytos. That freed a slot to toss in a LOTG +7.5.

I believe you are correct, the 90% cap applies to debuff resistance as well.

Just like defense, it reduces the number itself, THEN the cap is figured. On the other hand resistance resists resistance debuffs (say that 3 times fast) and if your resistance is 90% then you'll resist 90% of the debuff. In practical terms if you get hit with a 10% res debuff and you have 92% resistance (capped at 90%) you'll be affected by a 1% debuff bringing your res to 91%.

Interesting idea on the small, stackable debuff, depending on the numbers it could be good or relatively meaningless though. It is an out of the box suggestion.

On the other hand I'm not really sure slotting Gauntlet would be all that effective and we all know just how precious slots are. Still, if it's done well it could be interesting. Of course then all the other AT's would want to be able to slot THEIR inherent so it might open up a nasty can of worms.

Yep, I really see no valid reason to go with the Core side Rebirth... Radial doesn't just beat it, it follows it into an alley, smacks it upside the head and steals it's lunch money.

Core Rebirth is, IMO, crying out for a buff of some sort to make it a valid choice to the far superior Radial line.

Well, any modern laptop should be fine on CPU & RAM. The sticking point is the video card... COH is extremely demanding on graphics and Ultra Mode is even more so. You'll need a dedicated graphics card, either ATI or Nvidia, and the better the card the better performance you'll see. Here's the graphics equivalence chart from Tom's Hardware, anything on par with or better than the Nvidia 280 M should be ok. If your laptop has a high resolution screen then you'll move the requirements up a notch and of course the better the card the better the framerate.

For non-ultra mode or limited ultra mode you can drop down to the 7950 GTX moble card and still have good performance... I have an older laptop with that card that plays fine at 1600x900.

If your laptop has "Intel integrated graphics" of any flavor forget it... you might get COH running at low settings but it's not going to be pretty.

Here's what I do... I've been using the Nostromo for 7 years now.

Keys 1-10 are bound to 1, 2, 3, etc.
Key 11 is spacebar (jump)
Key 12 is alt
Key 13 is ctrl
Key 14 is open and I bind it to something I use frequently that doesn't fit... on my Incarnates it's typically my Destiny power.

The thumb rocker I map to the arrow keys and use it for moving around, the small top thumb button I map to "closest enemy", the wheel I have mapped to next/previous enemy and button 15 is mapped to follow.

With that setup I have my tray 1 powers under my fingers, my tray two are available with key 12 + whatever power and my tray three powers are key 13 + whatever power.

I always set all my characters up similarly so I don't have to hunt for powers... all my main attacks will be 1-5, 6 is always my travel power (I like this macro for super jumpers: "powexec_name combat jumping$$powexec_name super jump" to toggle from CJ to SJ), 7-0 are going to be buffs, debuffs, "special" attacks and whatnot.

Tray 2 contains buffs, pet summon and other things I need frequently while Tray 3 has the overflow. Trays 4-6 have macros, TP powers like O Portal, Base TP, Assemble the Team and other powers I use occasionally but don't need in combat. So far I haven't yet come up with a character I can't fit all powers I use in combat onto the first 3 trays... things I use out of combat it isn't a problem to simply click with the mouse.

I try to configure things so I can move from a tanker to a controller to a defender without having to relearn where my powers are.

I bind the forward/backward (button4, button5) buttons on the mouse to a self heal and/or AOE buff power. For my Kinetic characters I use the keyboard numeric keypad with the following:

NUMPAD1 "$$teamselect 1$$powexecname Speed Boost"
NUMPAD2 "$$teamselect 2$$powexecname Speed Boost"
NUMPAD3 "$$teamselect 3$$powexecname Speed Boost"
NUMPAD4 "$$teamselect 4$$powexecname Speed Boost"
NUMPAD5 "$$teamselect 5$$powexecname Speed Boost"
NUMPAD6 "$$teamselect 6$$powexecname Speed Boost"
NUMPAD7 "$$teamselect 7$$powexecname Speed Boost"
NUMPAD8 "$$teamselect 8$$powexecname Speed Boost"

Hitting 1 on the keypad selects team member #1 and hits them with SB (sometimes you need to hit it twice, once to select and once to buff).

I find that setup takes care of my needs; most of the time I only take my hands off the Nostromo & Mouse when I'm typing something in chat.

This has been my experience also; I first soft capped my Inv/Stone tanker in issue 13... at the time I wasn't sure how well it would perform so I hung onto Unstoppable. Well, just about a year later after tanking everything in the game at that time I hadn't hit Unstoppable once, or needed it for that matter. Therefore it got the boot in the next respec.

Now I did get use out of Unstoppable in the issue 6-12 era before it was feasible to build for high defense. It wasn't often needed even then but I used it perhaps every other play session. Now however, if you build high defenses, it's the next best thing to worthless. As Hyper mentioned the few things that bypass your defense/resists generally are hard enough hitting that Unstoppable wouldn't make any difference anyway. You might find a couple of corner cases where it would help but IMO it's kind of hard to justify a power you only use once in a blue moon.

On your money problems you'd be amazed at just how easy it is to make massive amounts of inf. Two days of running Tip missions gets you an Alignment Merit that you could cash in on either 5 random rare recipe rolls (odds are you'll get at least 30 million profit from that once you craft the recipes and you may score several hundred million profit) or you can take a guaranteed profit of ~50 - 80 million by simply buying one of the high dollar recipes... the Kinetic Combat set has a few recipes that cost 1 merit and sell crafted for 50-100 million.

You can also, once you've run 10 tip missions and your Morality mission, run the "Who will Die" arcs for another 5 A-Merits. With 6 A-Merits in hand you should easily be able to finance a basic soft capped Invuln build. Obviously there will be room for improvement as you get more inf built up but if you buy level 30-35 recipes and craft them you should be able to manage your build for close to what you'll get from those A-Merits.

Really there's very little of substance to change, for all practical purposes the only difference is another optional power pick in place of the travel prerequisite. Personally I often use that optional pick for Combat Jumping; it gives you nice mobility and provides a small amount of defense for practically zero endurance cost (0.07/second). Since most of my melee characters tend to be super jumpers it amounts to no change. It does open the option to keep the defense buff/combat mobility of Combat Jumping while also getting Fly if that's the direction you prefer.

As far as opening at level 4 it's certainly an option to get your travel then but as fast as levels come in that range I find it's more useful to pick up another attack at that point. Waiting a couple of levels for a travel power isn't any real hardship and that second attack will help those levels go by faster.

There are some nice attacks available to you in the APP's and I do find them useful on my tankers... Fire Ball makes a nice ranged attention getter. HOWEVER, you sacrifice the vast majority of your damage potential if you stay at range. Sometimes that's useful if you need to hold an AV's attention from range but if your damage output is a factor in the fight then you need to be in melee... those APP attacks are nice, but they're fairly anemic in the DPS category thanks to their recharge and somewhat lowered damage numbers.

I have a couple of melee characters who have zero ranged attacks and generally haven't found it a huge problem. Now I haven't ever played the MoM trial so I don't know any specifics about it but I certainly wouldn't expect melee characters to be effective damage dealers from range.

Bottom line it sounds like that league leader was talking nonsense.

I have to agree there; that PC will probably be useful for word processing and web browsing for some years to come but as a gaming machine it's way out of date. I'm not enough of a PC historian to know just what vintage that machine is but at a guess it's somewhere in the neighborhood of 10 years old. I'd suggest retiring it or possibly just using it for office work.

You can buy a new machine that's up to the task, albeit at moderate settings, for around $600, or you can get something that's highly capable for around $1,200. Yeah, more $ can get you more performance; you'll need to decide on your budget and on just what you want to do with the machine. This forum is full of knowledgeable people who can guide you to the best options in your price range. In today's computer market one of the most important components in a gaming machine is the video card; you want to make sure you get one with enough horsepower for the job. Integrated Intel HD graphics will NOT work well if at all, you need a dedicated Nvidia or ATI card.

From that point the question is "how much video card do you want?"; and the counter question of "how much video card can you afford?". Figure on a minimum of ~$100 to get a good card, from there more $ generally gets you more performance with a top end card running over $500. Realistically the price/performance ratio gets to a peak at around $200-250... those $500+ cards will generally only be a small amount faster; the last few % of performance will cost you more than double the money. You'll be able to get good playable performance with decent settings out of a $100 card, from that point it's just a question of how much beyond playable you want to go and how much eye candy you want to turn on.

Assuming your monitor is of the same vintage as the rest of the PC I wouldn't plan on re-using anything; good 21" LCD monitors are out there for under $150 and they blow away most any old CRT monitors I've seen. Keyboard and mouse are cheap; frankly I generally replace mine on a nearly annual basis. For $20 (newegg price) it doesn't seem worth the trouble to clean an old dirty KB and I frequently fall under the spell of a "new shiny mouse" when I see one with new features I've just gotta have.