Draggynn

And you should only have to wait a little longer to be able to do this. I understand the sentiment though. When I get new powers I often want to solo to understand just how good they are, since it's hard to get a good reading of just how good a power is if you're overly buffed or enemies are debuffed.

The Paragon Wiki page was not accurate last time I checked (but this proc tends to get changed on a regular basis) as the suppression had been removed. Thus, if the proc fires again before the buff has expired, it refreshes the buff.

I can't remember there having been an issue with the proc and hasten and I've never seen any peculiar interaction with hasten, so I would guess it's no longer bugged, but without knowing what you were seeing I can't be sure.

And No, the proc will not stack from different powers.

Very Nice LJ. I do in fact him! It was also a lot of fun to watch him develop over the course of the day. Thank you for continuing to share your talents with us.

I didn't think I was going to be interseted in controls either, but I took the required class on it and was hooked, so you never know.

Regarding the dual degrees, I don't think it really makes all that much of a difference. Because Mechanical and Aerospace are so related, having one you are going to know large sections of the other (part of what makes getting both relatively easy), and employers will recognize this. There are plenty of mechanical engineers that work on aerospace projects and plenty of aerospace engineers that work on non aerospace projects.

I suspect that you would get further pairing Mechanical/Aerospace with Civil or Electrical since they represent more diverse skill sets, but at the same time getting both degrees would be harder to do.

BOOOO! HSSSSSSSS!!! I think it's safe to say that people here are greatly enjoying and very appreciative of your art. My art tends to look like stick figures or spiral doodles so I'm jealous of all the artists on these forums that can draw things that actual resemble objects. I hope these words of appreciation can help.

[Well...i started posting before Pirate responded....oh well, Will leave as is]

Just some notes if you look at Tal_N's guide...take his numbers with a grain of salt...they're mostly "it looks like X" numbers, not the actual in game numbers. His FR description is currently wrong. Any tick of FR will apply a 30 second debuff (plus the -recharge and slow will continue for another 15 seconds at a lowered level) and any subsequent tick from the same FR will refresh the timer (debuffs from multiple FRs from the same caster will stack). Thus FR effectively provides 45 seconds of debuff (15 seconds of active storm and 30 seconds of debuff).

Also, as you probably know, as of i14 pets no longer inherit recharge so his comments about LS and hasten no longer apply. However LS will hit every 5.17 seconds not every 8-9 seconds like he claims.

As a lay person, I didn't notice. I'm continuing to enjoy your work, and got a chuckle from your comic.

As far as aerospace and mechanical go, the two tend to go pretty much hand in hand. I actually have a dual degree in mechanical and aerospace engineering. There were enough classes that could fill requirements for both that it was pretty easy to do at my University. The year after I graduated though, my University made doing this much harder.

As far as transferring credits to electircal engineering, that can be quite a bit harder. It depends a lot on what you focus on in aerospace engineering. It's possible to get an aerospace degree that has very little to do with electrical engineering and focuses primarily around issues of aeronautics, propulsion and fuel, material science, etc. Personally I focused more on the controls discipline which is much closer to electrical engineering (and often loathed by mechanical engineers because of this) so there was a lot of overlap. Although I think it would have been difficult for me to change my major to electrical, I was able to take many graduate level electrical engineering courses with mechanical and aerospace background and didn't feel at a loss. I am currently applying to graduate programs in control theory and whether these programs fall under the Mechanical or Electrical departments depends on the University.

The other thing is that most engineering programs these days stress the interdisciplanary nature of engineering, so you are usually required to take engineering courses outside of your specific discipline so you can always apply the aerospace credits towards those requirements.

That was a rather convoluted answer, but Mechanical and Aerospace, easy to go between, Aerospace and Electrical, depends.

Also I wouldn't worry too much about the job market at this point. Although it will likely be hard to get a job doing "rocket science" with some tenacity (which you clearly have) the jobs are still out there to had. That said, in the coming years I expect there to be significant growth in the energy sector and a degree in aerospace engineering with the knowledge of fluid flow and thermodynamics will be invaluable to those companies. There are lots of jobs that aren't explicity aerospace, where the aerospace degree will be valued.

I'll play the evil angel on the shoulder. As an aerospace engineer who played CoH all through college I assure you it can be done. CoH was my destresser late at night. However, you know how good you are at time management, and whether or not you can juggle both, but I thought I would let you know it's possible, the two aren't mutually exclusive

I wish you the best of luck and hope you enjoy aerospace engineering, I know I did (although I discovered controls was really my passion and am now working as an electrical engineer).

Yeah...I thought you'd ask that. It's been a while since I checked EBs, as I recall, they aren't consistent and it depends on whether it's an AV scaled down to an EB or a mob that was originally an EB. Sometime in the coming weeks though I will be going back through and testing for my Storm guide, so I will let you know when I have confirmation.

I think player notes are also stored on the user machine. Also MA arcs (oops, those were already mentioned by DJKyo)

I'm sorry you took my post personally, it was in no way intended to be a personal attack on you. To they extent that I quoted you "out of context" I quoted the part of your post with which I disagreed. I fully understood that, in the broadest sense, we agree, but the way I read your argument there are several fundamental points with which I disagree.

Maybe I misread your post, so correct me if I'm wrong but I think i'm taking a MUCH stronger stance than you were. I was not under the impression that you thought being "deliberately inflamtory" was okay. I was however under the impression, based on:
that you believe that if the person using the term gay in a derogatory manner did not mean for the term to refer to a person's sexual orientation, and did not mean to be offensive that perhaps offense should not be taken.

I'm arguing that just becuase someone did not use it in a "deliberately inflamatory" manner does not make it okay to use.

What I meant by this comment is that I believe the mark of what's offensive should be judged by those who are offended, not by the intention of the speaker. Furthermore I expect people, once they have been made aware that something they have said is found offensive, to attempt to refrain from it in the future. This places a greater expectation on the speaker, as they must account for other's feelings, not just their own. Your argument, as I understood it, placed greater focus on the intent of the speaker. It seems to be that it is a much lower standard to ask "did I intend to offend someone" than to ask "was somebody offended".

Furthermore, althought I don't advocate,
I do believe in pointing out when the term has been found offensive, and expect people to correct their behaviour appropriately. In fact, I would advocate anyone who feels comfortable enough speaking up in these situations, to do so.

If I misunderstood the position you were arguing, then I'm glad we're on the same side, but I suspect there are substantial differences in our positions. Again, I'm sorry that you took the post personally, I had not intended that at all.

...Yeah...we are not going to see eye to eye on this at all. I mean any person can choose whether or not to be offended by any manner of derogatory terms, but that does not make them unoffensive. And I think I hold people to higher standard than you do.

I recognize that when people say "that is so gay" they may not realize that the term is offensive to some people, but when I tell them that I find it offensive, I expect them to stop. I used to be in the bad habit of referring to things I found dumb as "retarded" but after being informed that this was indeed still a term that people found offensive (in this case it was by a friend that had a mentally challenged sibling) I now try very hard to refrain from using that word.

To be honest, personally, people calling something gay doesn't really bother me, but I will continue to inform people that I would rather they not use that term. Why? Because there might be someone out there who is gay and is closeted or simply not out to the people involved and every time they hear the term gay used in a derogatory manner it makes it that much harder for them to come out to those people. If the people are using gay in a derogatory way because they believe being gay is wrong, then the "it doesn't mean homosexual" argument holds no weight. If they have no problem with a person's sexual orientation, then using the term gay in derogatory manner sends the wrong message to their potentially closeted friends and acquaintences and should still be avoided. I think that it gets us nowhere if we simply allow these words to go by unaddressed. I will always ask people to stop because there might be someone out there for whom it will make a difference.

I just can't envision any situation where I think using the term "gay" in a derogatory manner would be okay since you can't be certain of a person's sexual orientation.

Yup, it's in there. Took me a moment to find it though, thought I might have taken it out for a moment.