ElectroHawk

Actually self-nerfing your toon isn't really that bad of an idea. Simply because once you realize your mistake or someone point it out to you, you'll understand so much more about the game and it's mechanics.

I can safely say that in my debut, I did take whirlwind and flurry, I didn't have health or stamina. I faceplanted just by looking at a grey con. But with all this and help from other players, I learned why I kept dying (I still do but now it's for fun lol), how to successfully pull on my blaster, how to manage my aggro... etc

If you start the game by doing what everyone tells you to do, you'll never really understand WHY they tell you to do so, you'll just believe them and when something new will come your way, you won't know how to react.

So play the game, take powers you think will be fun to use, learn the game, take your time and have fun. the rest will come with time and don't be afraid to ask question if you don't understand something ( oh and don't bother 6 slotting brawl .. no matter what people tell you )

Exactly the costume itself as raw data doesn't add ot the bandwidth, or at a very insignificant amount) the only people who could get problem from costume/aura data on the network side if those that are still on 56k modem ( I highly doubt there is that many)

The real problem is that the data is sent to the client, which then have to process it and then display it. When you get a team of 8 you don't see a difference because the data that needs to be processed is minimal. But make that team of 8 MM with all pets out ( range between 40-60 depending on the MM ) that starts to be a lot of information to process at once for every frame since the costume is re-calculated in it's position and then re-drawn every frame.

So if we take the old Hami raid where everyone ( 150+) were following the same targeter, you had to re-calculate and re-draw every costume in your line of sight at every frame. This can push any non-optimal computer to be overloaded and crash the client.

Taking away the variables who adds physics on top of the simple positional data (cap and Aura) you reduce the amount of processing power needed and dimish the chance of crashing for the clients.

The new Hami raids, help with limiting the number of person in the zone so you never have more than 50 costume ( without counting pets)

but but didn't the power went out during Double XP weekend?


Welcome back

Lol Slipknot kinda doesn't fit with the rest of the songs, but I think I would have been more annoyed by NKOTB lol ( Ok i'm a slipknot fan so what??? )

I didn't get to listen to you Nibbles.. I was dead sleeping by that time.. but i'll try to remember for next time.