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Tell me about it! =P

This is a significant omission.

The Nit I'm picking is you twisting what he's said in this thread so you can cluck your tongue about how dumb he obviously is. I don't have an investment in a shielder so I didn't weigh in before now, but it really ****** me off when someone tries to mock a guy for something he didn't do in order to make them self feel important; especially when that guy has already gone out of his way for them.

Earlier in this thread, you were precise and analytical...right up until you started shading Castle's words. That means you don't have an excuse for it.


My god, what a burden it must be to have your massive and incisive intellect weighed down with the need to correct the vacuous stupidities of the lesser mortals you are shackled with.

Or maybe you just read his post wrong :P.

You've chosen to interpret his statement in a way that let you tell yourself how much smarter you are than this "dumb guy", rather than what was written there.

Is 81% damage buff significant relative to other damage buffs in the game? Yes it is. It's about the size of Rage. Is it "that large" that it could account for half-again more dps? No, that would be somewhere around 115% and further north from there depending on what the Primary's +Dam tool is. 81% is less than that so no, it is literally not large enough to completely account for the difference, as Castle said. It "isn't that large", not large enough.

Castle never said that 81% was tiny, which is what you want to stuff into his mouth because it's patently absurd.

Try to read his post while pretending he's at least as smart as you and see if it makes sense.


Great. Finally. Congratulations. You've just recapitulated exactly what Castle said in the block you quoted and I linked to. Go read it and see!

But you can't admit that's what the man actually said, because then you wouldn't have ground to stand on when you try to color him incompetent. What good would that interpretation be to you? It certainly wouldn't be any fun.

Indeed, at this point if you admitted that you'd have to acknowledge you made an error instead of sneering at a guy who's taken time out of a deadline-approaching schedule to actively look in on matters that are important to you.


Having been roundly shamed by my lack of "contribution" to this thread as you colored it above, (you're right, I didn't sniff at the man when you did) I'll slink away now and let you get back to the important business of personally keeping the game from running aground through the demonstrated ignorance of the Development staff.

Actually, you did state that in the quote I made above. Also, I did look through his posts in the thread and nowhere does the word Rikti or Pylon appear. He quotes Bill Z talking about getting 200 dps out of Claws (an acknowledged high-dps set) while others in the community can hit 300 with other Primaries paired with Shields. I expect he does exactly know how AAO works as well:...

It doesn't need mentioning; AAO will be maxed out whether it's from ten Rikti monkeys or ten generic mobs from any spawn that a Shielder jumped into. Which is why the attempts in this thread to caveat the performance and tie it *only* to Pylons are silly. But it is your claim that Castle looked only at a specific case (Pylons) and made "sweeping generalizations" (when he literally has said no such thing) that is ridiculous. At best you could say that after looking at whether Shields could be the culprit he used deductive reasoning based on incorrect assumptions and came to a resulting faulty conclusion: Shield's AoE is not unusually large (wrong) and AAO's 81.3% "isn't that large" enough to account for a full half-again more DPS on top of Base + Dam Enh + Build UP/Soul Drain - therefore something odd must be going on in DM and Fire to account for the rest. You yourself stated that AAO alone can only account for a ~1/3 increase, so if the rest is not coming from Shields then strange performance seems to be coming out of the Primaries.

But even in that best case for your argument, Castle also said there might be factors in the "specific builds" that he'd have to investigate further to know for certain. It was only after that when people began discussing specifics about -Res procs involved and such.

If the problem is in one of two places and it's not in location A, it is most likely in location B. (It's a nice touch to put in the "and may still be!" bit at the end to try and keep people scared though.) No misunderstanding of the mechanics from the guy in charge of "the whole shebang". No rush to judgment. He did have incorrect information about what Shield Charge was doing in-game versus what the internal documents said it was doing, and he very professionally came out and admitted as much right here.


But don't let me detract from your narrative when you're trying to publicly get your self-righteous on.

Actually he didn't look at Rikti Pylons and make sweeping generalizations. He looked at player statements that Set A is half again as powerful as Set B and inquired if some attention was warranted (with a subtext that he hoped not). No mention was made by the contributing posters of special caveats or circumstances to qualify the acknowledged "50%" case until after the question was raised. Nor did Castle make any statement of intent or conclusions-drawn from that discussion. Indeed, what will ultimately be done about the one concrete thing to come out of the discussion (that Shield Charge was producing more damage than the internal design documents said it should) is still up in the air.

"Castle monitors the Rikti Pylon soloers to locate where to make nerfs" is a radical interpretation of the text.

Well to be fair, you earned it .

I mean, you really didn't think about those proposals at all before posting did you?

Let me grab what I think is the cutest one:
Ja, Cobber ! Gimme an Invuln Brute with 35.7% Resist to all elemental damage types and 65.4% Sm/Le before I stack Tough on top for a total of 82.2%! And that's all under a Defense layer that's stopping between 1/3 and 1/2 of incoming damage before considering Set Bonuses. Then gimme an Unstoppable that adds 41% to those elemental types and costs half my HP and Endurance three minutes later. Of course Dull Pain's slotted Recharge is also three minutes and its Heal is 60%, so even if I used it before popping Unstoppable I can be back up to maximum (boosted) HP after my "crash" in 0.73 sec.

I'd have a blast tooling around Test Server with that before sending a PM to War Witch saying that Castle & Co really needed some vacation time nao.


Never shoot from the hip. If you do it wrong there's a chance you'll end up taking the recoil to your groin.

Oh so true .

I've stared at Mids until the vultures started circling many a time...

It's not marketing hype. The Vapor-X models rely on the same technology that modern CPU coolers do and are engineered with quiet-system builders in mind.

What monitor resolution will you be running at? That's going to determine how much card you need for UM.

Regardless, the 5870 will get you Ultra Mode in just about any single-screen setup...kind of like swatting a fly with a Buick. You might consider a 5850 instead for ~$100 less. If you go the 5850 route, the Sapphire Vapor-X model is again your best-quality option.

This is good too.

Well, just by eyeballing it, it appears that it extends about the same distance on either side of the PCIe x16 slot. You can measure from the edge of the slot to the back of the case and then add the same amount (plus the length of a 6-pin plug on your power supply) on the opposite side of the slot. Regardless it should be less than the 9.6 inches of a standard ATX/micro-ATX motherboard; probably around 7.5.

If you're looking at that card, I should point out that Newegg has the (higher quality) Sapphire Vapor-X 5750 listed at the same price as the HIS card ($145), but with free shipping. It also has the standard version from Sapphire on sale for $135; again with free shipping and with a limited-time checkout promo-code for an additional $15 off.

And that you've used Driver Cleaner or some-such to get rid of any extraneous bits of previous driver versions still hanging around on the hard drive.

The new "Fermi" GTX 470 and 480 from Nvidia are rated to around 95 C in normal operation, but that has more to do with failure in engineering design than changing physical standards. North of 80 C, you probably do want to look into more aggressive cooling solutions to extend the service life of the card.


Link..

....You asked.

But again: exception-that-proves-the-rule. The 10,000 rpm Velociraptor families are all about exceptional engineering standards to begin with.

As above, it's 8.5 inches long. The micro-ATX board itself should be 9.6 inches on a side.

Err...still confused. You can "select the card" and be done in the upper right of this page. It will direct you to something like this, depending on OS.

Yup.

ATI driver issue? Which issue? If you're referring to the graphical errors ATi cards currently experience in CoX, those will disappear with issue 17's release sometime this month; that has been confirmed multiple times by the Devs.

You don't need the " 1" on the end of that flag.

Sure! To relax with after you've finished putting your new computer together.

Oh wait! You thought I meant a...<.<

Link. Getting that, the only thing you are losing over the more expensive retail-shelf version is that you don't get to call up Microsoft and complain to a call-center representative when something goes funny. You'd get better information on what to do with a google search anyway. The install disc is still a registered version of Windows and gets all of the security updates and patches.

Newegg is the site. Besides good shipping-and-return customer service and leading prices by virtue of their sales volume, the big thing is the accumulation of customer-rated reviews for different components. You get to learn from other people who discovered something (good or bad) about the item you're interested in. I usually follow a 75% 5-egg rating threshold for components; though I allow some flexibility for things that are normally finicky like motherboards.

Can you follow Youtube videos and operate a screwdriver?

People have talked about iBuypower and CyberpowerPC in this forum section; I've got no personal experience with them.

See the link to Father Xmas' $1200 gaming build in the sig of any of his posts.