Katie V

Log in on another character and send a /petition saying that your character is stuck in Cim and requesting that it be moved to another zone.

Most of my characters keep an Envenomed Dagger around to help deal with giant monsters and archvillains, and my Kin/Ice defender used temporary attacks for most of the first thirty levels to get an attack chain.

My congratulations to TransGaming, for almost catching up to where Wine was during the Issue 17 open beta.

(Wine works just fine with the 9.11 ATI drivers, and possibly with older ones.)

Note that "near" means "straight-line distance". You can log out on one side of a wall, and log in coming out a door on the other side, or in one case, log out aboveground, and log in while falling to your doom beneath Peregrine Island.

It also sounds like "not working as intended", so don't count on being able to do it in the future.

Stamina at 22 will really only matter if you're tanking a Positron TF. Other than that, the build looks good to me.

If I place a Numina's proc in Triage Beacon, who gets the benefit? Just me? Me and any allies in the area of effect? Just the beacon pseudopet?

I want more ledges and other projections on the sides of buildings. Right now, if you're superjumping across a zone, you've got two options: go roof-to-roof, or bounce off window ledges, which just doesn't feel right.

Your symptoms don't sound typical of a failing video card. Failing cards usually display graphics errors: missing or misplaced triangles, static on the surfaces of objects, black or colored lines across the screen, whole-screen tints, or the screen simply staying black.

I just figured it was a Linux bug. Good to know it isn't -- I'll adjust the AppDB report I'm preparing.

On my Electric Armor scrapper, I leave the sappers until last. I'm effectively immune to energy drain and energy attacks, so there's nothing much a sapper can do to me.

I'll do it one of three ways:
1) If an arc is highly recommended by someone in-game or on the forums.

2) If I play an arc I like, I'll search for other arcs by the same author.

3) I'll bring up the search interface, select "my level" and "four stars" (five stars indicates that an arc is new, not that it's good), and search for the mission architect tag that I'm interested in (SFMA is usually a good one for finding arcs worth playing).

There's been at least one other thread about it, and as far as anyone can tell, it's just a cosmetic problem. The actual enhancement values are what you'd expect.

I can't tell what you're trying to do here. If you're trying to build a heavyweight scrapper, you've certainly succeeded: you've got plenty of speed, and you've got enough recharge to run the Empower -> Weaken attack chain in or out of Granite.

This comes at the cost of survivability, though: outside of Granite, your defenses are on a par with a Willpower scrapper running Combat Jumping, Tough and Weave. With Granite active, you've got nice resistance numbers, but you're under-built for defense, leaving you just another tank, rather than having the extreme survivability that Granite tanks are capable of.

You also don't have Taunt. Until you pick up your epic pool, Taunt is your only reliable way of getting attention at a distance, and it greatly amplifies your ability to grab and hold aggro.

As a minimal change, I'd switch the Impervium Armor: Psionic Resistance in Granite for a level 50 common defense IO, gaining 4.5% to defense.

As a more extreme change, I'd drop Pyre Mastery and Hover in exchange for Boxing, Tough, Weave, and Taunt. Properly slotted, Weave will give you another 7.8% defense. You can use Boxing as a set mule to hold five pieces of Hecatomb, giving the same bonuses that Ragnarok in Fire Ball did; alternatively five pieces of Red Fortune or four pieces of Perfect Zinger give you half the recharge bonus, freeing up some slots to move around (say, put a Steadfast Protection: Def 3% somewhere).