Master_Armantus

Oh, right... the channel that now plays nothing but Ghost Hunters all day long, the show that has a couple of daytime Roto-Rooter employees running around screaming while at the same time offering no solid proof of the existence of ghosts, even after being given several seasons on the air?

Yeah, actually, that might make a fun char. to RP

I always thought my concept of Princess Frostworth was original, until after several months had passed and I started piecing together almost blatant similarities between her and other popular comic/fantasy characters. To be brief, she comes from royalty in a Dark Realm (Princess Kitana/Outworld from Mortal Kombat?) and ends up banished to live on Earth (Thor from Marvel Comics?). Anyway, the longer I live the more I realize that anything I think may be original has been done a thousand times before. My philosophy is I treat this game as a community, and as long as you can be original within those confines, that's all that really matters. You can't avoid being unoriginal when you take on a much broader approach.

Yep, enabling Tool Tips did it. Thanks!

Pretty much. Tanks and scraps are almost eliminated entirely from the list of CM candidates due to innate protections, and the remaining AT's aren't all going to need CM all the time either. A good empath knows what to look for and CM's accordingly, and leaves much more time for...

Did I essentially repeat what you just said? Long story short...

Ditto.

Serum is one of the only powers that I've taken in the past that's actually caused me to faceplant as a direct result of using it!

So, fighting an AV, slowly but effectively doing just enough to outdamage its regen, and then I think to myself "What the hell, I'll shoot up my Commando with this awesome sounding Serum!" Well, he basically performed the same, and after a minute or so he CRASHES! Thus allowing the AV to kill him with ease, leaving me to lose my edge in outdamaging its regen, while I'm left to scramble trying to resummon him while the other pets get picked off one by one because I'm too busy to buff/heal them.... and I faceplant. So yes, I blame Serum!

Anyway, haven't respec'ed out of Serum and haven't looked back, and by the sound of it it's still just as worthless.

The AT's name may or may not have to be changed due to obvious copyright infringement. And essentially this would be a blaster, but better in every possible way. At the very least it would need to have a much lower base damage than a Blaster, much like the difference between a Scrapper and a Brute.


Sleeper Agent would need an accuracy check, so you can't just run up to a minion 10 levels higher than you and snag it. Also, I could see giving the power a Mag 3, so that minions and lieutenants are covered, but bosses and higher would require several applications of the power for success.


This AT has almost zero solo capability. As others have pointed out, the devs are trying to steer clear of that. I do like Karma, though. But the AT really needs some sort of offensive capability.


Bravado sounds too OP. The heal would have to scale with Health, much like how resistance scales with health in the Super Reflexes power set. The buff would have to be removed from the power, unless the heal is so small it does almost nothing, or if the chance of healing is equally small.


Again, possible copyright infringement (on the DC comics character of the same name). I could see this working if the control powers do very, very little damage or none at all, because I'm assuming "Wild Card" is a purely offensive set and you've already labeled the AT as doing High damage.

Other than that, very imaginative and creatively thought out!

Thugs/Pain is always a fun one. Essentially you can solo well with any Mastermind, but with Thugs you can throw out "Gang War" and have more pets out than any other set in the game.

Hero side the popular pet set is Illusion Control from the Controller archetype. You don't have the pet commanding capabilities hero side like you have with Masterminds, but Illusionists are extremely effective in their own right. You get to summon 3 sets of pets (Phantom Army, Spectral Terror, Phantasm), and they cannot be killed.

AoE -to hit debuffs, paired with team defense buffs? Dark Control/Cold Doms and Dark/Bubblers could become a team favorite.

They have both (it's a dual core) only ever gotten as high as 41 C, which is AFAIK pretty acceptable.

The vents are spotless. And yes, I'm using a laptop cooler, and there's no difference in performance whether it's turned on or off.

High Performance didn't help, unfortunately.

Again, no luck.




According to Speed Fan, my laptop does not always shut off at a certain temperature. Sometimes the GPU is only 44 C when it happens., other times it can reach up to 60 C. The one thing that IS common each time it shuts off, is that I have logged in a character. Sometimes the shut off happens instantly, sometimes it takes a few minutes. But it always, ALWAYS happens once a character is logged in (no matter which character). And again, I've tried this in Safe Mode a million times, and it makes absolutely no difference.

I am beginning to think the problem is faulty hardware... either a bad battery, video card, vent fans, or I don't know. According to HP the hardware is working perfectly fine (this is after I sent it in for them to check up on it a couple weeks ago). I hope they're right.

I monitored the GPU's temperature using Speed Fan before and after updating the NVidia driver, and it seems to rise quickly to 60 degrees Celsius (about 140 F) by the time I can log in a character. This happens pre- and post- driver update. I am currently using NVidia version 197.16 for Vista 64 bit notebooks.

You may be right about the fans not working properly. They are running, that much is certain, but they do not adjust at all to the added heat when running CoX. When using Speed Fan, however (using what limited knowledge I have), I cannot get them to display on the configuration menu, nor under any other tab, as if they are not being recognized.

It's a good idea, but as long as the various stats being enhanced are more evenly distributed amonst the 7 pieces. Others have made the suggestion to simply "add" a stat with the 7th recipe, which would potentially make that one recipe ridiculously over-demanded.

Of course, the devs won't be able to take existing sets and shuffle stat bonuses around like that, so they would have to make new sets entirely for this purpose. It would take a lot of strain off of the demand for other sets, and of course add more breathing room in your choices of enhancements. And one of the BIGGEST drawback about having only 6 recipes per set, is that some sets have a special proc that only allows one per build, so you're screwed if you try to slot the entire set twice... *cough* Gaussian's *cough* Numina *cough* Miracle *cough* etc...

Sounds like an intriguing TV show... what's the plot? Who writes the script? Director's name? What's the protagonist's name?

Sorry, just breakin' some balls here

Or play through a Dr. Quarterfield TF start to finish, and you'll know no matter what you're late for something...

The clock is a simple enough idea. I just refer to the alarm clock in my peripheral vision for the time, but an in-game clock would make things slightly more convenient. Same rules apply to CoX as they do on the road... never take your eyes off!