Memphis_Bill

Rumors are worth less than you pay for them.

Silly question here - did you actually claim the respec token? If they're just sitting in vet rewards, they're not actually available to use yet, you need to claim it just like you would the nemesis/blackwand/sands/pets.

(Edit: Also, the only ones you can use /respec on are freespecs - won't work with the vet respecs.)

BS/SR if you want to kill your END bar faster than anything else.

... don't ask me how I know.

Currently running a KM/SR Brute, though, which is a bit of fun. Only in the low 20s ATM though.

There are as many ways to write a guide as there are reasons, types and subjects.

If you haven't written one before, my first bits of advice would be:
- Consider your subject.

For instance, you said you wanted to write guides for scrappers. A "Guide to Scrappers" would be... well, simply a huge undertaking. You probably don't want to tackle that on your first outing. Trim it down to (say) a "Broadsword scrapper's guide" and see how that goes.

- Consider the subject, part 2

What do you have to say about it? There IS such a thing as a guide that's too short or otherwise.... well, not to be unkind, but useless. Or one that's long but says nothing. What do you have to say about it? What CAN you say to make the guide better?

- Give yourself an outline.

This helps with the second part, especially with initial guides. If I were writing a BS scrapper's guide, for instance, I'd probably break it down much like my fiery aura overview. Something like:

• Intro - who am I, why am I writing this
• Powers - The set itself
• IOs that may be useful
• How it works with secondaries (/SR does this, /Regen does this) and what pools may be helpful
• Special info (You can customize, you can get custom sword graphics by doing XYZ, etc.)
• Exit/thanks/acknowledgements

Just for a rough idea before getting started.

- Stay on target

Are you saying enough? Are you starting to ramble? Is what you're talking about totally off base? (I can be bad at going off on tangents. I know it. I talk.)

- PROOFREAD and SPELL CHECK!

Seriously. if i red ur gide an ur spelin lyk this an have no punshuashn bcuz its online not englesh klas so losen up lozr lulz.... I'm stopping after the first sentence or two and considering you rather dense. I don't mean the occasional spelling error here, either - everyone does that. But this is you presenting yourself - do you want to be taken seriously or not? If not, why are you spending time on this? (This does also include using the proper form of words - there is not the same as their or they're, to, two and too mean completely different things, and if you say you're going Rouge I'll point you toward a Mary Kay salesperson.)

- Tone

Try not to be preachy. You can be informative without it. It can be somewhat dry reading, though - so put a little personality in it. Hell, I like to be downright conversational in mine. For another fun to read guide, go find "The MFing Warshade."

- Beta readers!

I *usually* put mine up in the appropriate section before putting them here. The Kheldian lore guide, for instance, was in the Kheld forum for a while getting chewed over before I put it in the Guides section. I'll often ask one or two people to look it over before doing THAT. And don't be afraid to make changes AFTER it's posted - I'll point at my FA guide for this. You'll see in the comments people saying "Oh, that's this way for scrappers," which - since I was writing it primarily from a tank viewpoint - needed changing for the Brute and Scrapper variants. Take criticism for what it is - an attempt to help out, not an attack on you or your guide (unless someone IS being that way.) And be nice and give some credit, too.


- Have fun

Really. If you're not getting paid to do it, you should be doing it for fun (or to make money later, but that doesn't happen with guides.) If it feels like work, step away from it for a while. When I did the MA tutorials for the release of the Architect issue, I didn't want to write another guide ever again. You can see them in ParagonWiki, as well as searching here - that was a long set of guides, and things have changed since then. I haven't gone back to change them because it is, again, a LOT of work.

Buying it... tomorrow. x2

You can't go to just any tailor, there's one called the... gah, I forgot, something like super tailor or some such - or I believe Trina in the Pocket D tiki room. Steel canyon, should be the one all the way in the back on the right when you enter.

Take screenshots? At least for the short term.

I'd agree with all of the above *in the current session,* but not historical... for one simple reason. If I've added (say) storage racks, or added, deleted and readded, what happens to the stored items? They're not likely the same, even if there's room for them - and what if there isn't room for them?

And yeah, the base editor needs updating. (An offline one would be nice, too.)

See also "Coming in Issue 19."

All (non server) versions of Windows - xp, vista, 7 - can run COH. Doesn't much care about 32 or 64 bit. (Don't know about XP x64, but I almost never run into it.)

No real difference between Home, Pro, Ultimate as far as COH is concerned.

Interesting.

(And not like the space station hadn't been mentioned in the *old* Praetorian arc... *cough* >.> )

Silly question...

Why is the PC not hooked up to the router?
Why not just get a USB wireless dongle for the PC? They can be had rather cheaply.

If you want to go the way you're going, hey, great, just seems like more hassle to me than is needed.