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Dark Armor: Soul Transfer.

Okay its got a silly strong disorient attached to it, but unlike other self-rez powers, you need something to hit to activiate, and even then, the hp restored is based on the targets hit. By far the worst of the self-rez powers, and really just a sad tier 9 power in general.

And of cource, for those running 32-bit systems, having a 2GB video card means you only have 2GB of physical RAM thats addressable. You could get worse performance because you wont have the phyiscal RAM available for loading programs.
For me, I wont bother with a card over 896Mb until I switch to 64-bit because I dont want to eat into my RAM any more than I have to.

Even with the <sarcasm> tags removed, I know you are joking. I mean seriously, the Engrish is horrible. Even Elk can type better than that.

I think we poked to a 3:16 finish.
Started with 6, ended with 5 (dc'ed not dropped about 4 missions in....)

Nothing flashy. Took my Dark/DP Defender from 4->10 just before TFT, and from 10->15.5 on the task force. I still dont have a single enhancment slotted =P But I haz 66 merits nao.

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Logged in. Ran a mission. Logged off.

Thats it. 1 Mission all weekend. Woot.

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Slot the Chance for +End in Dark Regen. It only has to hit 1 target to cover its cost. =)

Needz maor caobell.

In the "Arena Loading Room" in PI.
(Its an artifact room from i4 when players were beamed into this special room before entering the real arena battle. Only accessable by going to a doorway on Monster Isle. Then logging out, and back in.)

Double XP weekend. No excuse to not hammer out Leader.

I think of all the badges, that was by far the most painful getting twice (once per side).

The double whammy of Dual Pistols and Closed Beta took its toll on the numbers, but mad props to all those that still showed up.

Next month might mean i17 drops on TT, so I'm not going to plan anything specific, but if it does drop, I'm looking towards tanking through the new arcs.

See everyone next month.

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Its still a kite-fest if you get an open map. And while PvE builds (at least mine) do respectable against PvP builds, expect to be fodder until you get the hang of it. The upswing is that the numbers are equal. The downside is that based on your captain, you can be on the ownage side or the owned side. If your captain is calling targets etc, chances are you'll enjoy it more as your team will be operating as a team. If team chat is silent... you're probably already dead before reading this sentence.

Without seeing the contract, anything on this line is purely speculation.

Pics or it didn't happen =P

Anyways, I gotta pass on it tonight (and TT for that matter). Got a hockey game at 830pmC tonight. RL tanking.

Have fun.

Back to the topic at hand:

Without some level of graphical tweeking, bushy tails will suck. I hate using Second Life as an example, but they do have some pretty nice looking tails in there, unfortunately they have some steep prim counts attached to them, at least the good ones. The low prim count ones look like CO's tails.

As for multi-tails.... okay not even Second Life can make them look right. After 1 or 2, it just looks like you have feather duster on your butt. Lets just keep it to one.

Oh no... dont you threadjack and fault me for observing.

Kage is a great con chair and a great guy. (I think he's still chairing AC). There are some really great furs out there. My wife and I got a nice tour of DisneyWorld on our honeymoon by Herbie Bearclaw (a disney animator at the time). Randy let me come on the PawPet show twice. I've got a bag full of great stories.

And then there is the bag of OMG stories. Something happens between face to face interaction and that through the monitor. Not to say that it doesn't happen with less fuzzy avatars, but furs seem to just go the extra mile in this regard. That's one of the reasons why I quietly dropped out of the fandom some years ago. Seems like you couldn't find a social furry hangout that wasn't turning into a cybersex corner.

Perhaps I am a little over-reactive. I'll concede that willingly. But don't try to pass me off as an ignorant mundane.

Look forward to all the new exploration badges... nope. Bleh.

The city is wonderful and pretty... but I've already seen every piece of it.. more than once. Now I get to tour it again. Woo frickin hoo.

Seriously. Maybe if the devs required you to be in Ultra-Mode to get the new badges, then maybe I would go for it (because it would restore my faith that the devs hate us.) But really, double the explorations..... *meh*

Who said anything about money? I was talking merits.
(Anyways, read the thread about people worrying that they will remove the non-existant items from WWs, destroying thier bank. I have coin... but not so much I need to place bogus 2B bids at WW to store it. By thier standards, even Im a pauper.)

Lets see... Parent-Teacher conferences this thursday.... hockey on sunday. It would appear that "I Don't Know" isn't playing his position.

Not like i need the merits or anything anymore. =P

Im so on the fence here.

Okay, animated tails. Good.
Bushy animated tails.. Ok.
Proliferation of "furry" RP'ers... not so good.

This could go tragically wrong. The only saving grace would be that "bushy" tails would require some extra texture mapping (probably available with Ultra mode) that isn't the cheapest effect to produce, lest the "bushy" tail appears more solid than airy. I think the best low-tech tail effect I've seen was Fox McCloud's tail in Star Fox Adventures (which wasn't that bad of a game even if it killed the star going franchise).


But while Im exercising my brain that way:

New Attack Set:
Feral:
(1) Claw Swipe : Med Damage +rech
(2) Gouge : Med Damage, -tohit
(3) Leg/Tail whip : PbAoE, low damage, knockdown
(4) Build Up
(5) Bite: Heavy damage
(6) Confront/Taunt
(7) Feral Swipe : Superior damage, -Def, -regen(minor)
(8) Rapid Fury : Cone, 45deg arc, Heavy damage, -Heal -Regen
(9) Nature's Wrath : Click. Self +Rech +Dam. -Dam -Rech after 60seconds.

2 Minor Combos:
Taste of Blood: Feral Swipe, Claw Swipe, Bite : Self Heal
Gaia's Embrace: Rabid Fury, Gouge, Tail/Leg whip : +Res(all)



Back under the bridge i go....

Almost that time again, and thanks to the quirks of the calander, we get 5 Tuesdays this month. Check the Tanker forums for other servers that will occupying the other Tuesdays, but March 2nd is Champion's TT night.

However, I will be needing someone to rally the troops for me as I will on a Hockey Taskforce that night until about 930pmC.

The Details:

Tanker Tuesday
Champion Server
IP Gate in Kings Row
8pmC/9pmE

Positron Task Force Update: This Task Force has been split into two halves and dramatically upgraded and updated to ramp up the fun. The final battle of the Task Force takes place in the Faultline Dam and incorporates the new Dark Mirror enemy.



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Posi is like a hazing ritual. Leave it be as a brutal test of will.

Its been established you can pick your graphics mode, I think his inquiry was rather, can anything but a Fermi/59xx or 295 watercooled handle a full zone Hami raid (or mothership raid.... oofa!)

I would imagine you would need top end i7 + a very new video card to deal with it. Come april, Im sure someone will try.

Just a point of reference.

The fastest State's TFs I've done were Master's runs, successful ones at that (and yes plural).
A little more pre-planning and focus on execution goes a long way.
Same for Hami. Analyze the pieces and find the weak spot. As I recall, BaB's was quoted as stating he was surprised we haven't figured out (the new) Hami's weakness yet. Not sure if the recent mito strat is what he meant, but raids near 30mins must mean we are on to something.