Shocklust

Thanks for the help all. I think I'm gonna go with the 6770.

I was looking at the Radeon 7750 for $109. http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16814121633

I do have both 4 GB of ram and 64 bit Win7. I also bought 8 gb more of ram which I should have by Wednesday.

Are PCI-E 3.0 backwards compatible with 2.0 motherboards?

Thanks, what level of video card would I need to start seeing significant changes?

I am thinking about updating my video card but I want to stay around $100. I currently have a Nvidia Geforce GT 240 and I am thinking about going to the GT 440. Is there a big enough difference between these two cards to warrant a change? Any Suggestions?

My specs are:

AMD PHENOM II X4 965 3.4 GHZ BLACK ED
4 GB DDR3 PC3 PC1333
EVGA NVIDIA GT 240 1 GB PCI-E 16X
ASUS M4A77TD AM3 DDR3 AMD 770 AMD
AZZA CYBERPOWER 600 WATT POWER SUPPLY
320GB SATA II 3GB 16MB 7200RPM HD
Windows 7 64 bit

Thanks for any help you can provide.

Shocklust

You might also explain how the reward table works, specifically how often you can get an Alignment merits.

This may have been said already. Back in the day prior to the market and IO's. I just teamed straight thru to lvl 22 and did not buy any TO and SO's. By 22, i had enough to purchase my 1st set of SO's or at least the critical SO's. By level 32, i was earning inf fast enough that I did not have trouble all the way to 50.

Since your wife is new to the game, if she never uses DO's she wont know whats missing. Just push through to 22 and get SO's.

Even now that i have billions of inf. I rarely slot DO's and then its mainly end mod and end reducers.

you spend it!

The biohazards are gone in my base also...now it's just blank.

Nice list. I would love to see some action take place on it.

Be sure to read the rules to get the feedback.

If I recall correctly, non-incarnate softcap is 45% and incarnate softcap is 69%, so if you plan on Incarnate content I would not worry about s/l at 46%.

Go back and read some of the older guides to learn about SO slotting. I believe IO's hit in I9 so look at pre-I9 guides.

I would definitely take tough and weave.

I'm at work so i can't open the build. So the only thing I can comment on is the Hasten. Hasten gives +70% recharge when active. If you put this back into your build, your global recharge will be something like +113% about half the time. Nearly every build i know of that has perma-anything (perma-dom and perma-Phantom Army, for example) has hasten in it.

How about a dark blast/poison cor or */pois MM. I think goes well with Halloween. Mad scienctist, aka Dr. jekyll and Mister Hyde. A cursed mummy or diseased zombie.

I'm thinking about seeing if the wife wants to create Halloween themed toons. Thanks for the idea.

I miss the old EM.

That said if you solo alot with the difficulty at least +0/x4 you will not have any trouble getting fury. If you plan on teaming make sure you have a very effective damage aura and avoid using TF and ET much. In fact, whirling hands is better to use in a team situation.

Happy Birthday Ele!

She let her subsciption lapse, but I did see her last Friday as a Premium player. So be on the look up out in a Zone near you!

I'm glad all of Freedom is here!

That said, I hate the new website.

Where is all the old content?

Where is all the information about past issues?
Patch notes?
Server status?
lore?


Coh.com is useless to anyone but new free players. It has nothing for returning Premium players or current VIPs.

Made to 1250 finally on Justice. Sitting at 1254 now (i think).

On the Official Site, there is an ad on the top right for the COH Freedom VIP Starter Kit. When I click on it, it takes me to the NCSoft store but gives an error. What is this VIP Starter kit?

Will MARTy affect this method?

I'm reviewing:

Title: The Mechanical Menace
Author Global: @Justaris
Arc ID: 510129
Keywords: Challenging, Non-Canon, Sci-Fi
Length: 4 missions
First Published: 7/20/2011
Morality: Heroic
Enemy Groups: Custom
Difficulty Level: High
Estimated time required: 1-2 hours
Description: A few months after the appearance of dozens of robotic Tin Mages in Paragon City, robot thieves storm the city stealing high-tech equipment. Tin Mage Mk. V, leader of the Tin Mage Corps, maintains the innocence of the Tin Mages, but he needs your help to prove it. While this arc is open to any level range, it includes difficult custom enemies and an AV in the final mission, so higher-level and/or larger groups are recommended.


Mission 1: This was straight forward get the glowies mish.

Positive Feedback: All the custom enemies have computer/tech related names. Corrupted File. Fragmented, Cutting Edge, PEBKAC (i admit i don't know this stands for), etc.

Negative Feedback: No one said anything. So the enemies just seemed to be there guarding the glowies but were not connected to the story. Add some flavor text to the mission. This will invest your custom enemy group into the story line better. Maybe add an optional boss fight, perhaps a generic boss who is leading the raid to steal the tech.

Mission 2: Rescue 3 Hostages.

Positive Feedback: Again, more tech related villain names, all except Exsanguinator. I probably should complain that this does not match the theme, but Exsanguinator is too awesome of a name . Another great name was Spam Knight...I almost quit to make a toon called that. I lol'ed when one of the hostage bots said "I am not the droid you are looking for" to his captors. Classic! We meet and defeat Firewall. Firewall helps advance the story by introducing the real villain of the story arc, The Menace.

Negative Feedback: The Exsanguinator, I guess.

Mission 3: Secure the database at the Tin Mage Corps Base to learn about The Menace.

Positive Feedback: Nice, more classic Star Wars quotes. Backgrounds on the Tin Mages were good. It made them more than bots.

Negative Feedback: There are several in-process battles between the Tin Mages and the invading bots. However, unless you see one in process you don't know they are going on. Add some flavor text to the battles to create more immersion.

Mission 4: You and Tin Mage V take down the Menace.

Positive Feedback: The AV/EB was challenging. I fought an EB since I was solo on my blaster. I had to use all my Incarnate powers to survive and win. But no deaths. Thrilling! It may have been easier if I had not superspeeded away from the helper npc, Tin Mage V. The second time I ran this arc was with a level 25 brute. I died. The EB/AV is a MM who drops all six MM pets and I believe there were two ambushes during the battle. I was completely overwhelmed. The second attempt on my brute I brought a whole tray of purples and that seemed to do the trick. The last fight is challenging. I think maybe too challenging for non-Incarnate level 50 squishy.

Negative Feedback: The map chosen was hazy with smoke making it a little tough to find the 6 glowies. You could replace the glowies with a brighter ones that are easier to see, but I would not do that since the glowies matched the story perfectly. Maybe speed up the glowie complete bar.

Conclusion
I thought this was a very enjoyable story arc. The custom enemies were challenging but did not seem overwhelming, except possibly the final EB/AV fight. However, with a full team this may not be an issue. I also liked the connection to the game canon as well as the expansion off of it into a player created SG.

Overall: 5/5. Enjoyable. Easy to finish in around 90 minutes.


Ok, now my arc. I wrote this story arc way back when MA came out. It's only had like 10 people try it though it has 4 stars. Just curious what you all think. I ran through it today caught some typos. I think it's in pretty much finished form.

"The Black Theorem"
Arc ID: 3608
Length: Very Long
Hero 40-54
Missions: 5
Genre: Canon-i guess.