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Originally Posted by Effy_On_Malibu

My build suggestions wont increase the price, Maybe even lower it, check the black market obliterations cost ALOT, whereas my suggestion cost nothing compared.

Check it all out man.

The only reason mines with so much is because i have purp sets, all 3 heal uniques, 5 lotg 7.5s etc.

That build you have is around a mills worth, not including the purp set you've put in.

Originally Posted by Effy_On_Malibu

Overal not to bad. I'll give you some pointers.

Far to many slots in Elude, if your soft capped, you won't even use it, let alone 6 slot it.

You don't need to use touch of death, as you don't need so much melee defence my widow has around 65% defence to all 3 positionals including ML.

In spin slot 5 Scirrocos dervish, for the AoE defence, obliterations are a waste, you don't need the melee defence they give.

In foresight put in a steadfast +3% it'll give more defence the the 6 slotting you've done with red fortune.

Combat training defensive and mask pressence arn't capped with 3 lotgs, slot 2 lotgs an 2 gift of ancients, giving both recov an regen, my widow is at 28hp a sec, an 3.72 end a sec.

Health isn't capped, you'll need 4 numinas.

Slot 3 blessing of zephrs an a stealth io in combat jump.

Loose soul tentacles, it's not needed, an a wasted power one slotted. your attacks do - run speed, so you dont need a hold power that much.

Stamina is ok, i've 5 slotted with efficancy adapters though.

So 1 slot elude, an use the slots in the above.

Fine tune it, my widow is fully pimped now, worth around 4bill in todays game, absolute love it, has taken 7 respecs to get it spot on though.

I don't post my build online, but feel free to message me for tips etc.

Originally Posted by LuxunS

You're quite a bit over the soft-cap for melee/range, which isn't a bad thing if it was your goal, gives a little more padding for defense debuffs. However, you're short on AoE defense. If you shift some slots from elude to combat jumping, a BoTZ set will give you the AoE defense you need.

Also, you don't have a travel power, not sure if you did that purposely or for concept reasons. If you drop hasten and pick up 20% more recharge you can keep mind link up all the time without it. That would leave you room for super jump (unless you were doing no travel powers for concept, didn't see it stated). Also the way you slotted attacks adds a lot of defense, but it does bad things to the attack chain if you wanted a continuous one, if you team and aren't looking to do really high-end stuff this isn't much of a concern.

Originally Posted by Redmanfx

Funny that maint today is to fix the servers that they just admitted had instability issues. In addition they apologized for the bad server performance and will be giving us another double xp weekend because of it. So you are wrong, wrong on most of what you just said. And BTW if the server is acting up then it does not mean everyone will have issues.

Originally Posted by Radionuclide

To address 2, every single one of those MMO's traffic will take a different path to arrive at the companies servers. Just like every website you visit. Rarely is traffic sent directly between client and server. Generally, it is passed along from client to host, to host, to host. The amount of hops will vary. Packet loss and lag (a delay in the information being received between hosts) can happen any where along the route. Based on that route while it can be subjectively compared (I don't lag while playing on this game while I do here), it cannot really be objectively compared unless the path is identical which is just not going to happen. Then and only then can you compare them directly.

Which leads us to 3, if the lag is occurring somewhere in the route between your client and theirs it most certainly is not NCSoft's responsibility to fix it. Now they can certainly pinpoint the problem area based on problem reports submitted through customer service requests and reach out to the owner of the host with the problem. With the hope that they resolve it but, it is ultimately the owner of that hosts issue to resolve.

Regarding 4, as I have said before, others do not have this problem. This does not discount that you are or that others are. There are two problems with the statement: 1) it is just as anecdotal as saying I do not and neither do the people I talk to in game and 2) If it was specific to the Server itself then EVERYONE would have this issue, just as I stated before. I know that is not the case. Why? Because of my anecdotal evidence, I don't have the issue. You can believe it or not. Regardless, I have direct information that eliminates this as a cause. You saying others have it will not change that fact.

BTW, both Guardian and Justice are in the same location. It is unsurprising that both do not have lag for you.

--Rad

Originally Posted by Shard_Warrior

Played pretty much non-stop all weekend, dual boxing it on my laptop and had no lag issues whatsoever.

Where is the evidence to support these claims? For all you know, it is a hardware driver issue on your computer or a problem somewhere between you and the server.


Please do. We can do without these cross-server spamming/whining posts.

IBTL

Originally Posted by DumpleBerry

Hi, I'm having issues, too. Someone is spamming cross-posted messages across all the forums.

Originally Posted by bpphantom

As I can see from you chart... It's not NCS/PS's problem at all. Please use the myriad of tools available on the web and contact the tech support section of the company that owns that node and inform them of their issue.

Again, your evidence indicates that it is NOT Paragon Studios/NC Soft's problem.

EDIT: There is a config tool that was provided to us by NCS that actually tries connections to the various login servers and DBServers. Poke around a little and do some research.

Originally Posted by Zombie_Man

Unfortunately this is typical for Double XP w.e. and in the past, where it was worse, there was no do-over; so, don't expect a do-over for this case.

Even on non-2xWEs, the servers can start to become unstable on Sunday evening. They just get increasing unstable with hard use. That's why there's a server maintenance and reset every Mon and Fri. Again, it used to be worse and they had to have maintenance every day. Also, it used to be that one would expect a busy server like Virtue to crash every Sunday night.

I know that saying "it's not as bad now as it used to be," doesn't resolve anything... it's just the way things are. It would be like having a two hour wait to be seated at a very busy restaurant at a peak time at a peak season.