The Grim Heaper

I might be a bit late, but; Tech boards are up thar ^ (under 'development')
Look at the helpful tips & posting guide, and provide your hijackthis and CoHhelper logs. "fast system" don't mean jack without the specs and up-to-date drivers to back it up.

If I had to guess, however, I'd say you - as a returning player - have a number of the ultramode settings higher than your system can handle. Try turning ambient occulsion way the heck down/off. That was the main culprit for my system.

Same setting my claws/sr ran it at... the funny part was that because the ambushes more or less aggro'd upon spawning, first thing engineers did was call their turrets; but the turrets didn't follow them. After I was done, I had some fun getting frostfire to help me with a hallway full of turrets.

Well, at least they gave us a nice map... granted the paragon city map was from CoH release in 2004, and is all kinds of out of date (They haven't yet updated the maps in the tram stations in game either, last I checked)

Honestly, I was considering saying this in my suggestion (I can count the times I've cared about someone's origin on zero hands), then I thought, "No, with my luck that would draw in the few crazy people who do use the origin filter, and the bickering would detract from the overall suggestion."

Now if only they could work out the tech to get a similar number on the horizontal... and still fit on my desk.

Couldn't have cost ya too much; how many did you buy? ô.o
Well, those are the main four, but there's also (recharge intensive)pet and sniper sets that deal in primarily in damage, that's all. If I had to hazard a guess, I'd say they varied the damage vector sets for a few reasons;
-One, Ranged Damage and Targeted Aoe can and do take the occasional range (also sniper takes interrupt), and in their infinite wisdom, they've seen fit to be stingy with end reduction for PBAoEs.
-Two, force the use of certain proc types to certain vectors (I'd imagine certain things like the "chance for hold" and "chance for self heal" would be hugely popular in damage AoEs, where they'd have a better chance to trigger due to more targets being hit)
-Three, varied set bonuses, making it harder to do any "one size fits all" IO build for damage oriented powersets (also allowing us to use more than one purple set in damage powers)
-Four, they may have learned a thing or two about "unintended side effects" of allowing multi-aspect enhancements in certain powers that ended up enhancing things that they weren't intended to enhance. I think there might still be a couple Hamidon origin loopholes that aren't closed.

Sadly, many of the 3rd party games retain their existing DRM, and Steam is just an advertizing/distributing platform with social networking built in.

Yeah, but one of those good viruses. Like luck, or love.

As far as I'm aware, no; the Complete Collection item pack (costumes, stances, auras, and the power) does not come with the free month.

No... No they do not. o.o
They do not take universal travel.
EDIT; mids nothing, I triple-checked in game, making sure there wasn't an i18 change i wasn't aware of. Sprints have not, for a very long time, accepted universal travel sets. I do not say "have not ever" because I'm unsure if, at very first they did, but that it was taken away. It is for the simple reason that the devs do not want to give a large advantage to veterans by giving them 4 free slots to place slow resist and KB proection.

Except for that last one, sure...

Well the Bolded parts would explain a whole lot, but riddle me this; How did he fit those two anywhere in sprint, quickness, swift and/or hurtle?

That... Sounds like a lot of wasted slots, honestly. And not just adding slots to sprint & swift & such... but... 4 slots? 3 I can see... but with 4 you're going way over the ED effectiveness cap, no?

Guy at my EB said that; at this point, the date's just going to keep moving back in ~3 day increments until they get it in. So I should check in every few days. It was around this point that I walked out of the store, and flipped the clerk the bird as he wished me a nice day. It wasn't his fault, but I needed someone to vent my annoyance at.

Same... although I get the runspeed cap of 92.5. I slotted elude with BoTZ

Hover for in missions. With swift/quickness slotted for fly, it moves me at a sufficient rate from mob to mob, and there's always the jump pack for a little extra speed when I need it.

Main travel power is Teleport. (with the added bonus of two BoTZ mules )
Yes, I know BoTZ isn't what it used to be, but it's still something and I don't feel like reworking the build.

Huh... well I stand corrected on pretty much all counts I guess (Could've sworn I regularly saw UPS deliveries to the local store.... could just as easily be Purolater, I suppose.) In either case, I strongly suspect that it is Gamestop, and not the vendor. Vendor problems certainly are possible, But I've run into too many 3-6 day delays from official release with them.

I got that too - couldn't TP to contact, and posi in SC wouldn't advance the TF... could only use the call button in the contact window.