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Tech support answered me back already with a cut and paste for me to upload some text files from a nifty little program that goes in and gives them all my system info... I had my hopes up.

Then they responed with another cut and paste answer directing me back to the FAQ page I had already checked before submitting the ticket.

I hope this can be resolved, I am having flashbacks on why I quit the game before now... It was tech support... I did a quest once for a temp power and didnt get it, submitted a ticket and was given a canned response, I did it again and it didnt work... I decided to persist and kept replying to the canned cut and paste responses... anyhow after a week of no help on this stupid issue I wondered where my $15 a month went to, and quit the game, I may just give up again...useless tech support.

I have already checked settings and verified the files, also I have sound in all other applications and games, I am more curious about known isues with Vista.

I am also wondering if i delete certain files and then re-verify if they might fix it and wich files to delete.

I am doing the free trial for the weekend, after 4 hours of patch downloads and trying for several hours to fix this issue, I dont have time to wait for the technical support though I have already thrown in a ticket.

I have been through the FAQ already and have verified I have no viruses, I also manualy checked my .pigg files and they are all there.

I have been thinking if signing back up again for a long time but I doubt I will be back anytime soon the way things are going unfortunatly.

After looking forward to this for a month I am sad I cant get it to work.

Hello,

I just logged in today for the first time in about six months, and found I have no sound for the game at all.

I am running windows Vista, and all my drivers are up to date, does anyone have an idea for a fix to this?

Is this a known issues?

Great Guide,

Though I know with a whole lot of a lot of running around and target switching etc. you can tank just fine without taunt on an Ice tank, but there is no EASY way to tank everything without taunt, even on ice.

Yes take taunt, great guide. I want to boot every non taunting tank from the team also, I certainly dont invite them to the supergroup.

And if I can add, dont pull to "HERE" when "HERE" isnt as short a pull as "THERE", at the corner or box right beside the mobs.

Fantastic guide , just posting to give it a bump

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Yeah like you being in the #1 sg on the server doesnt make you look like a nerd, go down to a construction sight and try and explain that to the guys there.

Sadly we all look like nerds for playing this game, but oh well, Bill Gates is the richest man in the world.

I have 4 old X-box controllers laying around , I may try this, ty for the info.

Id like to add, I made an Energy Ice blaster after reading and writing here, just to see what its all about, and found that by running around a lot as i did ae Knockbacks, I could get all the mobs back in the tanks ae aggro, kiting them into it and ducking around corners etc.

Also I often will ae knockback ahead of the tank and duck around a corner behind him, so they run through his ae aggro again, its simular to herding.

I learned that I could practicaly function as a tank if I had a healer to back me up, by kiting a lot or hovering.

When I play my tank now and I see an energy blaster pick out mobs, and concentrate on them, I just let him go for it unless I see his health drop Ill taunt through him.

So basicaly, although I still hate random uncontrolled knockbacks when Im on the tank, I do understand that for a class like an energy blaster there all they have to attack with, and can be very effective with or without a tank if used properly.

Could just knock them all in a corner also, that helps, some of the peeps I play with a lot, use it that way.

Re: Knockbacks

This is a very good post and touches on many things that were well said but there is one thing in it that makes me post my first post on these Forums.

Knockbacks and my tank (Ice Energy)

I like to run in and grab as many mobs as i can, I do this by running past them and letting my AE slow aggro them, this slows them down nice so they can't destroy me with thier range attacks as i run enormous amounts of mobs towards the group. I then duck out of sight from them all, around the corner so they are forced to run all the way to me and begin thier attack. (herding)

So here I am in a wonderful position, I have 15 or so mobs beating on me, all being ae slowed (making them not hurt so much), geting all hit by my icey spikes (ae damage), and my whirling hands (ae damage + stun) and most of them still trying to attack me, but they cant get past thier buddies to do so. I am the only one with aggro, and have some nice AE stuns, and i can hit a large amout of mobs with them.

At this point I am safe, my team is safe, all the aggro is on me, i can do maximum ae damage, as can all my team mates, all thier aes hit the maximum amout of mobs. Times are good.

Them BAM someone hits them all with an ae Knockback, there are mobs everywhere, each hurt a little bit by the attack but far from dead. I can't even see them all now, there all over, my aes and all other members on the team are hitting a whopping 2-3 mobs at a time now instead of the 15 they were hitting before. And I am no longer able to attack anything because I am in chain taunt mode trying to attract all the mobs again. Not to mention they are often out of range and no longer slowed, which means Quantams and machine gunners and all range specialists, can now attack me at thier full attack rate, beating me as hard as they can.

Knockback do have thier place, like when your soloing, or your being charged by mobs that are going to kill you and have no place to run, but definatly have no place with my ice tank, or any tank that has tried so hard to herd them all together. Is your 1 knockback better than all my continuous ae damages -- no --- is it better than all the ae controllers or blasters or scrappers on the team, all of thier aes they could land continuously until the mobs are all dead. Definatly not.