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I was wondering who cut the line I had installed...

Correct.

Yep.

I wouldn't exactly call 5 of any 1 IO buff arcane or baffling, especially given that there is pretty much only one exception to the rule.

Remember, you can only save 10 enhancements from any one respec.

Fun time.

Okay, before you do anything else, make sure you have the NFORCE drivers for your motherboard.

If you aren't sure what Nforce platform you have, tools like CPUZ will tell you: http://www.cpuid.com/softwares/cpu-z.html

I would through the steps from before. Check to make sure the Nvidia software is uninstalled. Run Driver Sweeper.

Then reboot and install the updated driver.

probably not.

The reason why you want to run driver sweeper before restarting is because Microsoft Windows does not automatically delete all stored dll files. So if you have a corrupted file or an older file still in use, Microsoft Windows can, and normally will, automatically reinstall from the existing driver files.

Which basically means you uninstall the drivers for nothing.

IO buffs only work in sets of 5.

Posi, Decimentation, and Expedient all offer recharges of 6.25%, so only the first 5 enhancement sets provide a buff.

The only exception to the no more than 5 is the 7.5% recharge. The 7.5% recharge from the Luck of the Gambler proc and the 7.5% IO set buffs are not the same buffs.

So you can have 5 LoTG procs and 5 Kinectic Crashes and receive full recharge benefits from both.

yes / no / not really

This thread was about an Intel graphics problems. Solutions for Intel graphics probably are not going to work for solutions on Nvidia graphics.

... okay. When you say separate, do you mean as
on a completely different physical hard-drive?
on the same physical hard-drive and different Windows System folders?
on the same physical hard-drive but different partitions?

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*checks the luggage*

Did you remember to pack the Ice Cweam?

Actually, my comment on that system wasn't Win7 certified or Aero certified was driven by the usage of the GF 6150, not by the AII.

short version, I'd wait for RadeonHD 6900 series.

What I've been hearing is that investors are continuing to panic over Nvidia's corporate actions. None of Nvidia's high-end cards are profitable, and Nvidia still hasn't issued an answer to the now low end market RadeonHD 5770... the segment of the market that moves the most amount of cards, and thus drives the largest profits.

The only reason to buy a GTX 580, and I mean the ONLY reason to buy it, is that you want the Nvidia badge. That's it. There's no other reason to get one.

Thing is, buying one of the GTX 580's on the street will set you back around $500: http://www.pricewatch.com/search?q=GTX+580

AMD's upcoming 6970 will reportedly be launching at a $400 price-point. The big worry for fans of green is that AMD's much cheaper card, on paper, outruns the GTX 580. Now, on-paper and in theory doesn't always translate to real world performance. Case in point, GTS 250. On paper it drastically outpowers RadeonHD 4850. In real games... it doesn't.

Now, given that Nvidia's set the GTX 580 pricing pretty much in Ludicrous-ville, AMD might launch their next highest end card with a higher price and sustain their own inflated pricing like they did with the HD 5000 series cards. It's also expected that AMD won't rush the 6900 series to market. Right now there's no need to kick a product out the door just to get a product out the door. So you'll actually probably have a shot at laying hands on one.

Now, is the GTX 580 as much of a rip-off as the GTX 480 and 470?

Well, in the absence of a direct competitor card from AMD, determining whether or not it's a complete rip-off would be unfair. If you want the absolute amount of maximum rendering power right now, today, then sure, the GTX 580 is your card of choice.

I just have to ask two questions: If you have $500 to begin with to spend on just a graphics card alone...

is your business hiring?
do they need another technician?

you should restart the computer after any driver update.

Question: what makes you so sure that NCSoft Marketing didn't provide the Post with questions that NCSoft / Paragon Studios wanted to answer or wanted to address?

Not really when you consider something that the Post didn't address, AMD is using CoH to show off their Fusion products.

Something that a lot of players simply gloss over, either deliberately out of willful ignorance, or just out of not having realized it, is that CoH is one of the few MMO's that will still scale back to hardware users could have had at it's launch. CoH remains one of the few updated MMO's that will run relatively well on Intel Integrated Graphics Accelerators. Competitors, such as those cited by the Post, don't scale.

So no, learning that the developers will continue to develop and revamp the existing engine is not a disappointment by any measure or standard.

Okay, first thing, this topic has been done to death. Quit spreading the F.U.D. I'm going to go over this just one more time.

• A: Most of the employees dismissed were temps brought into complete Going Rogue.
• B: C.Bruce leaving Paragon Studios was pretty much known way earlier in the year when C.Bruce retired from the forums and pulled his twitter account.

Okay. Fine. There is a fair point to be made that NCSoft's corporate policies made a complete hash out of the event of C.Bruce leaving. Yes, there is a fair point to be made that NCSoft's corporate policies forced a complete and total bungling of how community relations were handled. Yes, there is a fair point to be made that sometimes set in stone regulations and policies need to be uprooted from the stone and set aside to foster community goodwill.

Using C.Bruce as evidence for Doom is pretty much like using a Weed Whacker to cut down an Oak tree. Everybody who walks by is going to stop and stare in awe at the event, and you won't actually accomplish anything.

Two words for you: Shadow Shard

Just because you don't like the existing end-game content is no reason for you to say that there isn't any.

Yeah, doesn't jibe with what I've heard either. Now if Mr. Miller and Mr. Fish were suddenly stuffed into a back-room, then I might be thinking something is going on. As far as I know, neither has gone complete black-ops.

I think many of the Doom-sayers don't really understand just how committed NCSoft is to the CoH franchise.

Okay. Big problem here. The buff archtypes have deliberate minimal resistances and protections against mez effects in the game. Outside of the anti-mez fields in the Sonic Resonance and Force Field power sets, only Controllers get any mez-protection with Indomitable Will. Even then, IW is a level 41 Epic Power, and you'd need to be pretty much at hard recharge cap for it to be perma.

So, your basic request here, isn't one you are ever going to fill.

Requisite link to damage caps: http://paragonwiki.com/wiki/Damage_Cap#Damage

While Corruptors do get 100% more damage boost than controllers or defenders, raw damage is only one factor. The majority of a corruptors damage comes late in the HP bar of an opponent when scourge kicks in and they start doing double damage.

Controllers, by comparison, get double damage as long as any mez effect is applied to an opponent.

Defenders get a Damage buff when they are solo or with up to two team-mates, and have stronger buff / debuffs.

Then there's the matter of the power sets themselves.

Case in point, Archery. Archery is largely made up of a large number of single strike shots, and only has two powers that benefit from scourges double damage on damage over time: blazing arrow and rain of arrows. While all attacks have a chance for double damages, that overall damage becomes limited.

So, does the higher potential damage cap on a corrupter off-set the stronger buffs / debuffs of a Defender? Does it offset the control offered by a controller?

That is up to any particular player to decide for themselves. There is no hard only one way to go answer. Each archtype has it's own strengths and weaknesses.


Okay. First lesson in Kinetics 101: Your buffs are not for you.

Fulcrum Shift, as a power, is designed for your team-mates to take advantage of. If you are getting into Melee range on a regular basis, you need to back up.

Control Sets with good alpha mitigation capabilities are often used as platforms to drive players buffing themselves with FS. One of the reasons the Fire / Kinectics Controller rose in popularity as a farming solution is that fire control offers both a perception debuff in smoke, and a stun debuff in Flashfire. Those particular debuffs can give Fire / Kins time to get into melee range and leverage fulcrum shift for themselves.


Okay. Defense is meaningless.

No really. There are a couple basic problems with obsessing after defense. Your archtype, the corruptor archtype, has no defense debuff resistance. This means that it's only going to take one single attack landing with a defense debuff, and you no longer have any defense.

The larger the mob that you enounter, the more chances the enemy has to penetrate your defenses, and the more likely you will be going splat.


Yeah, here's the thing. Many mez attacks, such as sleep or hold, are not delivered through smashing / lethal damage attacks. The mez attack most often coupled with smashing / lethal / energy attacks is stun. You are getting hit by enemies with attacks you have no protection against.

Short version. No.

To put it bluntly, what you are trying to do, the developers don't want you to do. It's known as blapping, named after players who played blasters like scrappers trying to take advantage of the old blaster defiance.

In order for what you want to work as you want it to work, you pretty much have to cherry pick which enemies you fight, making sure to only take on opponents with smashing or lethal damages and no mez effects.

Now, if you are dead set on using a ranged archtype in a non-ranged combat situation, your best bet is going to be controllers, and from what it sounds like you want, you might as well go ahead and make the flavor of the it's going to get nerfed again and ruin it for everybody else Fire / Kin.

Okay. Two things you have to consider here.

• The developers do not balance encounters against Invention Origin Buffs.
• The developers balance encounters against Single Origin Enhancements and ED caps.

All of the examples you've listed here are from players who are using extensive amounts of IO's in what were probably very expensive builds. From the developers points of view these players are acceptable anomalies within the design of the game itself. We don't have hard-numbers on just how many players leverage the IO system to that length, but the indication is that only a percentage of the game's player base is in the position to pull off these types of events.

Now, if any one of these archtypes were able to perform these actions on a build using Single Origin enhancements, then the developers would take notice and you'd see some changes on the way for any particular avatar.

The Alpha Slot system turns the concept of empowering your character on it's head. Unlike IO buffs, Alpha Slot buffs work on a per-power basis, rather than a base-stats basis. This in turn means that powers that players who have already have capped any specific effect into ED limits will see greater returns through the Incarnate system on those powers.

On paper, yes, the developers are already creating situations where only tanks and maybe brutes have a chance at surviving. Case in point would be the Tin Mage TF where Bobcat Vengeanced and promptly sliced up a Stone Tank as if it were a Fire Aura. In some of the potential combat situations, only tanks or brutes at attribute caps can survive any particular enemies onslaught. Given the performance of Bobcat is is not unreasonable to assume that the developers could, and would, create a situation where only a Tanker at attribute caps could survive an assault.

The general player-held theory is that by the time the incarnate system is finished, what are the obsessions of today, might not be as important. Soft-capping defense might not be particularly important to a defensive melee avatar if an incarnate effect allows them to add a to-hit debuff to all melee attacks.

Since we don't know the full scope of what the incarnate system will ultimately offer as a playable experience, making claims about the death of any one particular archtype is um... well... short cited.

Something else to consider is that the developers have shown flexibility in rethinking old designs, such as the Defender's Negligence and the Tanker's Gauntlet. If a substantial amount of the player base gets to a point where their avatar can do something that is not within the design scope of that avatar, we'll likely see more changes from Castle and Synapse.

Okay. Here's the basic problem Blueruckus.

Many of us responding have been through several beta tests in the past. We've also learned to identify patterns in posts that appear on the forums by basic wording, timing, or tone of the post itself.

This is basically a red-light sentence. Forum discussions over content may or may not be useful or accurate since many players, exampling myself, tend to use feedback posts to talk about changes we would implement, why we would implement those changes, and perhaps how we would go about implementing those changes.

This can create confusing threads where players run with ideas or statements by other players that were ideas or conjecture, then treating those ideas or conjectures as lore-fact. A good case in point, the popular belief that incarnates were supposed to be a part of the retail Going Rogue release, a belief that is not supported by the time-line of Going Rogue's public notices of development, nor by developer statements.

It is my opinion that the only way Feedback or discussion threads can be productive is if everybody involved is on a level playing field. In the case of new content like the Incarnate Content, that means having at least made attempts at the Task Forces.

I'm quoting this to help make the point that a useful discussion is only really possible if the content has been experienced.

As a spoiler note here: If you are waiting for the release, don't read the following

The default setting for the two Incarnate Taskforces is Plus 4 Levels.

This means that players without the incarnate slot will be fighting at minus 8 levels to the enemy targets.