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... I hope not. All of those links should go the Newegg US site.

*shields kittyself with a Fedor!*

I don't think Jay "hates" the Furry crowd... but I still love the mental image of him being taken to AnthroCon and running out of the Westin, eyes on fire, screaming, and plunging into what-ever river runs through Pittsburgh, surfacing on the other side of the river, still screaming.

well, off the top of my head, there's some exotic coding in place to tie the pre-purchase of Going Rogue into the unlocking of just two GR components. That's probably the reason.

*wanders up behind Cien at the fisher price firetrunk*

Hmm. I've never seen a trunk in red with ladders on the side before. Where'd you get it?

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If you are serious about this, or if any other new poster comes along and THINKS you are serious, there's a big difference between buffs / debuffs and attacks.

In the case of Fulcrum Shift, it's one of the few powers in the game that can damage cap a player. It's the only player in the game that I'm aware of that can damage cap a team. Basically, it's designed to be the ultimate in damage boosts.

In the case of Phantom Army, again, it's designed to be a "semi" tank. Remember, the entire game is balanced largely against SO's, something I believe Positron has commented on with his own blog. It's only with extensive IO work that an Illusion controller can perma Phantom Army. Against an SO build, Phantom Army has an extensive down-time. Phantom Army also lacks direct damage, as enemies will eventually heal away a large percentage of the damage Phantom Army can inflict.

There's a big difference between designed imbalance, and incidental imbalance. Now, I don't think you are serious. I think you are trying to make a joke, and honestly, it's a bad one. So, I probably shouldn't be taking the time to spell this out. However, since I can't risk a new player coming along and thinking that you are serious because they just don't know any better, I am going to have to spell it out.

Designed Imbalance is when a power, or combination of powers, deliberately causes a breakage of "normalized 1 to 1 power balance"

Giant Monsters, Rikti MotherShip raids, Hamidon, and even high level Task Forces are all based on the concept of Designed Imbalance. Mob powers, archvillians, Giant monster's, elite bosses, and so on are all designed to tax the limits of a team's mix. Rikti Mothership raids are best accomplished when everybody is at Soft-cap defense, and everybody is at max damage. Lady Grey Task Force pits players against the high-level rikti, that could shred a single player on their own. I could detail each situational event where the game is balanced against the idea that a player is "super-buffed" but I shouldn't have to.


Incidental Imbalance is when a power, or combination of powers, unintentionally causes a breakage of "normalized 1 to 1 power balance"

This is where things like Shield Charge fall. Shield Charge was never meant to be as powerful as it was once the AT modifiers were added. So, Shield Charge breaks the balancing in regards to other powers.

Many of the minor power changes made to the game are based on fixing incidental imbalances. From a long term point of view, the last time Deliberate Imbalance was modified involved the across the board buff on Dominator's damage and the modification of Domination to affect mez's only (both those cast on the player and those cast by the player).

Hopefully this will explain to future readers of this thread some of the background behind various powers and their affects across various archtypes.

What he means is that replacing the Hard-Drive can be a bit of a pain on the newer Apple units.

Replacing or adding system memory is easy.

this sounds about right...

She licenses the picture rights from Chew-Toys international.

it debuffs enemy critter range, forceing them to close up.

Basically, it means that you taunt something far away, it runs to you.

BaB's has threatened to animate bugs away before.

Pohsyb threatened to give Golden Girl his home address if he tried.

Anyways, Wiggz, I'm just going to say this in response to your posts in this thread:

The advantage to Ice is that at high levels it can soft cap to smash / lethal defense only on SO's. It is NOT a tanking set for low levels.

Base Defense:



EA First Swipe:



EA Second Swipe:




The set can also cap on HP, again, basically on just SO's and Accolades:



It is only at the High Levels where Ice really shines as a set. It is one of the most powerful aggro magnets in the game, and carries one of the strongest mitigation powers, energy absorption. Slot it for endurance modification and you'll sap most mobs dry of their endurance with just two swipes.

However, EA is also the set's downfall. Ice is great for mob combat, as EA drives the high endurance consumption the armor sets need. However, without mobs to fuel EA, an Ice will run out of endurance in short order. So the set isn't such a good armor if you are looking to take on solo targets with a budget comprised of SO's.

Even if you did softcap using IO's, you'll still have "issues" with endurance management. The only sets that uses more endurance on native values are Stone Armor with all of it's stackable armors turned on, or Dark Armor with all of it's aura's turned on.

This is where Hibernate comes in. At full tilt, Hibernate can put you back in the fight quickly, recovering Endurance and health at incredible rates. It is far from just being a phase power.

There are certain players who refer to Ice tanks that activate Hibernate as "Hibernoobs"

Best thing to do when you meet this players is throw them on ignore and find a different team.

the exploit was for a player to die outside of the Vengeance power's activation range; then the guys with Vengeance prepare their Vengeance power by targeting the dead player and clicking on Vengeance; somebody else teleports the dead player into range, Vengeance goes off in an auto-stack.

I suspect the "Fix" required code on the back end, which is why it only got addressed now.

So I got over to my 5770's on Live. yeah. Still horribly and utterly shattered there.

I forced* the issue somewhat on my RadeonHD 2600 Mobile (Catalyst Mobile 2600), and cranked the settings on the 4850 from the original shot.

* The 2600 was actually incredibly unstable when running both AO and AA, although this is more because these features are really outside of the 2600's performance envelope.

AA+AO 5770:






AA+AO 2600*:






AA|AO 4850:






As can be seen from the screenshots, the error seems to be fixed on ATi's OpenGL 3.x class cards. If I remember correctly, 10.6 is the first driver to default to using the OpenGL 3.3 driver. This falls in line with the Preview Driver that I've been talking about where AA+AO was fixed. At that time I only had the 4850's and 3870's.

However, it still seems to be broken in the OpenGl 4.0 driver, which the 5000 series will be using as of 10.6. Theoretically then, since the fix for OpenGL 3.x has filtered down, a fix for OpenGl 4.x shouldn't be too long in the making.

Just don't get one with Intel Integrated graphics.

Actually, off the top of my head, since Apple just updated the Mini, I don't think any currently shipping Apple's are using Intel Integrated graphics.

On the flip side of the coin, the fastest graphics cards the Mac's come with is the RadeonHD 4870... and you kinda get reamed on the price.

However, Manga says that standard add-in PCIE 16x cards "should" be able to run in the PowerMacs... I personally have not tried this though.