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For an entry level small energy efficient focused PC the 7770 is fine. However, stuffing a 7770 into a system with an ivy bridge i7 3770 is like sticking Kirkland tires from Costco on a Ferrari.
Don't laugh, one of my friends bought an HP Core i7 PC and it came with that 6450.
Anyways, I'll wait til I see more tangable info.
Rodney: Father Xmas also has an excellent guide for computer parts. -
Quote:Ugh! /headdeskOriginally Posted by Rodney_
Would this computer work well with CoH?
Intel® Core i5-2320
Microsoft Windows 7 Home Premium (64-bit)
8GB DDR3-1333 RAM
(2) 750GB 7,200RPM Hard Drive (RAID 0)
16x DVD±RW Drive
19-in-1 Memory Card Reader
AMD Radeon HD 6450
10/100/1000 Network
Or this one
Intel® Core i7-3770
Microsoft Windows 7 Home Premium (64-bit)
12GB DDR3-1333 SDRAM
2TB 7,200RPM Hard Drive
DVD±RW Drive
Memory Card Reader
AMD Radeon HD 7770
10/100/1000 Network
802.11b/g/n Wireless
Sorry, can I vote for neither? Both have weak graphics cards and without knowing more about specific hardware and for how much money, I can't give an accurate answer.
see hyperstrike's guide
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Quote:Nah, they making changes in how rewards are going to be handed out in DA. That's where the farm is.Originally Posted by Nethergoat
the cool kids have apparently moved on to something called "cave farms", if /broadcast is to be believed.
If MMs were better farmers than /fire brutes, AE in AP on Freedom server would be full of them. The only time MMs were the best AE farmers was when the level 1 MM bug existed where you could be a level 1 MM but your pets were level 48. The mission was full of level 5 GMs and people were going from level 1 to 50 in an hour or two. I think the day before the patch to fix this I saw 6 RWZ. Yes, there were that many players trying use the exploit. -
I'd rather they just phase out Shards. Which is too bad because I liked the way the Alpha slot worked.
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Quote:Oh yeah, its a total gamechanger* for many powers. IMHOOriginally Posted by Tater Todd
There also needs to be a way to have this Global ins all powers Damage or not...If so there's going to be a lot of new toons cooking in my mids cauldron.
Claws
Kinetic Melee
Peacebringer
Storm Defender/Corr
Bonfire
Repel from Kinetics would be worth taking
ect!
*That is if you prefer KD to KB.
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Quote:I agree, finally I can turn some awful powers into pure gems by simply changing KB to KD.Originally Posted by Ice_Ember
I just cried... with happiness.
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Quote:I know the feeling TJ, I hated the Kane Halloween event with the "forced" 4 player teams. I can't count how many times I would get a "player" who would just doorsit on that event.Originally Posted by Texas Justice
Yes, and as usual you completely ignore the fact that there are people in this game that DO NOT TEAM. Not just exceptions for small teams, not just exceptions for large teams, not just exceptions for leagues but NO TEAMING AT ALL.
And as usual, you chose to respond to someone you KNOW does not team with an insipid comment that "it's a small team event".
For anyone wondering, this post has been heavily edited multiple times before hitting Submit Reply. The first 4 versions were much harsher.
Those versions also would have required moderator action.
When people purposely make responses like that because they know it will bait me into responding, they get what they get.
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Quote:Originally Posted by Hyperstrike
Amazon is NOT a haven for the technically literate. If your hard drive dies, you plonk a new one in.
If worse comes to worst, you simply call Microsoft's Activation line, explain that the old drive died and the new drive is replacing it.
The hardware activation isn't THAT sensitive. You basically have to swap 3/4ths of the system components to trip it, and if you do, you simply call the activation line and tell them your CPU and motherboard died in a freak lightning storm and you've replaced them. It's STILL the same machine.
As long as you're not going:
Install: Activate
6 weeks later: New system, install, reactivate
6 weeks later: New system, install, reactivate
6 weeks later: New system, install, reactivate
THOSE kinds of things they track.
Also, one thing you can spend money on, OTHER than a craptastic old copy of XP, or the full retail Win7? A copy of Acronis True Image.
Once you have your system installed, patched, and just the way you like it, THEN register it. THEN IMAGE IT.
Instead of needing to take 4-8-hours to reinstall everything AGAIN if you blow a drive, you simply mount the new drive, fire up Acronis and drop the original image back onto the system in an hour or two. Then just patch it to current, reimage it, and keep truckin'.
And no pesky reactivation to worry about.
Sorry if you find what I'm about to say offensive. But the way you're looking to go about this is the most painful, expensive and bass-ackwards method available to you.
/em golf clap
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Quote:ZOMG!Originally Posted by Positron
The conversion (Knockback to Knockdown) happens 100% of the time; if the power you slot this in does not have Knockback in it then it adds a proc to do Knockdown.
A Gamechanger! I can finally take my PB out of retirement!
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Add me to the hate zone events side.
I'd rather the devs use dev time to fix bugs and create new shiny powersets than ugh, another zone event. -
1. Pets move too slow
2. Pets make too many annoying noises
3. Pet "AI" is a joke
4. Too much recent content where the correct move is to just speed through mobs and ignore stuff.
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Quote:RI also has a long animation time and can be prone to being nixed by silly team members who kill the RI target ASAP, KB with Force Bolt, Radial KB the mobs nearby, AS the target etc. Also, on a good team, by the time RI finishes animating, the team is already moving to the next spawn since they already wiped out the current one. All you have to do for Evade is be within 80ft for as you say 28% defense up 100% of the time.Originally Posted by StratoNexus
Apparently is does take some number crunching to look at it and understand. My first reaction to Evade was the same as yours, but then I kept reading.
You have to look at the set as a whole. 15*1.56 + 5 = ~28%. That is not insignificant. But what else does the set provide for mitigation?
It has strong -Damage, a modest slow, and a weak AoE Fear effect to apply to enemies. Mez protection, weak Psi resists, as well as resistance to slows, to-hit debuffs, and perception debuffs. 2 allies can get a level shift. That's it. The rest is modest offense.
Compare to Rad. Radiation Infection can easily be applying -48% to hit, which is more effective mitigation than Evade even against +3s. That one power also makes it so your team only misses 5% of the time. Other mitigation in Rad includes a modest heal, end drain resistance, mez resistance, modest -damage, a massive AoE slow, a modest AoE Hold effect, and the best AoE hold in the game. If someone dies it can add more to hit and damage debuffs, as well as return the fallen ally to the fight.
Trickshooter: I did look at the whole set. However, Evade set the early tone that says "This set if OP! Don't mess with me"
Mag 4 mez protect that works on the caster? Buzz.
You lowered the numbers, they are getting closer but still out of line. Defender "bonus" is too high. -
It doesn't take a number cruncher to look at the first power Evade and go
So, 15 + 20 stacks of .25 for a grand total of 20% before slotting?
No way in heck is that going to happen when the much loled Force Field is 10% with a much smaller radius and it comes at level 12. I'll point out that this is the level 1 power with an 80ft radius!
It would probably require that the Hyper-Intellect's powers not effect the caster. It probably means losing the caster inclusion with Commanding Shout and Advantage. 40 ft radius is going to be the max.
You should look over the values at City of Data. http://tomax.cohtitan.com/data/power...etype.php?at=3
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We'll see more "Hybrid" drives first.
Certainly server side the mechanical HDs won't go away anytime soon. The consumer market will probably move to SSDs only for lappys and Hybrid drives for Desktops.
Offsite storage for bulk data will eventually be more accepted. -
I see my fair share of bad motherboards, it happens.
You did the 3rd "R" and its still flaky. I think you answered your own question.
Start with houtex's suggestion about using a different network card. Sometimes having spare stuff is handy.
The game is quite stable, if there was a serious issue, this part of the forums would be going bonkers. -
lolpvp
Yep. Welcome to pvp! -
Go Western Digital.
Of course, we will all be moving to SSDs soon anyways. -
I had another idea
Summon trainer: Summon up a trainer for leveling up! There are zones where trainers are just too far away. Sometimes people would like to train during a mission. -
Just curious where fellow dominators have been sticking Ascendency of the Dominator ATOs.
It has no damage in it
To me, it looks like something that goes into fast single target attacks.
Of course, with i24 changes, I might just hold off on any slotting of ATOs. -
Quote:No. Its so bad even Vlad Guerrero won't swing at it.Originally Posted by Lock0n
Do you use it? Regularly? And if so, how? First strike? Closer? In teams?
I'm using it currently on my fire/dev blaster as a stealthy first strike attack against spawns. Zoom in stealthed, drop it down and follow up with a fireball, most things are no longer standing when done.
Anybody else?
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Then I have no problem with it being 10 as long as there isn't some way for numerous GMs being created. Adamastor ritual? Maybe enough to get Lusca killed for food. Each Tentacle was a GM right?
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Have you contacted support?
Well, there is the 3rd R to try. Re-image. Still didn't answer temps or cleaning out laptop. Those are much less drastic than doing a re-image. -
Pentium D is a pretty old CPU. 7 years is a long time in the computer world. The Core 2 Duo was a huge leap in performance over the P4 and D CPUs.
That said, you probably need to give us and people trying to help you more info about your connection speeds etc.
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Quote:Originally Posted by ShadowMoka
Doms looking pretty nice. Perhaps Fire/Earth. I have definitely wanted to try Plant/Psi Dom for awhile, though. The toon I have in mind is a villain whos being put on parole and forced to do hero stuff : P.
Fire/earth dom is at least amusing, if you don't mind insane end usage, you can have hot feet and mud pots. -
Quote:So the monster island and hive/abyss don't count?Originally Posted by Agent White
It's not a matter of how fast they can kill them. Even if you don't assume that they put rewards on a cooldown like Adamastor (his 10 merits and 5 threads is only once per day) there's no way to guarantee almost any of them spawning. Most of them are on 3-4 hour spawn timers, if they're even up at the time you've got the team together. They -do- despawn if left alone long enough, otherwise they'd all be up together given how infrequently they're killed.
You'd be lucky to pull 90 (Every blueside that spawns in a zone + Seed of Hami) to 130 (Everything, assuming you've got a team of vigilantes/rogues) in a -day- if everything was up the time you've got the team together. You might wait an hour or so and probably get the Seed and Scrapyard up again, maybe hunting the 100 gremlins and Nerva demons for Caleb and Deathsurge. But that's a lot of tedium and a lot of travel time.
I'm just saying, 600/hour is kind of a huge overestimate. Even if they institute a change to make everyone summonable like Adamastor, they'd be put on a 24 hour cooldown for top rewards.
Yes, there is some happy safe number and 2 is too low and 10 is too high.