Dark Ether

Not really a good one to try and solo - his pets alone will eat you alive.

Try broadcasting in the Hollows - you'll usually find several there who may join you. If not, try the badges or chat channels and see if you can get some help via those routes. With the SSKing it seems more likely now, since those EXed down will get XP.

First off, you win because of the Queen link.

Secondly, now I wonder how far you'll shoot in a geyser with the Ninja Run?!

Can we somehow blame the walk animation for this? lol

I think much of our steel production has been headed overseas, so they're having to cut back, as well.

FYI to all UI'ers, and potential recruits , we decided tonight to try Monday evenings, 8 pm ET/7 pm CT. Hopefully that will be better for more people - we had another fail tonight.

Pool travel powers (like CJ, SJ, SS) will detoggle NR. Passive powers, like hurdle and swift will work with it, as does Sprint.

It seems it won't be as quick running as SS, nor able to jump as high or far as SJ, nor should it. But it's a nice combination of toned-down versions of those that should make "natural travel" folks really a fan of this power.

On Pinnacle it seems the zombie invasion has merely been replaced by herds of roaming, prancing ninjas.

Moo, you incredible genius!! Great analysis.

Actually, I concur. Too many, too long. Got aggravated when I had street sweep missions, which happened quite a bit.

I think one zone at a time is the way to go, and make it so that everyone gets credit, no matter what percentage of damage they do. When playing my debuffer, I felt as if I were not really contributing to the team getting the badge.

Also, if killing the foes "in the ring" was the only way they would count, then they need to stay in there more often, and not move out and range attack.

Here's a kitted-out Walther:

Some more Steampunk-ish looking pistols:





The Mal Reynolds look:




And some Han Solo flavor:

Never! Never, ever, I say!! It will haunt our waking lives for ever!!!

(actually, today is it, I think)

I checked a few other systems they had, and it looks like they got a deal on that vid card - it's what they had for the XPS's. You'd have to step into an Alineware laptop to get an NVidia GTX 260M, and then ther other upgrades would be slightly more costly.

I've had good luck with Dells in the past, too - I'm no basher of theirs - but in this case, if you want a laptop, you might also give this site a look:

http://www.xoticpc.com/

I've not ordered from them, although I think I got the site link from someone here who has done so. The have quite a few Sagers and Asus laptops in the Gaming category on their site.

Also, Newegg has laptops listed here:

http://www.newegg.com/Store/SubCateg...ebooks-Laptops


You might find what you want there, as well.

I was pondering how far the geyser would send your character if they were walking. I'm guess a nice, short arcing plummet.

Very nice! Congrats!!

Mystic's.

Dip in a little melted butter....yep!

Of those three, Fire's probably your best bet. But allow me to toss out Broad Sword for your consideration. Nice single targets and a couple area attacks, plus the combination of sword and shield is a classic one. I am enjoying mine.

For around that same money, you can go this way:

• *BASE_PRICE: [+985]
• BUNDLE: None
• BLUETOOTH: None
• CD: LG 22X DVD±R/±RW + CD-R/RW Dual Layer Drive (BLACK COLOR)
• CD2: NONE
• CAS: NZXT M59 Gaming Mid-Tower Case with See-Thru Window [-4]
• CASUPGRADE: NONE
• CS_FAN: Default case fans
• CPU: Intel® Core™ i7-920 2.66 GHz 8M L3 Cache LGA1366
• FAN: Intel LGA1366 Certified CPU Fan & Heatsink
• FREEBIE_RM: None
• FA_HDD: None
• FLASHMEDIA: None [-3]
• FLOPPY: NONE
• FREEBIE_OS: FREE! (Halo 2) Game
• HDD: Single Hard Drive (500GB SATA-II 3.0Gb/s 16MB Cache 7200RPM HDD)
• HDD2: NONE
• IEEE_CARD: NONE
• KEYBOARD: Xtreme Gear (Black Color) Multimedia/Internet USB Keyboard
• MOUSE: XtremeGear Optical USB 3 Buttons Gaming Mouse
• MODEM: NONE
• MULTIVIEW: Non-SLI/Non-CrossFireX Mode Supports Multiple Monitors
• MONITOR: NONE
• MONITOR2: NONE
• MOTHERBOARD: Asus P6T SE Intel X58 Chipset CrossFireX Mainboard Triple-Channel DDR3/1600 SATA RAID w/ eSATA
• MEMORY: 6GB (2GBx3) PC1333 DDR3 PC3 10666 Triple Channel Memory (Corsair or Major Brand)
• NETWORK: Onboard Gigabit LAN Network
• OVERCLOCK: No Overclocking
• OS: Microsoft® Windows® 7 Professional [+135] (64-bit Edition)
• OS_UPGRADE: None
• POWERSUPPLY: 900 Watts Power Supplies [+60] (Apevia Warlock Series)
• PRINTER: None
• PRINTER_CABLE: None
• RUSH: NO; READY TO SHIP IN 5~10 BUSINESS DAYS
• SERVICE: STANDARD WARRANTY: 3-YEAR LIMITED WARRANTY PLUS LIFE-TIME TECHNICAL SUPPORT
• SOUND: HIGH DEFINITION ON-BOARD 7.1 AUDIO
• SPEAKERS: None
• TEMP: NONE
• TVRC: None
• USB: Built-in USB 2.0 Ports
• USBHD: NONE
• VIDEOCAMERA: NONE
• VIDEO: NVIDIA GeForce GTX285 1GB 16X PCIe Video Card [+220] (Major Brand Powered by NVIDIA)
• VIDEO2: None
• VIDEO3: None
• VC_PHYSX: NONE
• VC_GAMES: None
• WNC: NONE
• _PRICE: (+1393)

This is sans monitor, but the vid card is a good bit better. This is a tweaked version of one of their specials. You might start there and find that you can work more into a system since you start out saving a bit on those. I think they have weekly specials.