Hyperstrike

That'd be the "Alas Poor Yorick" pose from Taunt right?

Just for gits and shiggles, I decided to hit CyberPowerPC for a look at their configurator.

3.2Ghz i7 960, 6GB RAM, 120GB SSD, 2TB HD, default board, Radeon 6950, Blu-Ray optical and liquid cooling came out to about $1700 with OS. Such a system would tear CoH a new one.

That still leaves about $300 buffer space.

$88 more would get him a Radeon 6970
$144 more would take him to 12GB of RAM

Still, as you said, it's probably best to wait for the reworked Sandy Bridge chipsets to hit the market in a month or so.

Heck, if you aren't looking for rush shipping you can shave another 5% (about $86) off.

1. What do you plan to use the computer for?
2. Any hardware preferences (or hardware vendors you want to stay the hell way from)?
3. What's your ideal budget (real dollar amount not "as little as possible")?
4. What's your maximum budget? Asking so that if a small bump in price can yield a huge increase in performance, we know the limits of what you're able to spend.
5. Will you need anything besides the computer itself (new monitor, keyboard, mouse, additional software besides the OS, etc).
6. Are you comfortable with building your own computer or would you prefer pre-bought?
7. Any "MUST HAVE!" features?

Basically a nasty combination of this:



and this:

Heh! In Magicj's universe? Yeah.

No, it's called "Villain Volleyball"

Why is all the blood gone?

Another run (hopefully without bumping into furniture) at the good old Dark Shadows franchise.

Hope this one fares better than the Ben Cross version from way the hell back. At least the Cross version showed that when you're not doing "one and done" the property works quite well.

There's also the fact that debuffs are resisted to greater or lesser degrees.

Buffs aren't. Let's see a villain try to resist me putting a bubble around my tanker.

Wow "teams full of *Insert Primary/Secondary* steamroll stuff"!

You ever see what a team of 8 forcefielders does? In complete safety no less?

This actually implies he's learned something at some point. Mostly he's just parroting assorted lunacies that were probably jammed into his noggin by someone at least as uninformed.

Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity.
-- Hanlon's Razor

According to magicj, everyone should just use a bunch of non-disposable, time/use-limited temps. to get through everything every time.

He hasn't mentioned what you do when they run out mid-TF though...

Because he's a troll. We've been trying to use torches to push him back under his bridge but he moves with the speed of a granite tank in a caltrop field.

Really? My all-tank ITF team didn't have a healer.

Sorry child. I'm not the one living in the dream world.

Again, do the math.

They don't NEED a healer either fool.

Just like you don't need a tank on the MSTF (I've "tanked" tower-buffed LR on a blaster, others have done it with Warshades, etc).

Unfortunately the math doesn't support your opinion. But why let being wrong stop you?

No. Buffers and debuffers do much more than heal.

Anyone referring to the various support classes as "healers" quite simply does NOT have a grasp on the realities of this game.

Sound like anyone we know?


Again, it's not about "need" son. It's about the difference between "okay" and "great".

How many teams need heals if they're immune to damage from everything in the mission/TF/etc?

NONE.

Actually they DO. The players with their defenses capped out can afford to concentrate on simply outputting maximum damage instead of managing their green bar.

Hmm. Going to need a bigger clue-bat.

Still pulling numbers from your donkey eh?

We've already told you. Save for corner cases (like entire groups with extreme levels of defense), more than heals. Enough defense makes healing more or less superfluous.

POOR teams are going to look for healers, not bubblers. POOR teams are going to look for healers instead of buffers and debuffsrs.

And yeah, they may slog through the content at a snail's pace, screaming about "hax" and all since their healer can't keep them alive.

Incorrect. They bring heals in addition to their buffs, debuffs and shields.

Try actually LOOKING at the power sets you're talking about.

Again, this is what POOR teams do.

That's nice. Too bad it isn't true.

You've already been talked to by people who DO. My bubbler is sitting on a Master of the Statesman's Task Force. How many AVs is that again?

Yeah, while we were beating down Lord Recluse with triple-digit defense and ZERO damage taken, someone was screaming OMFG WE NEED AN EMP!

Or not.

Uh huh. PREVENTING more damage than any TWO healers could heal is irrelevant. Please learn about the game before blathering on son.

Oh, and you might want to talk to whoever sold you his account.

Wow a zerg rush on a portal.

Woo. So tough.

Dude, please. You're on the verge of imploding into a singularity of dumb here.

Requiring others to heal your pets is a bad thing.
Getting healed at random isn't a bad thing.
Not needing to be healed in the first place is several orders of magnitude better.

But please, keep ladling the BS on. Don't let facts, math or reality stop you.

A quite...*AHEM!* blunt review!

Yeah. I beat my main up to 50 in about 2-1/2 months. Back in i12. But I was playing every night for hours and hours at a time. I had friends and SG-mates laughing about how fast I'd leveled up. Mostly because I was doing it via street-sweeping (didn't get a real firm grasp of the missions structure at first).

Even so, with how fast levels come nowadays, sometimes, running solo, progress can still feel like it's measured in inches (especially villain-side nowadays) every now and again.

No, he's not going to win this debate because it's not a debate. It's a troll from you on the rest of the people in the thread. You're simply standing there spouting BS and looking to see what kind of rise you get out of people.



Yup. Keep shoveling that BS. Maybe, some day, you might actually believe it. Of course, nobody else with two synapses to rub together will.