Hyperstrike

There are three possibilities that come to mind.

1: Someone uninstalled it (accidentally or intentionally).
2: One of your Windows patches bolloxed it up.
3: You've tried a beta driver at some time in the past. A while back one of ATI's beta drivers was known to completely destroy the Catalyst Control.

What the? Lemme investigate this...



Okay. Somethin' VERY wrong with this tree.



Ah ha! What have we here?



Fake! Nemesis tree plot!

One place where Nova really shines at low levels is caves. On my first PB I went human-form, it was sometimes agonizing how squishy he seemed running content in the Hollows. On teams he was way more fun due to spread aggro and CB. But still. H

e was stuck in his mid 30's due to how painful he was to play. Darned near became my first deletion.

Then I took another PB on and went Nova. Just to see what it was like. Dear LORD it was so much easier.

Remember, for most low level enemies, they have a ranged attack that deals significantly less damage than their melee attacks (trolls in particular). You just go up and smootch ceiling and blast and blast and blast (and blast and blast and blast!) and stuff just...goes away. Keep a couple greens on you just in case.

After rapidly getting that second PB into the early 20's, I went back and respec'ed my original for tri-form and have been VERY happy since.

Stick a bunch of reds and yellows in e-mail, eat a bunch of purples, and then just bypass her mobs. Beat on her while retrieving your yellows and reds, eat em, and beat her down.

Okay, said this in another thread. People using both ATI and nVidia drivers are reporting greater-than-usual crash frequency since i19.

It's POSSIBLE it's a driver issue, but the platform-agnostic nature of the problem leads me to believe there's something crufty in the game itself that requires a bit of tweaking.

I have a GTX260 as well and I'm having an inordinate amount of crashes as well. PLUS I'm getting occasional screen freezes with ugly sound-burp/buzz as well.

But we're not alone. People on the ATI side are reporting an inordinate amount of crashes too.

While I'd LOVE to blame it on drivers and such, I kinda doubt it with the frequency and platform-agnostic nature of the crashing.

I've pulled shards from multiple Rikti invasions already. I see no reason to think that it'd be otherwise for the other two events.

Okay let me try to distill what I was trying to say down to it's simplest form. Since people are taking rock-hammers to the examples and missing the basic point.

1: Simply because the devs say "no" (however often or emphatically is NOT a reason not to ask.

2: This being said, I agree with the devs (and everyone who's replied to me) that in this case, NOT allowing "total respecs" is a Good Thing<TM>. For many of the other reasons put forth in this thread (and in many others).

I just don't want people falling into the trap of "Thus Sayeth The Lord" and "Once said, it's immutable" with the addendum (spoken or implied) of "so shut up about it". The devs are human. They can opt to change their minds at a later date.

And responding to arguments from this POV is the worst form of sloppy "thinking". Because there's no actual "thought" going into it at that point for the response.