Miss Chief

Ok, now I have respecs coming out of my ears on every toon of mine but I can understand how some people may not, but paying for one? Not sure if this will actually be taken up by that many people. respec recipes still go for 40 million inf these days?

You could consider a single Ati 4870X2 when it comes out. Essentially 2 cards on a single board but quite expensive. Should be quite a bit faster than your 8800GT Sli setup. Although unless you're running a huge res on a big monitor I find my single 8800GT works just fine on any game @1680x1050, Bar Crysis of course but even then that doesn't look too bad!

I thought about adding this to my Flash arrow but was worried about it aggro'ing and it seems it does. Glad I haven't slotted it now

I see some of the suggestions here about Io's and enhancements. you guys do know you can bin any slotted enhancement any time you want by dragging it to the bin icon?

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Most definitely NOT an integrated solution with Intel anything. You'll want a pure standalong graphics chipset but if you can avoid the 8600m chipsets, they're ALL faulty but Nvidia is trying to cover it up. Something with a Dual Core T series intel CPU, 2Gb Ram and a stand alone gfx card would be ideal.

Something like This would be more than sufficient. If you could push your budget a little then This has a 17" Screen, better for playing games on but I can't see what graphics chip it has.

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I have a laptop from Dell with a GeForce 8600M GT inside... what's faulty about it?? It seems to work fine so far...

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loads of info around. Here for a start.

Most definitely NOT an integrated solution with Intel anything. You'll want a pure standalong graphics chipset but if you can avoid the 8600m chipsets, they're ALL faulty but Nvidia is trying to cover it up. Something with a Dual Core T series intel CPU, 2Gb Ram and a stand alone gfx card would be ideal.

Something like This would be more than sufficient. If you could push your budget a little then This has a 17" Screen, better for playing games on but I can't see what graphics chip it has.

AFAIK primary powers give a better damage boost than Secondary ones.

i find that the method described above, moving out of Line of sight when you have aggro works most of the time. I usually find it's due to knockback of some sort.

The Securecode process means every time there's an online purchase you'll be asked for this securecode. That means maestro can't be used for recurring billing subscriptions.

i suspect what they'll offer is the ability to purchase a game time code which you thene nter manualy. They won't be able to do it on a regular, automatic basis.

Sayten is right though, the banks call this security but in relaity if someone has these details then the bank will wash their hands of the complaint as surely you must have either given the details away or allowed them to be used fraudulently. Same with chip and pin. If someone finds out or knows your pin that's your fault, not the banks.

I love the 'Winner will receive one Core 2 Duo (2.2Ghz) and a copy of City of heroes issue 12: midnight hour. nothing about monitor, PC, case, just the CPU!

I used Asus cos I was trying to keep the cost down, nothing more.

Perhaps a red name response as to WHY they've done this would be good rather than just being told they no longer accept this method of payment.

Every shop and online store that I've come across in my online life (which started out when AOL charged per hour) has taken Switch and then maestro. As I said, it's BY FAR the most common type of debit card available to UK bank account holders. Any online retailer worth it's salt will take maestro and I'm sure if you check on just about any online retailer, be that B&Q, Amazon, play.com, Scan.co.uk ebuyer.com or even some of the smaller ones they'll ALL take maestro.

Seems a very strange decision to make. Maestro is one of the most popular debit cards in the UK. I cans ee this causing a lot fo problems. Some people won't be bothered with the hassle of ordering a timecard and waiting for it to arrive when they SHOULD be able to use their card directly.

Some justification for this would be nice!

The PC spec is not so bad but alot of the stuff is useless guff. The graphics card on the second one for example. 1GB of memory on a card that slow will never be used. Cheap trick to make out the card is better than it actually is.

From Ebuyer:

ASUS P5GC-VM i945GC Socket 775 onboard
Zotac 8800GT 512MB DDR3
Intel Pentium Dual Core E2220 2.4GHz (800MHz) Socket 775
Antec Sonata III Piano Black Quiet Mid Tower Case - With 500W EarthWatts PSU
OCZ 2GB Kit (2x1GB) DDR2 800MHz/PC2-6400
Samsung HD502IJ SpinPoint F1 500GB Hard Drive SATAII 7200rpm 16MB Cache - OEM Cart total inc vat:£330.38

For a far better machine to boot! No OS (not included in yourmachine listed either), no KB, mouse, speakers or monitor as well.

*Forgot to add a DVD-RW, another £15 on the total! Sorry!

The BP do appear in a portal mission hero side 45-50 but that's it. Perhaps a mid-range co-op TF where Skulls, BP and Tsoo all come together to create some sort of Demon summoning deal? perhaps even the Devil himself? hmm, perhaps that might skirt a bit too close to the religious side that would create uproar in some parts of the US.

DM is great for a Brute as the attacks (Shadow maul excepted) are fast and you can get a full attack chain very early with Air Sup and has the advantage of a lowish self heal as well. it also goes well with SR as the dark attacks do -acc/-tohit which will help your Defence based secondary.

the thing about invuln is how you approach each mob. A Regen or SR can sit on the outside of the mob and whittle away at them. An Invuln needs to get right into the middle of the mob and use the taunt aura to improve the defence you get from invincibility. Playstyle makes a difference although as has been said, a Brute is not a tank!

you';ve also missed the opportunity to slot several procs into Glue arrow and oil slick arrow.

GM Emily helped ius on the ITF that we couldn;t complete as the last boss dude died and didn't res and we were most appreciative. She was really helpful and most of all fast in response which i really wasn't expecting at 1AM!

i'm guessing it's the winged boots that is causing this. it happens on my blaster who has cloaking device, there's always a slight blue/green tinge to the trail even though none of my cossie is green and when in SG mode it's red and white.

Make sure to uninstall the old drivers completely, use the Ati Driver cleaner that's available on their website, THEN install the new ones.

Rather than taking Serendipity for your defensive toggles why not go for Luck of the Gambler instead? With this set you get:

Two enhancements improves your Regeneration by 10%.
Three enhancements increases maximum Health by 1.13%.
Four enhancements improves the Accuracy of all your powers by 9%.

Very very worth it, much more so than Serendipity IMO. You could probably do without Focussed Accuracy if you're getting a decent acc bonus although I have it in my build atm but mine is BS/Invuln. After I use Dull pain I get 28HP/Sec regen, which is pretty good for an invuln!

I've had a few in my time but The one in my Sig, also got a Claws/DA up to lvl 34 but when my DB/WP one got to within 2 levels I deleted her. My WP scrapper hasn't been played much recently, been concentrating on my Brute (lvl 41 Elec/FA) and my Blaster as per my sig again.

I managed to play Tank on the Imp TF with my Scrapper as we didn't have one, was well pleased as I hardly died at all but we did have plenty of debuffs.