PumBumbler

If you want to monetize the amount, look at how much the LotG 7.5% goes for on the markets. Check out all the +recharge set bonus IOs on the auction houses.

Recharge and permahasten are right behind def capping for high end builds. Speed boost can grant more recharge than 5-slotting LotG +7.5%. That in itself is a huge incentive to keep your team speed boosted.

Even on high end toons the recharge rates benefit from speed boosting. Powers that recharge in 20 minutes, 30 minutes and one hour cooldowns can be used twice or much more in the span of a single TF.

Some of the powers are Eye of the Magus, Team teleport vet power, Vanguard, etc. Of course this also means any AT's standard powers including tier9 powers. This means the entire team can modify their attack chain to rely on more powerful attacks that they may not normally cycle as quickly through because of recharge and endurance issues.

A good kinetic will keep everyone speed boosted. A smart kinetic will keep a rad perma boosted for perma AM. A great kinetic will stack speed boost outside missions, transfuse, fulcrum shift and hit transference right after someone nukes so their toggles don't even drop.

The safest enemy is a defeated one, so having everyone on your team blowing everything up 50% faster is pretty good for a single power. On a full team, that means 7 people doing things 1.5x faster. The downside is that you have to manage a very busy set.

Is your OS up to date? It seems like there's a bunch of OpenGL fixes that Apple is working on as well so it might fix your black screen issues.

Everyone should email Megumi something in game. Like teddy bears.

This birthday was brought to you by the letters T and A.

If CoX seems to run better when in the background, it would seem that CoX is starving the resources of the system when it is active?

Have you tried going into your system control panel and tweaking the advanced system settings -> performance to background services to see what happens to your game performance?

As a moderator of neither channel, I would ask that you guys take it to tells. Not exactly a community building exercise by making Cai's thread all angst ridden.

Who's Hery?

Who's Iggy?

So are the dead people dead to you forever?

Are mitos affected by cage powers? If so, getting some grav/dark love on them might be a decent way towards keeping some mitos (greens and yellows I would guess) at bay while hami gets whacked.

Sorry to hear you are having issues. I have nothing to add in terms of the recommended solutions but I'll put in my 2 inf.

1. The data you have stored is the most important stuff you have there. If you don't have a backup strategy, consider doing it now. Daily/weekly offsites, mirrored drives, scripted/timed backups are necessary if you want to keep the data. If it's not stored in triplicate for me I guess I wanted to lose it.

2. Adding a good UPS(es) was the best thing I ever did for the stability of my systems. I used to blame occasional errors and bluescreens on the OS or software configurations, and even hardware failures, even though I always made sure to use name brand quality gear.

Ever since I got everything on the UPS system, nothing has failed, and my system has been rock solid since. Even things like failing power supplies have disappeared (crosses fingers) from my list of common problems. Must be the UPS conditioning the power (ie., no spikes or brownouts) making the components less stressed.

Download a tool that can monitor your GPU and CPU temperatures.

Download furmark and see if it is GPU temperature related.

Card could be failing or maybe it can be saved by a new fan or reseating the heatsink or new thermal paste.

Download Prime95 to see if it is CPU/mem heat related.

Usually one of the two are the problem.

Oh yeah, forgot a common culprit, could the Power Supply going bad. Blow it out, don't open it because there are lots of little doodads in there that can give you an instant perm if not kill you outright.

They should lower the cap to 50 emails per day, but remove ALL CAPS (hehe) on mail to self and global friends and SGmates.

If you're thinking about doing a fast raid on hami, you're probably going to need to make sure everyone has adequate knockback protection as well.

Slotting IOs for kb, like zephyrs and karmas etc will be good, as well as using the base buff station for kb protection before the raid gets started.

Kinetics should also be on hand to hand out ID to the shivans and heavies to maximize their usefulness once the spawns get deployed.

A bubbler or two would be good to avoid squishies needing anti mez buffing.

Fallout would be useful as well. Dunno if enough stacked Leadership/Vengeance/Magus would work but worth a shot.

Edit: One more thing. You might have to do an EoE count since the AH is down (still?). Without the ability to buy EoEs you may have to set up a farm date to have EoEs on hand.