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My top (workaroundy) tip for this is to hit Dark Extraction first (even if it's not recharged) as that will automatically target the nearest corpse and then hit Unchain Essence. Though to be fair I tend to jump into a group, Mire, Gravity Well a minion to death and then hit UE whilst they're still targeted, which removes the need to select one.

They use post-hypnotic suggestion and as far as we know use it consciously, you only don't remember them if they don't want you to remember them.

What spec is your PC? How much RAM do you have? What OS are you running and is it 32 or 64-bit? Are you running other stuff in the background? Have you got the Launcher set to Quit after the game is launched?

Read reviews on sites like TomsHardware, Anandtech, Hexus, etc. Most of them will do "Best Component for $x" articles so you can tailor what you want to your budget. The more you have to spend the better your PC will be, but you can still make a pretty decent one for £300-£400.

Read a couple of articles on building your own PC, again the sites above may help, as will Google. As a base you need: A case, a power supply, a motherboard, a CPU, some RAM, a graphics card and a hard drive. If you don't have keyboard/mouse/monitor/Windows license then you'll need them as well.

Once you know what you want, go shopping; dabs.com, scan.co.uk, overclockers.co.uk & ebuyer.com are all good choices. Don't feel you have to buy everything from one place, you may find it's cheaper to buy some stuff from one place and some from another (pay attention to P&P costs though).

Well the drive size is fine (dependent on what you need to store, obviously) and 4Gb is sufficient (make sure you're running a 64-bit OS) though if you can afford it 6 or 8 would be better (again, 64-bit only).

Graphics card-wise, nvidia is your best bet for this game as ATI still has some issues and you're probably looking at something like the GTX 460 1Gb.

CPU-wise a core i5 would probably be a good choice, or a high-end i3 if you're on more of a budget, but you don't want a Core2 as they're much very last-gen.

Ask the Computer Engineers rather than the Computer Scientists (personal bias ) - most of them will work for Beer & Pizza.

If you're not comfortable building your own PC then it's probably best not to attempt it without help, but I would strongly recommend reading up on general specs so you know what you're after when looking at pre-built machines. Almost every one will have a couple of components that aren't really want you need.

There's a Firefox 7 that's just been released, 8 is in Beta and 9 in Alpha; it's part of their current "We must copy whatever Chrome does for no apparent reason" approach to browser development.

You'll probably find that your username has changed and is now prefixed with "EU". You probably have a US trial account that you're actually logging into without realising it (My username is "EU[Something]" and my old US Trial account username is "[Something]", both are active and initially had the same passwords).

Whoever is the active "sidekicker" gets the credit, i.e. whoever is at the top of the team list, setting the active level.

Heh, I wouldn't take Fire Farmers' words as gospel

On a farm, yes mob scatter is the ultimate disaster as it reduces your kill rate (especially with Fire as you rely on Burn a lot), but in actual gameplay, both Ice Storm and Freezing Rain are great powers, especially in combination.

Well really, http://na.cityofheroes.com/en/about_freedom/ should just redirect to the correct location or, even better, set it up properly so that "freedom_overview.php" is the actual index page for that directory.