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Originally Posted by Draeth Darkstar

The title pretty much says it all. Why is there only one remotely useful set bonus in the Mastermind ATO set (being +Recharge, which isn't even good for every Mastermind primary/secondary combo)?

Damage set bonuses don't effect pets, which makes that utterly useless, Masterminds have the lowest base HP in the game, so a maxhp bonus is trivial, and resistance bonuses are only remotely valuable when you already have a lot of resistance to add them to, which, obviously, a Mastermind does not - not that their resistance hard caps are high enough for it to matter anyway.

Could we get some of these changed to something relevant, like Defense, which at least gives a feasible boost to survivability when stacked, or recovery, for the end. heavy secondaries?

Originally Posted by Blue_Centurion

Someone is posting in player help that they want to buy $2,500.00 gaming rig from Dell. Can someone run over there with any advice?

Originally Posted by Samuel_Tow

I know I've made these threads occasionally and never followed up on them, but it's starting to become very, very clear that I may simply no longer have a choice in the matter if I intend to play any part of the game newer than 2009 or so. So, because people seem to love accusing me of not listening, this is me throwing in the towel and asking to listen.

I actually do have a few specific questions in mind, and none of them are character- or AT-specific. Just general ones.

1. What must one do to acquire the resources needed to make Inventions - recipes and salvage? Can this be done by just playing Story Arcs and regular missions like I always have, or do I need to run Architect missions or farm Alignment missions or such?

2. Is it possible to build specifically at level 50, using only level 50 Inventions, or do I have to have a menagerie of different numbers on my Enhancements screen?

3. What defines "cheap" vs. "expensive" sets? Market price? Ticket cost? Merit cost? Is there any way to tell which is which before I commit to it?

4. Does everyone have to build for Defence? Seemingly, whether your sets provide defence or not, and even whether you're melee or not, everyone suggests building for defence. What else should I build for as a general thing? Recharge? Endurance? What?

5. Is it possible to develop a basic template that's at least generally applicable to a whole AT with whatever amount of tweaking, or does every character essentially require starting a build design from scratch?

6. How much work is it to put together a decent, "cheap" build at the level cap as opposed to, say, buying a full set of Common Inventions, assuming I have the build worked out beforehand?

I'm not trolling, I'm not joking, I'm not even just talking empty. I simply don't have the strength to fight people tooth and nail about not using Inventions any more when newer content clearly assumes I am. I'm starting to feel like I have to either "get with the programme" or quit the game entirely. And I don't want to quit the game quite yet, if at all possible. So this is me giving up and just trying to wrap my head around the thing.

Originally Posted by Nadazdy

I've been having severe crash issues since the latest patch, and I have 12.1 installed.

Originally Posted by Wing_Leader

Yeah, I also see that occasionally on Virtue. And, like Wicked Wendy, I simply ignore those leagues and go do something else.

I agree with pretty much everyone around here that high player competence is more valuable, in general, than full IO sets or particular power sets. But the level shift thing I sorta get, after all, the purple patch imposes significant penalties for level differences, and when you simply don't have the survivability and dps to take out MM in under three minutes in the final fight, well, there's not much point in even starting the trial. The scant astrals and threads you'll earn aren't worth it, IMO.

Originally Posted by mousedroid

Just out of curiosity, what percentage of the game's player base lives within say... a three hour drive of wherever this is being held?

I mean I understand that it's convenient and inexpensive for Paragon Studios to hold this in their backyard, and when it was just a glorified meet and greet, I didn't have an issue with that. But now it's a "Players Summit" where players are giving real input on the future of the game, and it's being limited to those who can drive to, or afford to fly to it. That's not right.

If you held one in the fall in CA and one in the spring on the east coast, the midwest, the south, or even in Europe, fine because then you'd be including more than just the same people all the time, but now it sounds like you won't even be coming to the east coast this spring. Which means that if you come to NYCC this fall, CA will have had three player summits to our one meet and greet in a year and a half.

Originally Posted by Father Xmas

AMD has several Fusion series, A series is their top end, E series is their low power model targeted at netbook class devices.

Well the A6 and A8 are full blown Athlon II X4 cores with turbo boost while the E-450 is a much simpler dual core design with less memory cache and only single channel memory.

Same goes with the GPU side of the chips. The A6 has 320 shaders, the A8 has 400, the E-450 has only 80.

Overall in gaming we are looking at around 3 times the gaming performance with an A8-3500m over an E-450.

So do you want a Netbook for it's small size and battery life or are you simply looking for an inexpensive laptop?

Comparison of the E-350 and the A8-3500m. The E-450 is a refresh of the E-350 allowing faster memory and runs at slightly higher clock speed.