Mr. Apocalypse

I agree 100% I have both on my Dark Dark, I originally was Musculature, but switched over to intuition.. I used musculature for the end mod help while I was trying to get ageless finished, then switched over to intuition after I was T4 on all the other incarnates.

here is my build, I have not played this toon since about a month after Symphony control was introduced. I built it up and then lost interest in the toon. It probably needs some work as it was my first draft, and I never really fleshed it out. Black Opera - Dominator - Symphony Control_Dark Assault_Ice Mastery.mxd

Whirling mace seemed pretty lackluster, so I swapped it for bash with no other changes to my build. My overall attack pace now seems faster with more animation flow, I have not seen any downside so far. are there any situations where I will really miss not having this power, or could I have slotted it better to make more use of it.? (Procs etc) here are both versions of the build. like I said they are identical except for one has WM and the other has bash. any advice or changes welcome. Shujaa Wa Giza WM/SD - w /BashShujaa Wa Giza WM/SD - w /Whiling mace.mbd Shujaa Wa Giza 6 - Scrapper - War Mace_Shield Defence_Soul Mastery.mbd

I have been running AIO for cooling for last 20 years, never have I had one leak, ever. I have only used corsair, and out of 15 or so AIOs I only have had 1 pump failure and zero leaks

they are all great, but this one checks all the boxes.. well done!

But if you know how you can fly to one just outside of pocket D

It was a pretty sad day today, they announce 15% cut in workforce, and that they missed 2nd quarter projections. stock dropped over 20%

more bad news, Intel will be having a meeting tomorrow where they are planning to announce a 10% reduction in workforce approximately 10,000 to be layed off. I heard the news from one of my customers, but it was announced yesterday. it is all over the web.

My major issue with intel, from a semi-insider perspective, is they don't care anymore about the quality of the product. and they really haven't since the engineer purge between 2015 and now. lets also not forget the latest side channel vulnerability in the 13/14th chips, there was vulnerabilities with 11th gen, that required a performance hitting uefi software patch to mitigate. Until Intel, starts to care about the product more than the profit again, they wont se a nickle from me. I will buy AMD. I'm not having any illusions that AMD is any better, but ignorance is bliss in this situation. I see what I see everyday when I go into work, and the focus has been lost and the internal culture has been destroyed. They are no longer hiring based upon a "we want the best", but rather DEI has taken over the hiring process. While, at the same time They are pouring exorbitant amounts of money into the foundry business, and cutting experienced manpower. Three engineers that I know personally took packages to leave last week, they were all 25+ years with Intel. There were 100s more in other groups throughout the company that were offered packages to leave as well. Imagine a company struggling to make good product, offering their best up to 2 years of salary, and 1 years of medical coverage to go away, so that they can turn around and replace them with someone who just graduated college, or just immigrated from another country and will do the same work for half the money. This is what is happening at Intel. It is sad to watch as they destroy themselves from the inside out. Intel chip security issues PC world "downfall" vulnerability article

that is not what I said. I noted that there are packaging related issues as well, that go back to the 12th gen, many of these processes have not changed going into the 13th and 14th gen chips so there is buzz within the engineers that this may also be a contributing factor in some of the problems. I don't get my info from links on the web, I get it from small talk in the labs when I am around different engineers that come and go, and from the techs that are doing the Lamella prep.

Nope it is in all of them. The issues were 1st spotted in the I9's because of their usage in higher profile applications, but the issue that is causing the problem is in all versions of the 13th and 14th gen silicon all the way down to the i3 chips. There are other issues also with how all chips are mounted to the packaging going back to 12th gen and possibly further back into older generations, but not being seen as much because of the more robust silicon structures in the older gen chips and the related interface between the chiplets and the packaging. Also one thing that is a must if you have a Intel processor, if the CPU package is not a square you need to replace the hold down on your mother board with a contact frame. The rectangle packaging flexes causing poor contact between the heat spreader and the chips beneath. Replacing the stock hold down clamp with a contact spreader will lower the temps by up to 10-15C and prolong the life of the CPU, but wont correct the inherent silicon issues. Only the voltage profiles they now recommend will help to prolong the life due to the silicon problems. Ultimately there is about a 75% chance all 13th and 14th gen chips will fail within 24 months of first use, and that is pretty poor IMO. *** note*** Take any of what I have stated with a grain of salt, and don't base anything on my words alone. I could be wrong on certain details, and don't want to be sued for libel. But what I have said is general consensus amongst people I speak with daily.

They are hard at work and are trying to recover, But the difference is the engineering teams they have VS what they had. There is this unteachable knowledge, that comes with 30 years or more experience, that can only be designed into the product, by those that have been there and done that. Right now what you have is a mix of those older engineers, butting heads with new engineers that are constantly trying "new things" that have already been done before and were abandoned for obvious reasons. They are really pushing and trying to get back those very experienced engineers onto their teams, but the cost high, and Intel is weak financially now. The real cost aside from hiring back more experienced engineers, is the people that I work for on the back end of R&D and FA. They are being given packages to leave. Which translates into real problems don't get identified by skilled technicians during the FA process due to increases in lost samples. In many cases losing a sample during FA means that issue will never again be seen, possibly until it shows up en-masse on the final product. It also deprives the new engineers from seeing how their design does not translate from paper to silicon. They are also diversifying into being a foundry to keep up with income flow, but that is very expensive, and obviously fab development, and construction take a lot of time and money away from the other business. I predict that Intel, will never be the top chip maker again, like they were in the 90's with only their products, and will be making more of other companies product than their own. Intel has its sights firmly set on taking a bite out of TSMC's market share in the foundry market. Who really knows what it means for the consumer market, likely more low end chips destined to go in cheaply made inferior products, so they can fluff their bank accounts. While the real focus will be be high dollar silicon production for AI, and future technologies, that they can charge very high prices for within the corporate sector. I also think the name "INTEL" wont be on the signs of the foundries within 10 years, and will be called something else while the name will remain on their R&D business. As a whole, I dont think intel hold 1/10th of their current market share. I cold be wrong, but I have been in the industry for over 30 years and have seen a lot of big players go away, not with a bang, but whimper. Only Time will tell,

I work @ Intel servicing equipment for both the ATTD and SPPD groups. ATTD is Failure analysis for the chips and SPPD is the packaging group Process development. The problems with the 13 and 14 gen chips are both in the silicon and in the packaging process. Without specifically being told due to Intelectual property restrictions, Its not hard to gather from the types of samples being run on a daily basis. These CPU's issues are the result of years of cutting R&D work forces and replacing the engineers with newer, younger and cheaper employees. (most of the engineers they let go around 2015, ended up at AMD and Nvidia) all of this happend because they had a new CEO named Bob Swan, he was bean counter and he fumbled badly after he was made CEO after the sudden resignation of Brian Krzanich. At least the new CEO is an engineer, but the damage was already done. I started there in 2014 and it has been a steady decline. I have had an intel employee offer to by me a 14 gen with his 50% discount and I declined. It is also really bad when you hear from an Intel employee theat they have an AMD gaming rig, because he knows that even with a 50% discount it's not worth the trouble to build with one. OH how the Mighty have fallen I am running a i9-9900k, but my next will definitely be an AMD. edit again: I looked up some stuff, and I was a little fuzzy on the Dates with the CEOs. Bob Swan was CFO at the time when all the Layoffs and firings happened, then took over for Brian Krzanich in 2018 as CEO

I bought nit when It was 1st launched, put into it about 250 hours and got burnt out with the repetition. I have not looked at it since. I think I may have to give it another spin!

yep you guys are right, I really wasn't thinking about it that way, because I never farmed for Empyrean merits specifically, the most I ever get from farming is 3 per toon. My farmer quit earning them several hundred vet levels back. I just have few of them left over from time to time and was trying to think of something to do with them, besides send them one at a time to my alts via e-mail to buy their incarnate stuff. When I have finished kitting out a build with all T4 incarnates, I usually have at least 1 or 2 left over, and I was not thinking of the bigger picture

I have found that in general, calling people names, or in this case discounting their reasons for an answer and referring to them as a low-effort Nay-sayers, shows that you really have no respect for the others that have been playing this game for the last 20 years or so, and the in depth knowledge they have garnered from the current and past Devs. On that note, many of us have made a suggestion that flopped, don't take it personal. Since I was the first to respond to your post, I want top let you know this: don't kid yourself that I didn't put any effort into my reply. I put as much as was needed, to know it was a bad idea, as evident now by the almost complete lack of support you have received. Sorry if your feelings got damaged in the process, it was not the intent, and that is entirely on you.

I still think if the exchange rate were at the right point it could satisfy both the player base and the Devs , but it's obviously their call. I am looking at it from this perspective, I would like to do stuff with/ use the PA rewards system, but I personally probably will never do the content that awards them in any great numbers, because I dont team, ever, ever, ever, and don't plan to. I solo exclusively, mainly because I have heath issues and have to remove myself from the keyboard quite frequently and therefore, am not a reliable team mate. I farm and build 50s till I get all T4 incarnate, then repeat. I'm one of those players,

Just give me this as one of the weapon options, KISS baby!

Like the title says, allow Empyrean Merits to be converted to Prismatic Aethers, since they can no longer be converted to Reward merits, at whatever exchange rate wont break the current rewards metrics. I was thinking like a 2:1 conversion or perhaps 3:1. But I would leave that to those that know more than me 🙂 This will allow some of us to at least have a use for them outside of purchasing incarnate salvage.

I'm going to have to say no. This would be to much like gear stats in other games and will end up making everyone just max out the sliders or minimize depending on the effect wanted. But more than that, it would kill concept builds, as you would possibly have to make a unwanted sacrifices in order to have the look you want.

I see. I was going to say something about CPU bottlenecks and gaming based upon your previous statement, but I see that you want it for the AI processing. I don't have much experience on that aspect of hardware pairing so I will take your word on the more powerful card being better for the AI. 🙂 I have 19-9900k and a 3070 ti. I have upgraded the GPU 2 x from 1070ti -> 2070 super and finally my 3070 Ti. All really cheap nib e-bay finds and I saw no real performance gain in this game @ 1080p. but when I went up to the 2070 super I also moved to a 1440p res monitor and the 2070 was definitely an improvement, however the 3070TI only added very minimal frame rate increase in any titles due to my bottleneck now being in the 30% range. I kind of got caught in the wrong thinking that more card automatically meant more performance. At lease I only paid ~$200 per card and the purchases were really so I could hand the others down to my kids' PCs.

I noticed you are over the 6.25% recharge cap with one of your set placements. You might want to consider swapping up one of those sets for similar bonuses with either a different recharge time bonus or some other set bonus that would be more beneficial. I would probably replace the stupefy set in heart of darkness with a set of absolute amazement, if the recharge bonus was the most important reason for 5 slotting with Stupefy.

what processor do you use? out of curiosity

Same here, I have on many occasions seen something I like and taken a great part of design for may own, only making minor changes to colors etc.

Hey, that is my costume, 😛 but not the one you saw at the contest! I have a dark/dark tank with an almost identical costume, except without the COT lower. I also used the spike head base to make a crown. I put it together back in 2019 right after the homecoming went online.