Hyperstrike

Pretty much.

Any or all of them. Granted, you want to take care to buff Psi Def/Res effectively.

NOPE!

Never had a PI problem while I was in Scouting either. Assorted nasty cuts, bugspray in the eyes, and being molested by infinite mosquitoes in upstate Wisconin (where they're the State Bird). Ever see a single mosquito bite welt larger than a Kennedy Half-Dollar? Well, some of that might be because, with my troop, they used to say "Where 63 goes, nothing grows..." And they even made me an Eagle Scout! Those FOOLS! HMBOOWAHAHAHA! Think Evil Batman. BE PREPARED!

High speed, low drag Regen to put some pep in the step of Stone? Bibbity! Bobbity! BUU! Ah crap... Wrong one! Here's my take on it.

... ... The primal screaming in my head. It won't stop. IT... WON'T... STOP!!!

Who needs vampires when we have WARSHADES? Vamps just suck your blood. Warshades will swallow your soul! HMBOOWAHAHAHAHAHAHA!

Did it on live once Not QUITE 7B, but close. ONCE. Got greedy and wasn't paying attention to my zeroes. So I raided my piggy bank. Then logged off. Logged back in on that character a couple days later. Went to look in and cash out. What? WHAAAAT!?!?!?!?!? No. Nonononononono... AUUUUUUUUUGHHHHH!!!

Nonono. How many times do I have to tell you? That's not a spacer! THIS is!

I do the niche marketing thing to put initial operating capital on my characters. So, usually by the time I'm 10th level, I can afford level appropriate enhancements until generic IOs at 30 or so.

Howsabout this for some "Beast Mode"?

Hopefully they bought you flowers and dinner first...

*Slides into frame w/ super-deformed angry-face* *WHAP!*

I did leave the last power blank. And yes, i moved the powers around like Infinitum did to basically mimic the EM Beta stuff.

I prefer Fly. JEEEEETPAAAAAACK!

Here's a slightly different take. And YES, I took Taunt. A Tauntless Tank is an abomination in the eyes of the Tank Gods. You may as well play a Flabby Little Girlie Brute or a Scrapper who thinks they can PAHMP themselves AHP!

Is there a DB update for Mid's for the new EM changes yet?

#Kleenex!

For ranged attackers and non-Tank/Brute/Scrapper types, KB/Repel powers are valid mitigation. Yes, in team situations, it's not so necessary. But solo? Kicking people out to range isn't a huge downside.

On a Resist-Centric Fire Armor tank, the Defense drop isn't really that much of an issue.

I'll just leave this high-recharge build here. And I agree, Dwarf will deliver capped SLFC Resist and E/N Resist around 80%. Tox: 63.5%. Psi: 46%

Weaker? In S&L? DOES NOT COMPUTE!

SSD = Samsung EVO (OS/Apps/Scratch Drive) Prefer the Pro drives for work-related stuff (big on warranty coverage). But the Evos have proven damnably durable. HDD = Western Digital Gold These are not standard commodity-grade drives. 2.5x time Mean Time Between Failures interval and better numbers (by a factor of 10) on Unrecoverable Read Errors (important in RAID setups). Motherboard I've been an Asus guy for a while due to stability. But their product and warranty support can be asstastic at times. Used to love ABit enthusiast boards. And will be going ASRock (a corporate cousin of Asus through Pegatron) for my new build. Their current last few generations of boards have been solid, stable performers. And I actually like an engineering decision they've made. Some boards, if running more than one NVMe drive, shuts down 2 SATA controllers for every drive after the first. ASRock is different. Instead of shutting off storage options, they opt to disable the third (technically PCIe5) slot to scrounge the I/O. Seeing as multi-GPU solutions are going by the wayside, this will generally affect fewer people. CPU Agreed about best CPU you can get for the money. As for liquid cooling, I've had a 280mm All-In-One in my main machine for about 6 years now. Still going, haven't sprung a leak. Nice, solid, dependable. Now, custom loops and stuff, for that, you're kinda on your own. RAM I've had good luck with G.Skill and Crucial/Micron and Kingston. I've TRIED stepping outside of this for specialty "performance" memory. And I've been disappointed. Compatibility problems, even when on the approved memory lists, etc. GPU Big fan of Display Port. My current 970 is driving 3 Display Port monitors. And, if I wanted, I could run at least two of them daisy-chained. PSU I agree to out-spec your PSU a bit. Blowing a PSU can destroy other components. So not getting "just enough" ensures you have some headroom. Case I agree about filters. Dusting cases SUCKS. Even ones with good accessibility. I prefer roomier cases. "Quiet" cases tend to either be really cramped, or have poor general cooling. I've grown to hate cramped cases. Too much bloodshed. UPS: I'm running a Back-UPS Pro 1500S. The house I bought still has the orignal 1974 wiring, plus a bunch of half-assery the previous owner tied in... So power delivery can be a bit wonky at times. Not TERRIBLY unstable. But every now and again, *CLICK*

1: If you're going to spend out that much for a motherboard, spend out for an X570 board. Current top of the line. More neat features. 2: Also another nice feature on the ASRock boards is, if you pick a board that can mount multiple PCIe/NVMe drives, NONE of them will disable any of the SATA controllers. At worst, if you have a board that can mount 3 PCIe drives, it'll disable the third PCIe video card slot. (PCIe5). Since SLI (and similar technologies) is falling out of mainstream support, this is no great loss for most people, and leaves you with LOTS of options for storage connections. I know the first boards that came with 3 PCIe/NVMe drive would give you the first drive "free". But 2_1 and 2_2 would each disable a pair of SATA headers. I can't tell you how happy this makes me in buiding my new rig. 3: IF you can stretch your budget, consider moving to the Ryzen 3 5900 chip. The new compute unit architecture has given Ryzen a HEFTY performance bump. Both in gaming and in application performance. And, right now, the Ryzen 5*** series chips beat the Intel 10-series chips. In both single and multi-threaded performance. The 5900x is basically the 3900xt with some improvements and a teensy boost to the boost clock speed. Same power envelope. 4: IRONBLADE The base clock for the 3900XT is 3.8. The boost clock is 4.7Ghz. 5: If you're buying a new case, I'd recommend something sporting 140mm fans. For the next reason. 6: I recommend moving to an All-In-One liquid cooler. They're not TERRIBLY expensive. And they'll be quieter than all but the biggest, loudest air coolers. Minimum recommendation is a 280mm (2x140) or 360mm (3x120) setup, depending on what your case can accommodate. 7: Ignore whether or not a board comes with flashy lights or not. You can disable that crap. 8: If CoH is your only game, I'd disregard Ironblade's advice about CPU and GPU costing the same. Realistic performance in CoH isn't going to vary that much. Simply throwing more power at the game isn't a 1-for-1 trade. I've seen massive quad-GPU setups realize only tiny framerate and VQ gains versus a single card. 9: Memory compatibility is important. Check against the various vendors' sites if possible. As well as the approved memory list if the motherboard manufacturer provides one. Crucial.com's (Micron) got a decent site and pretty much, if you put the right info in, GUARANTEES their memory to be compatible. You're going to want MINIMUM of DDR 3200 memory. Look at higher clocked memory if you really want to. But you're better off going with standard-rated memory with the lowest CAS speed possible (a lot of the OC'ed stuff really IS just the standard stuff with the CAS latency kicked up so it doesn't flip out at higher clock speeds). Now, if you can find the OC'ed stuff with nearly the same CAS latency, GREAT! It's gonna cost you more though. And most of the speed benefit is only going to come out in benchmarks. Basically as clock speed goes up, so does CAS. And anything beyond 2 points of latency, and you're better off just using the lower clockspeed stuff. 10: The 1TB drive looks to be decent. Personally I'm a Samsung guy. But that's me. Currently I'm on 500MB SATA drives. And I'm only using a bit less than half. But the bulk of my storage is on actual hard drives. And my new box is going to be a RAID-10'ed Quad HD setup. Because, for all their faults, spinning rust is still the king of storage density on a per-TB basis. In your case, you're doing graphics stuff. I might suggest a second SSD (smaller if you can't budget for two of the same size) for an actual work drive. And then as big of a HD as you can afford for bulk storage.

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