Hyperstrike

Yeah, Godzilla going to be going away (or at least morphing into a new form) around/after XMas this year. Right now looking at either a Ryzen 7 3800XT or a Ryzen 9 3900X. It's going to be essentially a an almost totally new computer inside the same case.

Basically, I have little to no interest in zone PVP. Sorry, it's just not a play style that appeals to me. If you love it, knock yourself out! No. Seriously. Fist in the face! DOOOO IIIIIT! Kidding! But I have nothing but antipathy for the notion of base raiding. I don't pretend to be some base artiste. My skills in that direction are "I have all the utility a base provides and they're not otherwise empty rooms". And that's the extent of it. But the notion of someone coming in and trashing my stuff, and having to take the time to rebuild? Uh. No thanks. Again, not trying to crap on anyone here. The question of the thread is "How could we get you to try?" My answer (for me, personally) is "You cannot." Please don't ready anything further/personal into it. It's just personal preference, nothing more.

I'm prone to reflexive Tanking. Yeah. Even on Blasters. Looking for feedback on my Psy/Mental/Mace

Hats are hair... -- Zwillinger

Simple tweak of your current build.

It's the way the power's constructed. It delivers a large boost in S/L/E, but not Neg or corresponding boosts in Melee and Ranged. These can be enhanced. The Tox Resist simply can't.

And you haven't ground each other up and fed yourselves to the neighborhood cats yet?

I'm more powerful when everything is in the proper place!

Yeah, I'm OCD AF about my IO placement too...

It's kinda like PVP. Just no limit on the timer...

GIMMEH SOME MONEY!

Okay, my current rig is QUITE serviceable. But it's getting long in the tooth (coming up on it's 10th anniversary). It's an old i7 970 (Hex-Core, 3.2Ghz, Hyperthreading) It's essentially maxed on RAM (24 Gigs) 500GB SSD 2x1TB 7200 RPM Western Digital RE drives. 1x6TB HGST Deskstar NAS drive Formerly a 300GB 15,000 RPM (not a typo) Serial-Attached SCSI drive. (Has since failed.) So, looking at a new rig. Self-built again, because everything out of the major vendors is a locked-in rip-off. I could drop 2 large on an Alienware box. But I'd be horrendously disk-space-limited. Please keep in mind that my rig is PRIMARILY a WORKING computer with some gamer hardware in it. Otherwise I'd simply get a board, memory, CPU, a new SSD, liquid cooler, save a butt-ton of money and call it done. I'd be reusing my Thermaltake Core X9 case. An older version of this one. I'd be reusing my 3x U2718Q Monitors. I'll be reusing my RTX2060 as well. It's only about a year-ish old. Most of my system fans would remain the same (have a brand new replacement fan for the big 200mm system fan up front. I will probably also move over the 500GB SSD (and an identical brother), as well as the 6TB HGST. I won't be going hard-wire Optical drive on this one. So that frees up several SATA slots. I'll need to inspect it, but my Seasonic power supply may just stay where it is too. It was OP for the system to begin with. Going to be crossing the tracks too (unless Intel prices come WAY down). Ryzen 7 3800XT (8 core w/ Hyperthreading, 3.9Ghz base clock with a maximum boost clock of 4.7Ghz)No, this is not the top of the line for Ryzen 7, or even the Ryzen line. I COULD spring for a Threadripper 3990x and a sTRX4 board. But I can't really JUSTIFY that kind of expenditure for edge-case performance. The 3800XT (right now) sits at kinda the sweet spot of price and performance. Initially spec'ed a Gigabyte B550 Aorus Master. But I'm thinking about spending the extra money to get the X570 Aorus Master board instead. 32GB of RAM (Gimme 6 months and I'll probably bump it to 64...) 2TB PCI-E SSD (This is a BIT iffy, and kinda a splurge. My current SATA SSD is 500GB and is just over half full. I MAY back down to a 1TB to economize. I'll still have the two 500TB SATA drives if I want fast storage for things like instant reboot VMs. I'm going to be liquid cooling the CPU again as well. I sit right next to the thing. A small susurus of 140mm fans isn't a terrible thing. But some giant HSF would bite crank. My NZXT Kraken X61 (dual 140mm) is getting long in the tooth. So I'll be trading out for the Kraken X63. The X61's successor. Slightly larger, thicker radiator, more efficient pump, better cooling. Wish I could get a 420mm (3x140mm) setup, as my case can readily support it. But I'd have to custom-build my own solution. 4x 6TB WDC Red Pro drives. I have 7TB of NAS storage already. And it isn't really responsive enough for some of what I need to do (wouldn't run a VM off it to save my life.) So, mass local storage. Here's the initial build I did on Newegg. https://secure.newegg.com/wishlist/sd/Is8UVAhGAEowd1ZGJ4daVg== Here's a nearly identical build I put together over on Amazon. (Went with a slightly better motherboard. Was limited by Amazon to 3 drives. May order 2 from Newegg and 2 from Amazon (price is identical), just to make sure the drives aren't all same-batch) https://www.amazon.com/hz/wishlist/ls/E2NC0ENP9DNV Please note the component list may drift a bit too, depending on CPU and memory pricing around the time of purchase. I may, also, make a trip to my local MicroCenter. Because if I can get the CPU/Motherboard combo THERE, it'll almost certainly be cheaper. Not the board I WANT. But a $470 for a set of components that'd cost me $540 elsewhere? They even have a bundle that's the board I want, a 3900X (more cores, 3.8-4.6Ghz) for $894 (individual component prices, $959). We'll see what prices do. I'll check again around Black Friday. If the prices aren't SIGNIFICANTLY better, I'll check again on Boxing Day (Dec 26). Any questions? Comments? Criticisms? Have at please!

Hell, I am (comparatively) rich. And *I* wouldn't do it.

If your oldest is 56, you win. Because, as the oldest, (47) I'm QUITE certain my mom didn't start having kids at 15. My grandmother would have straight up shoved her into a sausage maker IN PUBLIC, then spread the grounds around the neighborhood. Smiling the entire time.

He's a quick modification of my "Blood From A Stone" concept (basically maxing out Resists as much as possible). Basically Resist-Capped to everything save Cold (82.3%) and Psi (88.8%), natively, with only the Alpha. Switching from Cardiac to Resilient would cap Psi. But your base End consumption would rise. If you assume you only get a singular bump from the +Res proc in Scorch, you can rely on the base Buff in Barrier and it'll cap Psi for you. Meltdown isn't really gonna do too much for you. But the +DMG is nice. And you become an absolute AOE MONSTER.

What can I say? Huge body type for the win!

So what was it like back then? Y''know... Before...dirt?

Then... (Subtitle: Me: Carry ME around mommy! My mom: I don't have an engine dolly to spare!) And now... (Me on the Left again, same brother in the middle)

Ackshually... No. It doesn't. Scorpion Shield is one of those edge-cases that is SOLELY Typed Defense. There is no Positional component in the power. AT ALL. So you get no Melee/Ranged/AoE Defense out of the power. Please keep this in mind on a Positional-Centric Defense build.

Hero: Eff it! I'm kickin' EVERYONE'S ASS!

#DoYouEvenHydra?

And if you want a single window blown up or made small, you can do it with /window_scale WindowName scale Window scale will increase/decrease the size between 64% and 199% (expressed in decimal, 0.64 to 1.99) I use it for league windows to make them more readable. /window_scale League 1.75 (I'm playing at, essentially, 6K resolution. So stuff that's perfectly viewable for me, at 1080p and .65, is nigh unreadable.) Note: If the window you're trying to resize is docked, it'll stay at the scale of the parent window. So either rescale the parent window, or undock the specific window.

This is why any sort of Defense you get is a Good thing. Almost all attacks are both typed and vectored/positional. So seeing pure Psi or Pure Toxic attacks is rare. And even if you don't have any Toxic or Psi Defense, you'll still be covered (somewhat) by your positional Defenses. As they should ALSO be flagged Melee/Ranged/AoE. And even if they're not GREAT Defense numbers, they're still better than NONE.

Godless heathen!