Frostbiter

NCSoft is also a Korean company so there's additional cultural hurdles when negotiating with them. I have a friend who was an engineer for Hankook Tires thats been to Korea several times and he's told a few stories about how the business culture is very different there.

Honestly? It's all about 90% hype. Edit: With the caveats that 60hz vs 120hz is a big jump in monitor performance and a higher native resolution can support more resolutions. Then there's contrast ratio. Higher ratios have better blacks and color depth. Last is response time or how fast the pixels themselves can change color. Also, don't buy a European monitor (75/144hz) because they use a different type of electricity for their power grids than the US. Damn you once again Edison.

That's kind of a tough question. Hertz and refresh rates are pretty much the same. It's how fast your monitor can refresh the image it displays. A 60hz monitor refreshes 60x per second. FPS on the other hand it a measure of how many frames the GPU is generating per second. Higher FPS is only marginally related to refresh rates. You will still benefit from higher FPS even at 60hz because the images the monitor actually displays will be smoother and less choppy even though your monitor will never show more than 60 of those frames in a second. So hertz is kind of a cap on frame counts itself but higher FPS results in better blended images. The most common issue with this is screen tearing, or the monitor displaying two pieces of a frame on the same screen. I probably didn't explain that well. 😞

Good to know. I'm not entirely up to date on all the new (re: later than 2010) monitor technology. I admit my computer is just hooked up to my 4K tv that I didn't even realize was 4K until I got it out of the box. 😅

I'll admit some of the block leads in CO are charming, especially the Booms and Freems but the wire-frames and ground patches are immersion breaking to me. That and they seem like a work-around for the block systems limitations making twitch reflex blocking too difficult to pull off without them. I get enough of that stuff in ESO and I dislike it there too.

Just a quick look but: https://www.newegg.com/p/N82E16824025119?&quicklink=true https://www.newegg.com/lg-34ub88-p-34-uw-qhd/p/N82E16824025430 If you're looking for a 120hz one then the price pretty much doubles.

I think this may be the patch that adds 30% more beef to the hotdogs in Brickstown. There have been complaints.

Flambeaux has some good ones. She just wants to be loved. Why won't we love her?

Thanks for the offer but they aren't that expensive on the AH. I can always cash in one of my 4 prophecies from last night if I need to. 😄

My favorite is calling the contact in front of a mission door you just finished and the next one is behind the same door. 😄 Last night the game was being really generous to me with rare salvage. I think I got 5 in 90 minutes which is unheard of for me.

Grow a sense of humor.

Technically its NERF that's trademarked. It's an acronym for non expanding recreational foam.

Nerf Wednesdays!

I still level all my characters by hand so to speak but I find myself only leveling the ones I really like to 50. I have quite a few abandoned in the 20-30 range because they got boring or the powerset/character concept just wasn't clicking anymore. I have a bunch in the 10-15 range waiting on their day in the sun to see how far I make it with them. I have somewhere around 400 hrs on my main (Frostbiter) on HC and had some 2500 on him back on Live. I tend to stick with the ones I really like for my playtime.

A 144hz monitor should handle upscaling much better. As Seigmoraig said above, the higher refresh rate will be much better for modern gaming.

Both of those look good. I'd lean towards the second one but I'm not familiar with either brand. Both monitors are native 1080p and 75hz so they won't do as well if you plan on any 4k gaming, just fyi.

3.141592. YW.

I have to 3rd a Fire/Fire Blaster as a duo partner. It'd be pure hell on wheels.

A noob is someone who hasn't learned the game. A newb is someone new to it. I like to keep to the distinction. 😄

I've noticed it too. Enemies not always going back to the spawn point after beating you down. I wonder if the AI behavior was modified when they tinkered with it, kind of how like mobs run halfway around the world to get out of a patch power now.

Not in this day and age. This is the internet after all.

That's why I disable them for the badge progress on Aloof and the others. ;)

Not to disagree with you Six Six but Ice/Ice gets 3 single target holds, which is enough to lock down EBs and AVs when they don't have mezz immunity. The combo shines as a boss killer.

Great responses so far. I do kind of feel like I need to reassure everyone that I don't die all that often these days. 😛 I do see people not leveraging their Inspirations enough though. I keep a full tray myself but I keep one or two slots open and just pop them as they drop. It makes running anything a bit easier and you can exchange and swap out lower tier ones you're holding for larger ones. Pop those pills people!

You can already craft pistols, bats and a few others as temp powers from recipes. Some of them are even mediocre! Edit: apparently there's also a back-up radio that summons either Arachnos or PPD.