roleki

Relax, this is what the Electoral College is for.

I used to get mad about people opening presents and abandoning the spawns, but then I realized that people racing around gathering shit they don't need and giving zero fucks about the impact of their activities on others is the perfect representation of the season. So carry on, 'heroes.'

Not a 'beginner' but no matter how badly I've incapacitated myself, I can still drive my Claws/WP Scrapper in a productive manner. I imagine the simplicity and survivability would translate to a clear-minded sort who is just figuring out what's going on around them.

But it's a state of mind.

Well, whomever did the dirty work, I salute them.

Am I crazy, or was there a time when NPC vendors only listed the names of DOs and SOs, and you had to infer from the color what attributes they actually enhanced?

Thank you. I know they felt they had to match other blast sets for performative animations, but every time my character starts winging the Pistols around like a moron I silently hope I accidentally shoot myself and put an end to it.

Actually, with the way Scourge works, your best contribution is to work out of your secondary to begin with, then start finishing off mobs.

Mids is a great tool for laying things out visually, and it is invaluable at that... but their math, Oooh, says here, the blaster does 25x as much damage! Except, in the game the Corruptor is doing 45% -Res and after the first touch, every other tic is Scourging at that 45% -Res, and oh what's that over in the secondary? It's a bonus nuke! Plus, whatever debuffs the Corruptor has applied are making everyone else's attacks hit harder. I used to be pretty big on Fire/X Blasters, until I started rolling Fire/X Corruptors.

Ice/TA Controller. All the slows in one place.

If I were the devs, I would increase the duration to 24 hours, but on a 108 hour recharge, so we all blow our brains out trying to get perma-Fade.

If there's a build you want ideas on, chances are @JJDrakken has done a lot of the legwork in their megathread in the general Archetypes forum. I'm almost certain I have a Grav/Dark but I'll be damned if I can find it.

Hey now, they're getting less-illicit every day. We're probably only 100 years from them being 100% street licit.

"All your life you live so close to the truth, it becomes a permanent blur in the corner of your eye, and when something nudges it into outline, it is like being ambushed by a grotesque."

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"BE... SURE... TO DRINK... YOUR... OVALTINE?"

True, look what they did to Dr's Bausch + Lomb.

LMAO, that is EXACTLY how we became an MSP in the first place. We were a software company that served a VERY specific industry, and had our stuff locked-in sufficient enough that nothing ever went wrong, so they started sending us out on software support calls to evaluate client environments and draw up remediation plans, which led to us contracting out to implement those remediation plans. Yadda yadda yadda, within 24 months the three IT guys were responsible for 80% of the revenue in a 25-person company. And within 5 years, we were sold off to a bunch of hillbillies who raised capital by cornering the market in podunk towns, then using that cash to buy the MSP in the next biggest town, and so on until they got to us. They ran the place like it was Spacely Sprockets and we were all Jetson; that's the job that I was going to give two weeks notice to, but on the night before that meeting I found out CoH was back so I just quit outright instead. Sorry for hijacking this fancy Help thread, but obviously, I still need help.

Aw, nah. I mean, it used to suck quite a bit, but I'm in higher ed now, which is the exact opposite of all that crap.

He was one of those guys who bought a copy of Compute! magazine once and that put him on par with any IT guy. Nice enough guy, but brimming with unwarranted confidence in many subjects. Little side story... so I get down there and it's the Friday before Halloween weekend, so everyone in the office is in Office Halloween costumes, like, one cluster was dressed up like all the named characters from Wizard of Oz. Everyone was in costume, even the shipping dock people, everyone. I go into a meeting room with the CFO who caused the incident (and blamed his getting phished on the SonicWall I sold them) and the owner of the company, who I had never met to that point, all I knew is he was from Indiana and was the brother of the guy who owned OUR company. So the owner guy is wearing a polyester shirt that's open at the chest with thick gold chains, bigass gold rings on every finger, polyester pants, snakeskin boots and yellowed sunglasses IN the meeting room where I am telling him what I need to do to literally save his business that weekend. I finish up my spiel, and we all stand up. He crosses the room, swings his arm towards me and kind of awkwardly pats the side of my face/head. In a thick Goomba accent, he says "This guy! I like this guy! You need anything when you're down here, and I mean ANYTHING, you tell Mike, and Mike gets it done." HE was Mike. I start laughing and I say, what is that, is that Goodfellas? Suddenly his face goes dead still "What the fuck are you talking about, fucking Goodfellas?" And he kind of shakes his head at me and stalks out. Apparently, he wasn't dressed as a gangster for Halloween, that's just the way Mike (an expatriate Hoosier living in Texas) goes around every day of his life.

Lmao, no, it was MSP work; I flew down Thursday night, got to work Friday AM, didnt stop until 2 hours before my plane left Sunday night. Not only restored the entire business, also unboxed, configured and installed a new VoiP system we were scheduled to install the next month anyway. Missed Halloween with my kids, ate vending machine food the whole time, my connecting flight was canceled so I wound up staying in Atlanta without any luggage, got back Monday night. My reward: if you get your ticket queue cleaned, you can stay home Tuesday. Unless your name is on the letterhead, MSP work is fucking awful. It's great experience (I guarantee I've unfucked more domains than most domain admins have laid eyes on in their lifetime) but it's soul-crushing work that will leave every orifice prolapsed if you don't find your way out.

Not laughing because of the situation, laughing because this happened to one of my clients in TX, the CFO opened a 'resume' and all of the sudden everything was encrypted. Had to fly down there with 11TB of cold storage spares and diff it out. Never getting those 72 hours back.

Not a problem; I should say, though, that while the build did/does perfectly fine in Fire farms, I usually just do S/L farms with it on account the P4 aggro changes really expose the ranged def weakness, and ranged Fire attacks suck more than ranged S/L attacks.

I can't export out of Mids at the moment, but, give this a look. Melee Def is just a smidge over 45, and S/L/Fire resistances are all at 90% - this took some +5ing here and there, but it's not egregious. Only change I am thinking of making involves dropping a couple Power Transfer procs in place of Synapse and one or two PerfShitfs; the way aggro works now, I end up sometimes taking heavy ranged damage that necessitates actual HEALING on occasion. Since my endurance bar never moves, I probably could get away with a few less PerfShifts. ELTHERM - Brute SJvsSoS (Radiation Melee).mxd