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Finished my class quest for my sorcerer. For some reason, it's only the 3rd class quest I've completed in full (trooper and bounty hunter), despite having numerous level 55's. For some reason they just seem to get stuck on Belsavis and not making it any further. Decided to bite the bullet and start finishing them one after the other now. Agent is next, having started on Corellia and who knows, maybe my smuggler and Sith warrior will get around to it too. Having an incredibly hard time motivating myself to play my two jedi characters (consular being the most likely to make it anywhere since he's now on Hoth)

It's all liquid cooled (motherboard, cpu and gfx card). Water temperature is constant 40 degrees (room temperature is about 32-35 here in summer). I tried running the bios diagnostic screen (hitting the del key during boot) and keep an eye on motherboard and cpu temperature. Nothing seems to get above 40 degrees when it croaks. You can almost set your watch after it, like x minutes after startup. After that point however, it becomes stable again and can run for 24 hours without a hitch.

Point taken. I'll shop around a bit more Did the memtest thing btw, came up clean. Last resort before hitting the checkout button is, over the weekend, to take the pc completely apart and only stick the basic necessities back in. Leaving out various cards like soundblaster card, tv card, usb 3 expansion card, sata 3 expansion card etc. If it still acts up, it's history. if it works, then I'll have to do the painful process of testing each individual piece. Edit to add: One thing I didn't think about but need to try is to "unhook" it from the UPS and just plug it in the wall power outlet. Stranger things have happened.

So, I'm better off suffering the regular crash for a while yet?

Arghhh!.... Something in my PC is dying on me and I don't know what. I *think* it's temperature related, as it only seems to happen as part of a transition from start to working temperature. It will simply die on me and crash. Screen goes black, a second later sounds starts stuttering and then it reboots. Worse, it will happen (if timing is right) during POST too, showing memory and cpu info, then die (so I'm fairly sure it's not Windows/Driver related as HDD's haven't even been detected at that time). Not sure if there is anything in the crash dump files that is worth searching for or just toss out the innards and replace the core of the system. Damn thing is, it's 6-8 months too early for my budget for what I had in mind. I can then either go really cheap or just get a "good" system. I figured a new motherboard, cpu and memory would be a good place to start as I got all the rest in fairly good shape (PSU, case, drives, gfx card etc.). Anyone know if coolers for the previous 1156 (or however many pins) are compatible with the LGA2011 cpu size? Would love to keep my old water cooling block. My shopping list looks like this at the moment: CPU RAM (x2 for 64gb) Motherboard I can get a custom fit water block for the motherboard from EK Waterblocks. Any suggestions, ideas, improvements? Or am I wasting my money on soon to be obsolete tech?

Yeah, read about that producers road map and the follow up discussion. Apparently something along the scope of Rise of Hutt Cartel. Oh, and two new flashpoints in a not so distant future, intended to kick off a new story arc. Was getting a bit tired of hearing about dread master this and dread master that anyway (especially when not playing the operations, time zones still being the main joy killer, ops night being on Wednesdays during my normal work hours). @Hassat: I know what you are saying about grinding With 5 level 55 (and my sorcerer who is almost level 52), it took a while to get them geared in first 69's and later 72's. Lots of Oricon/Czerka weeklies and an obscene amount of HM flashpoints.

The first group of people would just end up on the ignore list. Makes sense to ignore tactics if ridiculously over leveled/over geared, but if not, it's perpetuating bad habits (like guarding healers in pve) that will come back and bite people who listen to such "advice". Had a first go at the final seeker droid mission. Didn't end so well. Only 5 minutes before server reboot did we realise that the reason we kept exploding was because you can't use any abilities while carrying the batteries for the turret/shields (wiping 3 times at 87.5%). Ah well, live and learn. Some other day when we get the time all 4 of us.

Thread getting longer than an old dwarfs beard... New thread here

Just to hit the ground running... No. It was more "we want to move away from old technology and consolidate everyone onto the same tech (early DA3 prototypes were already using Frostbite) and we really like what we've seen with DA3 at this point and are more keen on following up with that than DA2." Keeping us working on DA2XP would just delay us ramping up on Frostbite. Part of the influence of this thought process is likely how meh Awakening's sales were compared to the investment and install base. Couple that with less overall sales of DA2 and it's not hard to see that the XP held higher risks than we would necessarily want. That does make a valid point.

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Thread pruned a bit as discussion went from pointless to tasteless. Let's try to steer back to Kickstarter again?

Finally completed my first Binocular quest and got my just reward... a pair of binoculars Not sure I'm going to go through this for all my toons though. Figuring out the mechanics was half the fun, but after a bit of trial and error and paying a bit attention, we eventually worked out the various obstacles. The story ending was bad though. Not going to spoil it other than say I was disappointed. Ah well, Seeker Droid is next I think. Time to get the gang together and head to Ilum.

Games as an online service is the future.

Ned Kelly tried the crude metal armour approach. Didn't work for him. Doubt it would work for the Ukrainians other than giving a false sense of security and encourage reckless behaviour.

In some hard fights, it's the difference between win and wipe. E.g. got two "Elite" turrets pointing at you? Stun one with "Slice Droid" and your party only takes 50% of the incoming damage for the next 60 seconds. Often invaluable (and often screwed up by gung-ho players, causing the entire party to die). Shadow/Assassin tanks have a stun that doesn't even trigger combat, so the entire party can pick a fight on their terms... until above mentioned tunnel visioned individuals forget all about proper kill order (easiest to kill first, then harder etc.) and aggroes all the strongest enemies first. So yeah, crowd control is very useful and often ignored by players with no clue how to tackle group content. Almost as bad are healers screaming for tank to put guard on them... seriously, somebody need to read the tooltip and understand how threat/aggro tables work. It does absolutely nothing *useful* for a healer and is wasted as it could have been put on a dps instead. Ah well, I know several good healers, teaming up with one of them from my guild regularly.

Heh, don't get me started on companion AI (Artificial Idiocy?)... Happens regularly that companions not only break my CC as their very first action (melee tank/dps easier to micromanage), but the ranged companions will occasionally run far away and aggro sometimes very distant mobs, dragging you into a lot more fights than intended :roll: But yeah, some single purpose specs players do seem to lack a bit of perspective. A personal put peeve is marauders/sentinels who is under the delusion that rushing and jumping, constantly aggroing mobs half a map away (especially bad in CZ flashpoints) somehow makes it go faster. Guess what, it takes longer to complete when the other 3 guys have to walk the entire way at 50% speed and no, you can't kill the mobs faster single handed compared to a team of 4 pouring fire into them. Idiots.

I wonder if by mechanical keyboards is meant boards using Cherry MX keys? Got two keyboards using two different "colours" of above switches, a noisy (very gratifying "clicks" when traversed down far enough) one for home and a less noisy one for work. Not that my colleagues really appreciate it mind you. Never going back to the plastic toys again.

Even my old "Dead Space" successfully activated the physical cd key on Origin and provided me with a digital download, should my physical disk die on me some day As long as it just me provides me with a choice, I'm not too negative about the proprietary client stuff. To be honest, I sort of like that frequently updated games, like the Paradox games, gets updated regularly and automatically on Steam.

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I was a late comer to "forums". Never got registered on the Interplay forums (despite lurking for 6 months after finding them). I was mostly a usenet user at the time. When Interplay showed definite signs of going belly up, I didn't bother registering. When Obsidian opened their forums, I was a bit apprehensive, but decided what the heck and registered about two weeks or so after they opened (giving me this funny member number I got) and then went to Winterwind and a place called 'Ashford City' where another handful of the Interplay regulars had gone. In the end, I stuck with Obsidian and WW Fun trivia: No less that 4 past and present Obsidian moderators hail from there, Phosphor, Eldar, AngryKidJoe and yours truly

To be honest, mostly a ghost town these days, so not much to enforce. More an outlet for people who likes to write short novellas, artsy stuff like paint or photography etc. and looking for a place to get their stuff put up on the net in an 'e-zine' format. The forums are just a handful of diehards, discussing the pointlessness of existence (and Ice hockey, which really doesn't interest me). There used to be a lot more people after Interplay closed the forums, but a decade of entropy has left its mark.

I didn't see any thread on the front page, so I just thought I would mention, in case people are kickstarter backers and like to protect their info... Kickstarter hacked No credit card info as such leached, but a lot of data that people normally chose not to share. Worth a read and time to change passwords.

I guess I'm the one who has to bring it to you gently... you are a failure as a troll, we still like you

Weekly whinge about vendor tank gear time... I took a look at the official swtor forums, in particular KeyboardNinja's tables for mathematically optimal stat distribution based on your available point budget. Lets just say, life isn't fair. At least, for all my whinging, Juggernats/Guardians are even worse off. The gear on the other hand is tailor made for Shadows/Assassins and seem usable with very few changes (because their skills give them naturally high defense values, so the gear being way top heavy on absorption is actually a boon). Ah well, my shadow tank is now level 40 and getting there. It will be a relief actually being able to just buy and use the mods from the gear. Spent $10M on GTN to replace a number of enhancements (the junk ones full of accuracy and alacrity) and my barrel to get a way better stat distribution. Still need to boost Defense, but at least it's getting close to 20% (and shield at 40%, damage reduction at 50.5%)

Second home on the internet for some of us. A place where we can be as politically incorrect as we like when expressing how we *really* feel about some things