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Yeah.. IIRC, the stuff I mentioned is modified in Balance.txt. It's the option that controls which level is required for entry into a given level. Just change all of them to 1 and viola! you're in Niob with a level 1character.

Ah.. I see.. I did not know their relation. But it's bout damn time they got some public attention! Ah yes.. Porte, I believe you're right. That's the one..

Truth be told, there's an option in one of the text files that dictates the minimum level for entering each difficulty. You can simply change the numbers to 1 and you would wind up having the same general effect. A level 1 character in Niobium... But as you found out already there IS method to the madness of why they set minimum levels in each difficulty range. Truth be told, I haven't tried this particular setup, but I somehow doubt you could ever kill anything unless you maybe turned off ALL damage being dealt by the enemies you face. It'd be like trying to stab a guy in a suit of chain mail armor with a butter knife - you're just not going to do much damage.

Welp... I'm necroposting here because my MS Comfort Optical Mouse 3000 started flaking out on me and I felt it was time for a replacement. I looked around to see what was available - and I could have found another 3000 but I felt adventurous.. So while perusing the weekly Fried ad (Fry's Electronics) page, I saw a sale item for a Cooler Master Storm Recon rodent. Only $20 USD. So I did a bit of research - and the reviews were fairly glowing. So I've taken the dive and gotten myself one. On the plus side, this mouse has a few extra buttons - all of which are programmable. On the sucky side, it isn't the MS COM 3000. Meaning the side button no longer does the Magnifier feature found in Windows 7. Aside from the looks that sort of reminds me of a recent vintage Batmobile, this is a gaming mouse that has a nifty trick - you can change the DPI settings on the fly by pressing the buttons directly behind the scroll wheel. This also changes the glow in the dark feature of the mouse from Red, to Green to Blue to Off, depending on the setting you choose - as seen here... These colors can be changed as well using the Recon utility which strangely enough, is NOT included on a CD in the box. You have to grab it from Cooler Master's web page - which oddly enough does NOT feature this budget mouse on any of their pages. You have to search for it in order to find it. I'll post more later when I've had a chance to check things out a bit more.

Oh.. and one more thing... Found this on YouTube... Very interesting lyrics - stuff that was only partly explored during the trailer version of Ruby's theme... Gotta say - This Jeff Williams guy they got writing the score AND Casey Williams (assuming relation) are musical geniuses... There are so many variations on the Red Like Roses theme now, it's hard to keep track of them.

While it's true that EP (or one of the other level 1 General skills) is needed to get to Bargaining, EP is also good on it's own - it increases you chances of finding better goodies in crates and bins and such as well as increases the odds of getting set items, uniques and legendaries and other desirable goodies from quest givers.

I'm sure the abruptness of Weiss' change likely had to do with the need to move the story along quickly. Keeping that sort of animosity might have had it's amusement value but that kind of friction does get old. Yah.. I gotta love ol' Oz.. I still have a feeling there's more to that comment than meets the eye - so far, anyhow. Just the way the story has been moving so far - Monty doesn't seem to have his characters saying stuff that isn't necessary. Can't really do that given the length of most of the episodes thus far. Also like the professor what's his name - Pulled Pork... The big guy who talked to Weiss...

It's Thursday... And you guessed it.. it's RWBY day! http://roosterteeth.com/archive/?id=8109 Grr.. And at the stroke of 5pm... roosterteeth.com is seriously lagging.. Probably as the legion of fans are clustering to be the first on their block to watch the just released episode.. They really, really need bigger pipes..! FINALLY got to see the episode at like 9:30 PM... I dunno bout Weiss.. Is it just me, or did that seem to be a weee bit too easy? I mean, I've known a few people like Weiss in my day and I'm here to tell you, a leopard doesn't change his spots. Certainly not that easily, and certainly not that quickly. Also gotta wonder where Weiss got that coffee so quickly. And so late at night. As a side note... Ospin's admission of making "more mistakes than any man woman or child" caught my attention.. Wondering exactly why he would say something like that. Getting the feeling there's more to it than just something to placate Ruby. I'm sure we'll find out soon enough... MORE Animation mistakes... At the very end, after Weiss gives Ruby her coffee, and goes off - presumably to the head - Ruby has a mug full of coffee in hand and there's a second empty mug on the bed. During the last few seconds, as Ruby turns back onto her stomach, both the full mug and the empty mug vanish into thin air to be replaced by a pen in Ruby's hand.

You should be able to just hit the quote button, and then add your text at the very bottom. Um.. You could use the arrow keys to move the cursor down. Or you can use the scroll wheel on your mouse to get to the bottom and simply click. This moves the cursor to the bottom...

Flame Cheese? ROFL! Gotta ask... How ever did you come up with that one?

I recently came across this while watching some videos for game currency... It's kind of soft metal - a retro sort of thing you might have heard from REO Speedwagon way back in the 80's... The only bummer about this video - the female lead in the story keeps turning into dust and vanishing on our poor hero... Then again, this song is about heartbreak... It's pretty good tho...

Good! Be sure to socket some Regen Per Hit jewelry too.. It will keep Pelting Strikes spammable.. It doesn't really NEED to be paired with any other CA - it does it's job well enough on it's own - provided you've got a good sharp sword (or swords or hammer(s) or whatever if you're dual wielding). The key is to keep the regen low so you can hit the enemy repeatedly until they are DEAD and there's no one left in the area to fight.

I see a MAJOR problem.. It's not only your Buff CAs that are overfed, it's your other ones as well... First off, you can only get your CA to just so high (level 19 IIRC) without feeding points to the FOCUS skill that CA belongs to. If you look at the focus skill description (any one of them) it will give you the highest level you can have your CA without penalties. Looking at what you've said - you've got 34 runes eaten and your skill level is only 18.8... Keep in mind, without penalties - each rune in Bronze or Silver should give you 1 full point for that CA. In Gold, it should give you 2 points per rune eaten, in Platinum, it should be 4 pts per rune and in Niobium, it's 6 points per rune. But that's ONLY going to work if you have the right Focus skill and are pumping points into it regularly. At this point, eating more runes is pretty much going to be a futile exercise until you get the focus skill AND put points into that. You've got one focus already - and if you notice - the Battle Stance nerf isn't quite as bad as the other buffs/skills. Keep adding points to that focus as well.

In that case.. Shadow Warrior springs to mind since 2 of his Aspect Lores are Tactics - which is already off limits...

First off.. Welcome to DarkMatters..! Secondly.... You almost HAVE to do some farming of mobs and bosses and such if you want set items, legendary or uniques. Those NEVER show up in the market unless you've sold it to them - or you get that weird glitch that happens like once in a bazillion years. And more often than not, sets, uniques and legendary weapons/armor are better than the stuff you or your shopper might find in the market. Set items when you have enough of them will give you set bonuses that you won't get with market items. That said, going to the market isn't all that bad to do. You will find some essential items - like Regen per Hit (RpH) modded jewelry more frequently there than you would normally find picking up from dropped loot. Personally... I usually do make sure I have Enhanced Perception whenever/wherever it's available. I will also take Bargaining if possible. I find shopping networks have flaws. More often than not, the shopper will not be the same class as you - and this makes the shopper's task all that much more difficult. Let's say you've got a Shadow Warrior - who can't bargain to save his life. So you bring up a Seraphim shopper to find goodies for him. MOST of the stuff the Seraphim finds in the market will be for... the Seraphim. So the Seraphim will have to work triple time shopping to find just ONE item for the Shadow Warrior. And some Shadow Warrior items (such as 2 handed Axes and Hammers) are hard to find to begin with. Might as well just take the Shadow Warrior to the merchants and have him find what he needs directly. Yes, he will have to pay thru the nose for what he buys, but you don't have a lot of options. The same sort of thing goes for the Dryad - you rarely, if ever see blowpipes in the market when you're playing a Dryad, let alone another class. FWIW, I just go play the game, and more often than not, I get what I need from drops in the field, from quest rewards AND from the market. All in all, I do think it's possible to make it through the game in Niob without having to do a lot of farming.

That would be "normal" - its defined as one of Murphy's Laws.. I think it's the 2nd one.. Any device that is malfunctioning will suddenly start working properly whenever the mechanic/repairman is either observing the device or is on his way to repair said device. The corollary also states: The device will resume malfunctioning as soon as the repairman/mechanic has been dismissed and/or is no longer observing the device.

Ok.. What about other Lores - aspect or weapon lores? (I.e. sword weapons or hafted weapons) All of those add damage as well...

Well.. You could do that.. but who knows when that will be released... It is being tested in beta at the moment so it won't be too long before 150 is released. Of course, there's no guarantee that it will be the final version either. 140 was supposed to be the end of the road and yet, there were enough things found and such that warranted a v150. At any rate, I'm not entirely sure the new version will fix or change the status of those already completed quests. The key is to NOT remove the CM Patch once you've started using it. It does make changes to how some things are listed in the files and that CAN cause previously successful quest completions to become fails.

You can always check the roadmap... it's posted on their bug reporting site.

Oh.. DOH! I forgot to mention the coup de grace in all of this mess. My cell phone got whacky. It would make calls without problems - but the phone book/contact list got wiped out. Or so I thought. Fortunately my info was OK - it's just the phone that said I couldn't have any contacts stored on the SIM chip. Put the SIM into another phone and my numbers were still there. BIG major sigh of relief.. Mercury must be in retrograde... (as a friend of mine who was heavy into astrology would say)...

Look out! Chattius is going Aztec on us! Back in the day, the Aztecs would put spicy chilies in their chocolate.

Robb... You DID look at the calendar... Right? Friday the 13th... But I can feel your pain - tho my string of bad luck started on the 12th. My power supply in my PC decided to frizzle and fry. Right when I was in the middle of doing something - of course... So I grab my tablet and figure I can at least watch RWBY - which I managed to after several restarts. Bleeping tablets..! And I thought that was the worst it could do.. Nope. It decided to pack itself in while I was trying to sort something else out. It turned itself off and refused to come back to life after a reboot. DOH! So there I as without anything to access the internet with for a day and a half. At least I managed to get those two items sorted out... OK.. In light of what you said - my problems don't seem to be that serious. But look at it this way - it could have been worse. MUCH worse.

No.. That would require serious - and I mean serious coding work that would be pretty much impossible to pull off. There are character editors out there you can use to do this sort of thing - but as always when dealing with stuff like this - be sure to have a good backup!

Yeah.. I know.. Been telling people to check it out. But... <shrugs> They don't seem to grok it.. Good catch.. I watched it on my craptastic tablet.. My bleeping PSU decided to let out the sacred blue smoke and called it quits about an hour or so before it was released. Good thing Roosterteeth have the video setup so Android users (and presumably iOS users) can view it without Flash being installed. At any rate... I'll have to watch that episode again now that I've got that fixed.

You left out ONE crucial factor in why the mist is the most despised.. You have to fight the bugger 3 times on the Light side and 2 times on the Dark. Other bosses are bad enough when you have to only face them once, but this one you've got to do multiple times. With a High Elf spamming Blazing Tempest it's not too bad, (Yes, I know, the ice shards will do damage but somewhat less as the baddies are armored against ice damage)... Ditto for a Dryad with a blowgun. But it's still not AS good as the HE has it with BT... If you want a boss that's the biggest PITA to fight - that would be the Spider Queen from the CM Patch. The only class I've managed to get thru her lair mostly unscathed was a Shadow Warrior who was fully cloaked and had the biggest 2H hammer/axe I could find. The boss in this case will heal.. frequently.. but only if she sees you. Fully cloaked you can walk right up to her and unleash a torrent of blows and she doesn't even have a chance to react.