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It only happens after a few hours of being on, I've never been in safe mode longer then a scan took. I can leave my computer on in safe mode overnight with a notepad file open and see. No, I have no macro software on my computer. I don't use MS Office or VisualStudio... I keep very few things...

All those windows patches with the innocuous wording "could allow someone to take over your computer if etc" is the "how" in most targeted cases. OSes have vulnerabilities. Funny you should mention a ridiculous amount of trouble. The input loop that goes off is typed very slowly, including...

No, I have less then a dozen things installed... I uninstall things I don't use. But viruses can hide in files. I can spend a couple of hours reformatting and not erase any of my personal files... but the odds are pretty good I'd just be reinfected by them, since this thing is obviously...

Since viruses can hide in nearly anything, especially if you don't know which virus you're looking for, that would mean I couldn't necessarily trust any files I tried to save, some of which are irreplaceable. So while a complete reformat without knowing the actual virus would fix the problem...

I don't mean on Enworld. I mean the virus literally has an input loop of my posts in them and types them. So if I'm in, say, a text editor program working on document, suddenly it'll start typing something I posted on Enworld. And that is the key bit, 95% of the text is Enworld posts I made, so...

Recently someone apparently took issue with my posts on Enworld because they, somehow, installed some kind of virus on my computer that every few hours retypes my posts. As you can imagine, with the random inputs, mouse movements, clicking, typing, etc., it makes the computer unusable. I'd...

Wow, average =! minimum. You seriously need to let that go, that wasn't what the designers did. 4e combat is heavily statistical.... there is a huge difference here you're just not acknowledging. It doesn't matter if PCs are more powerful. The average party is irrelevant. The worst party is all...

That would matter... if the game had been designed with a maximum power level in mind. It wasn't, just a minimum, a minimum before class/feature/PP/ED/power bonuses. So the argument that it can be optimized around is null: the minimum is designed so that all parties achieve it, even without...

No, I'm OK with that. I only really care about RAW and will cheerfully play by it, regardless. It doesn't hurt that I do, on occasion, get paid to DM 4e and when people pay money they kind of expect the game to be played by the actual rules. Why keep track of a bunch of different rules for...

Old Weapon Focus was "attacks with a weapon." Weapliments counted then (via Official FAQ, no less), they count now. RAW is clear on that. And no, it isn't debatable (at least, not by RAW, which is frankly all I care about). Making an RBA against each target is the only requirement. That's it...

See latter comment, source is outdated.

Look up the "Marked" condition. All it does is -2. You've quoted the Fighter punishment mechanic. Where in there does it say the creature gets Marked? It doesn't: it says it somewhere else, because the Fighter Marking mechanic and his mechanic for punishing the mark are separate, distinct...

...No.. that isn't how the rules work. See the sequence for multi-attacks. It is explicit. Pick power, pick targets, roll to hit, see if you hit, do damage, apply effects, step 6: go back to step 3 if there is more then one target, repeat. Reaction rules: after an attack is over, even if that...

Um, those are the normal rules. Attack sequence and the timing of reacting to attacks are both explicit rules. @OP: Have a power that is an RBA (Eldrtich Bolt, Divine Bolts+Power of Skill, etc) not based on Dex. Dump dex. Make a standard RBA against your allies at a huge penalty (no...

Bracers of Mental Might allow you to use Wis/Int/Cha for a Str-based attack once per encounter.

Not really. A Conscious Creature affected by a power knows what a power does. Swordmages and Paladins Mark with a Power whose punishment mechanic is part of the power. Fighters, Battlemind, and Wardens Mark with something unrelated to their punishment mechanic, and because it is not part of...

"Average PC" is an irrelevant concept. You're trying to pin down the minimum. Devs started out with wanting a certain number of rounds per combat per encounter difficulty level and worked backwards, not forwards. The minimum hit% and the way damage on PC powers scales is the result, not the...

You're wrong. Marking by a Swordmage is tied into their punishment mechanic, so... yeah, monsters do know, by RAW. They do not know for Fighters, Battleminds, and Wardens. The RAW is that creatures know the effects and details of all conditions and powers used on them.

The above is why Lightning Rush is a non-option for Battleminds, LR is the thing that actually makes them effective defenders.

It doesn't compensate. Math. Welcome to do it yourself. Have fun. For the record your conclusion will be that the increase in DPE (damage per encounter) from more encounter powers neatly compensates for the way monster HP scales, assuming you do the math competently and assume minimum bench...