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Help me Upgrade Hey Basil, I just came back from a long break and I started playing my BaM again I looked on the damage range thread and it seems like everyone has really high ranges now I took a picture of my equips so its easier to see, wondering if you guys could help me upgrade (basically get the most bang for my buck) I have a budget of 50k nx or so Also I have a few questions: 1) I'm saving up for the Meister shoulder from the Red Coin shop, is it better than the empress shoulder? Or should I use the coins on the revolution glasses instead? 2) When I read the skill for Finishing Blow, it says that it has 20% PDR and 20% Boss. Is this true? Are these bonus stats included in the stat window (where it says %boss, pdr, etc.) or does it on

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Thinkpad Helix? Hi basil, My school is offering a thinkpad helix as one of the options for a laptop choice, and I was wondering in what your thoughts on it are. I know that it has not yet been released yet (or has it? I'm having trouble finding information on it) It's basically a ultra book that is also a tablet hybrid. My school is most likely giving me the most basic model, so i5 ($1500 I think) Is it really as nice as the forums say it is? Or just an overhyped hybrid?

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Help me choose a laptop Hello Basil, college bound now, and my University is offering a laptop for us There are 4 choices. 3 Thinkpads (which are free) or a MacBook Pro (for $400) I plan on using the laptop for taking notes, aim, facebook, skype, web browsing, and league of legends mainly This is the link to the laptops offered [b]MacBook Pro[/b] 2.4GHZ dual Core Intel Core i5 4GB 1333 MHZ DDR memory 500GB 5400 RPM BUILT in Web Cam 7 hour battery 13" Screen DVD+RW [b]Lenovo Thinkpad T430[/b] Intel Core i5 -3320 Processor 8 GB memory 500GB 7200 RPM 720 p High definition Built-in web cam 6 Cell battery 4.77 pounds 14.0" Screen DVD+RW Drive [b]Lenovo Thinkpad T430u[/b] Intel Core i5-3317U Processor 8GB DDR3 memory 500GB 7200 RPM 720p

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Recommend a backpack Hey basil Gonna be a second term senior in high school now, and I want a new backpack (so done with my freshmen backpack :p) I think I'm looking for a messenger bag this time, or something that goes over my shoulders, since regular backpacks keep hitting my butt and it rides put my shirt and ruins it. So can you guys recommend bags that you guys use/like, and pictures of them? Also pictures of people wearing the bag would be great also I'm mainly looking to carry 1/2 notebooks, ipad, and folder basically

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Should I recube my staff? Finally got my estaff7 to legendary, and right now its 12% Total Damage 9% Magic 30% Ingore def I think it boosted my range by approx 5k, but i'm not exactly sure if getting higher %boss would be better The only boss I can solo is Zakum, who doesn't have a lot of PDR On my staff I have a 15%ignore neb, and additional 15% from my codex Finishing Blow is supposed to have inherent 30%ignore, but I hear its not working? So basically, would more %boss be more beneficial than 90%ignore (or 60% if my skill is bugged)

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Lgt People with swim team experience Hey basil. I'm not on an official swim team, but its a club swimming and we have races sometimes. Yesterday, my coach told us that we have a race next week, and I have to swim in 3 events (Team Medly, Team freestyle, and 100 IM) I haven't much race experience- this is my second one, and the last one didn't go too well :( What i wanted to know is that when you have to swim more than one event, how do you preserve enough energy for the next one? Whenever i sprint I usually go all out, and I am completely exhasuted. There is a slight break in between each event, but I feel that it isn't enough. I think it would be fine if I was just swimming the TM and TF (I am swimming 50free for the TM and 50free for TF)

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Evan or Ice/Lightning Sorry guys, I am usually against threads like these, but I'm a bit torn between the two :P I decided to take a break from my battle mage for a few months, and play another class. At the moment, both my Evan and Ice/Lightning are level 95. In terms of gameplay, both are very fun and I don't mind either. I just wanted to know which class scales better I feel that Evan's are stupidly strong right now, and even without equips they do lots of damage. I read in a few threads that if you can fund an ice lightning they are pretty damn strong as well. I will be transfering equips over from my bam to use on whichever mage i end up choosing. can you guys give me some insight? in terms of bossing potential at around level 130-150

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google redirect virus Hey basil, I tried googling something earlier but it redirected me to a bunch of different sites I looked it up on my phone And apparently it's called google redirect virus I'm running malwarebytes right now, but the scan is taking forever I also read a lot of articles online, apparently it's hard to remove ? If anyone has experience with this thing please comment Is formatting my computer a bad idea if I can't remove it? As long as I save my documents onto a flash drive it should be fine right ?

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Submitting a ticket to Nexon Hi basil, I just found out my account was hacked yesterday, and I want to submit a ticket to Nexon about this I know there's a big chance they wont read it, but I might as well try I'm not sure which Category and Sub category I should but my ticket under. I've heard from a lot of basilers that putting it under the billing category makes it more lilely for them to read it. So yea, any thoughts? I already mentioned how I'm a loyal Nexon customer, and how much NX i have purchased already in the Details.

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Just got hacked I know there's a million threads like these everday, but yea... I just logged onto my character after a month or so of not playing (Last time i was on was a bit before halloween) I go onto my character and see that my robe, cape, glove, and shoes are missing (all my mesos are gone, but I only had like 20mil anyway) I'm not even sure how this is possible. I have never given out my account information, I don't go on suspicious sites, and I havent even been on MS so I don't think i would have done anything for someone to hack me (like the MTS exploit or something) If anyone has any info on what happened, could you enlighten me? I worked hard for my equips, really dissapointed its all gone now.

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