FourSpeed

Thanks... Of course, now I'm dabbling around with it.

Definitely something along the lines of the "Buy it NAO key" is 0.

I think you may have just created a forum avatar for me (if I may).

Actually, as I understand it, it is doing 5 "artificial sales" to make the history
look like some arbitrary pricing is "normal" for that item.

In re-reading his post (reading comprehension FTW - DOH! ) that's
not what he did (My Bad) - he was simply playing with bid numbers
rather than the last 5 history... Not sure how I misread it the first time.

So, I have no idea wth I was thinking when I said that - must be a
case of the "Mondays" or early Alzheimer's.


Ahhh well, here's hoping the rest of the week is more lucid.


Regards,
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Yes, and in fact, I find it almost as irritating as whichever "twit-du-jour"
I'm trying to ignore...

It really should be 1-click part of the left side poster name options
instead of (in addition to) the section in your profile area.

To OP.

"Painting the tape" is what you're describing.

AFAIK - there are no rules against it (this would be a Market PvP tactic),
but I'd agree with others in that:

A> It won't fool (even slightly) most of the regulars in here

B> It's unnecessary to resort to it to fool the newbs - they're already lost.

C> Single digits really don't have a big bearing on actual Supply/Demand
unless there's a wide disparity between them... ie. 400 bids, 2 for sale -
seems meaningful... 0 bids / 1400 for sale - likewise... 9 bids / 5 for sale?
Not so much.

D> Market morality in a video game is laughable. Heck, even
in the real world we have the widely accepted phrase "Caveat Emptor"
(Buyer Beware).



Regards,
4

Aion beta as well.

And, based on my experience this past Monday, in the same zone.

Bingo!

As an 85% solo (I duo the other day of the week), this is the approach I
use on my characters. Common IO's for key powers/attributes at L7, L12,
L17 and then frankslotting thereafter.

Even though powers get their key attributes maximized, I rarely have an
IO above L35 or L40 in the builds. On top of that, the toons exemplar well
and have pretty nice set bonuses to go with it. All for about 50M, total.

Obviously, these toons are all self-sustaining and rich, because 50M can
be made over the course of a few days, and any inf after that is gravy.


Now, if we could just teach that mythical "casual" gamer how to do this,
we'd have a lot of people having cake and getting to eat it too...


Regards,
4

Sure, that's true. Still, that's also the same for holds, stuns, and other status
effects, most of which, I think we'd agree are useful. If you think of drain as
another sort of status effect, then I think you're looking at it the right way.

If you want to do it most effectively, you'd *want* both. That said, SC
(with slotting) can get the recharge down into the 6-7 second range or so
(off the top of my head), so it can work well on it's own.

I frequently use it on BP Masks in Bloody Bay (where Power Sink is unavailable),
and it's quite effective there in conjunction with the other electric attacks.

Of course, with both SC and PS - the 1-2 shot is tough to beat.


Regards,
4

No. As SwellGuy mentions, you can place buy bids on non-existant items (ie. L53 Stealth IO)
to create a sort of "rainy-day" fund on a toon.

My two primary marketeers (1 red, 1 blue) do this. They have 1B in "rainy-day" bids
squirreled away, and their "operating float" is 1.5B - ~1.8B to use in their "ebil schemes".

At any given time they both have 2.5B+ on hand. Any excess above that gets
converted into an IO and put in base storage for a lowbie alt to cash-in (if need be).


Regards,
4

Fair enough - if you pay your monthly fee, you're entitled to make/play the
AT's you want.

However, that's *not* the same as credibly saying Electric is bad. It only
means that *you* don't like playing that set.

To be sure, End Drain is a very different mechanism, but I for one (and certainly
many others I've read) find it far from "completely useless" as you say.

Personally, I rather enjoy the effect, and I have a Blaster, a Corruptor and a
Defender (so far) that find the technique very helpful.

It's especially satisfying to have a totally drained (and powerless) boss be completely
at my mercy due to that effect when he'd otherwise be able to pound my toon into
a greasy smear on the pavement.

"Completely useless" ??? I think not.


Regards,
4