Fulmens

There are two explanations for missing 50% of the time. Either the OP is fighting a lot of Spectrals or other acc-debuffing enemies, or they're indulging in rhetoric.

Thought experiment time: Castle reads this post and says "You're right! Tanks should do just as much damage as Scrappers!"

... what kinda idiot would play a Scrapper when they could get the same damage and 200% the survivability?

(Fun factoid: Back in issue 4 someone did speed tests, INV/SS tank vs. MA/INV scrapper at L40 on a warhulk/fake nem pair. If I remember correctly it was very close to a tie. Scrappers have gotten more damage and faster attacks since then, but still: 80-90% of scrapper damage is hardly anything to cry about, especially since tanks are something like twice as hard to kill as a comparable scrapper. )

I'm going to try this one more time, because the OP quoted [and misunderstood] my post.

The specific numbers may be off on this, but you didn't just get an "apoc dmg recipe".
You had to drop, let's say 1500 badguys to get that apoc. At 3000 inf each, minimum, that's 4.5 million inf. Probably more like 6 million because lieuts and bosses give disproportionate inf.

You also got, making up a number, 300 generic recipes worth 100K each at the store, so 30 million inf. You've also gotten a bunch of uncommon recipes, which we will ignore. Either they generate trivial inf or they are sold at Wents and merely move inf around, instead of creating it.

The GAME gave you that money, so you've created 36 million inf that didn't exist before. (Exact numbers are unimportant. I'm going to use 36 million and if it turns to be something else, you can cut and paste YOUR OWN DAMN SELF. ) And an Apoc: Damage.

Now if we assume that, roughly, there's as much inf going into the system as coming out, the process of selling that Apoc: Damage (and everything else you sell at Wents) will get rid of 36 million inf. So the Apoc: Damage (and everything else) would sell for 360 million inf, because only 10% of that gets destroyed and the rest goes to you, and you buy something that someone ELSE farmed up and the money goes around 10 times before it goes away. "36 million" farmed is actually "360 million" spent.

Where's the money coming from? THE SAME F'N PLACE THE APOC CAME FROM. You get one purple with every 36 million cash, or to think of it another way you get 36 million cash with every purple.

Why does an Apoc cost more than 360 million ? Because a Soulbound Allegiance costs less.

If you do not understand this explanation, please quote the specific part you don't understand. Please do not repeat your same exact point, because that doesn't help communication. I understand your point and I think it's wrong. You need to explain which of my points you think is wrong:

1) You get inf the same way you get recipes
2) People get to spend ten times as much inf as farmers create
3) other.

It also means less customers.

I'm going to tell you how to make your first half-million. This isn't a good way to make inf in large quantities but it will mean that you never have to scrape and beg to get Single Origin enhancements.

First, find an Auction House- Wents heroside, Black Market villainside. Assuming you start with a handful of inf, go through the common salvage until you find high level salvage with 0 bids. Bid really really low, like 20 each, on stacks of 10. Do this until your salvage is full. Go to a store (quartermaster or... what are those guys in red and white called? I don't even remember) and sell that salvage for 250 inf each. You should now have, if you're level 7 or so, 7,500 inf or so.

Go back to the Auction House. Buy another round of salvage, and start looking for level 38+ "yellow" set recipes, as shown on this page. Again, you're looking for recipes with a lot for sale [10+] and no bids. You can sell these to a store for 100 inf per level per recipe, and you can probably buy them for 101 or 501 or 1001 each. So if you sell five recipes that you bought for 500, and you sell them for 4000 each, that's 3500*5 or 17,500 inf. Between that and the salvage you're making around 25,000 inf per run. If you can hold more recipes you make more inf.

This is boring as hell. It's also a terrible way to make inf- you can make a thousand times more inf, no exaggeration. If you are interested in how, the market forum is full of friendly advice and guides. But you can do it starting from zero, and it's impossible to lose money at it. So do it till you get half a million inf, then STOP.

Two points.
1) Is this a correct interpretation of your position? "Recipes are being deleted now because they're not worth selling, so we're going to add a source of supply and somehow they WILL be worth selling." If that's not right, explain to me how I'm misinterpreting it.
2) Every time you craft a level 50 Crushing Impact you destroy 490,000 inf or thereabouts. If you get rid of thirty, level 50, crafted IO's when you respec, and I know that's a high number, you've destroyed 15 million inf in crafting costs. That could add up, in theory. It's at least a start at sinking inf.

I'm perfectly comfortable with that amount of mitigation (got two Fire/ice blasters), but it might be a little scanty for some people. Blasters, well, they have short fights either way.

... there are over a dozen complete sets of Focused Smite available on either side right now. Perhaps you should rephrase?

True, in the scientific sense; we don't have a control MMO so we can sell currency in one but not the other.

However, the absence of a rigorous proof does not render us intellectually defenseless; we can still form reasonable postulates and attack and defend them. This may prove one point or another, in the sense of "prove" that a court of law uses.

( I find "You can't prove it" is usually the argument of someone who has no other defenses . )

Likewise, I find reducing RMT to zero to be a very rigorous definition of success. If we cut RMT trading by 90% from its peak [whatever and whenever that was; I have no measurements of it] I would call that beating the spammers.

Personally, I've kept one of my friends from buying inf from RMT spammers; I consider that to be a small but measurable contribution to quality of life in this game.