Fulmens

55,908 is my minimum bid for a recipe I'm going to actually craft. I consider it a mark of respect.

I'm away from the game until about Sunday night... send me a tell if you still need help.

OK. Burnt through the billion, plus a little. I'm shut down... for now.

I have only one promised transaction still to do (Sidhe-Bane.)

Everyone else, thanks for playing!

I was even more of an A** Clown... I couldn't even get into the SG right.

Wasn't there a Force Field tank who'd run in with Personal Force Field on?

... Nobody flips bonesnaps.

Someone with only 1,500 inf to bid hasn't figured the markets out yet. That's my guess.

It could be a signed number (I don't know why)... anyway, the last bit is a mystery.

Make sure to use a different level 53 every time you get another 2 billion. The bids will stack and you will be unable to collect them wtihout losing all the extras.

If this ever comes up, I'm putting in bids for a billion each, because that way I don't have to empty myself out before collecting a bid.

Woulda been 10% off what I paid for everything involved. Then I noticed some major practical problems....

Miracles [redside] cost around 100M raw and 120-140M crafted. Chances are a 90M crafted sale is not going to make it to the intended target.

Just as an example.

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Just cause I used exclamation points don't mean I'm crying...and name calling for bringing up a pretty serious bug (IMO) sounds like a overreaction :P

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"Pretty serious bug" to me is something like "every time I go anywhere near the black market on Victory, I get mapserved. "

SERIOUS BUGS STOP PEOPLE FROM PLAYING ENTIRELY.

kthxbai.

If I recall, someone on these forums claimed to be a casual player who was having trouble purpling out their actual warshade. It didn't start with BaB...

I dunno, if you're not at cap they'd give you 2.4%. Yea, expensive though.

Is it worth /bugging it 14 hours later?

There was a group of A** Clowns in the early days with various ideas... a Tank who didn't take point and used the Medicine Pool, explaining "I'm a healer"... a Scrapper with no enhancements- just used inspirations. They did Positron at level 10 and completed it- they had friends standing outside holding 20 Awakens each.

I had an A** Clown wannabe called "Hockey Night" (this was during the hockey strike)- his thing was that he'd charge in waving a sword, throw it down and start beating people with his fists.

If I recall, a pool power attack chain approaches mediocrity as long as you stay away from Flurry.

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And with common salvage so high, I can't even craft them for profit.


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BWA HA HAH
.... err, I'm sorry. That was very rude of me.

I surely meant "save a couple of slots for low bids on salvage and put sellers in the other 15-20."

People have been, with a straight face, paying 300K for level 35 and 40 generic IO's for the last few months. Rech reduction, endmod, acc, dam, that I've personally made money on.

I still get my salvage for 25K or less- usually 10K or so, but I've gotten sloppy, because I still make SO MUCH MONEY even if I overpay for salvage.

I can see I have a considerable set of work to do before I buy the Two. Billion. Inf. Miracle.

If they're on the same server, custom SG (As mentioned).

If different servers... well, you can make sure there's only one for sale, put it up at too high a price, and buy it from yourself. You lose 10% of the overly-high price, though.

Situation: Two level-pacted characters, one doing a Katie TF and the other logged off. They hadn't been played for a long time (a week or so) so they had full Patrol XP bars.

We end up fighting Mary with several people at level 32 or 33, and only 6 people on the team. There is considerable death as a result.

I would have debt, go to the hospital, zone back and ... have patrol XP.

Was I taking my wife's patrol XP?

I broke 4.5 billion destroyed today. RAR.

Don't underestimate Shiver. If the alpha doesn't kill you, throwing out Shiver against +2s gives you roughly twice as long to live. So it's the equivalent of 50% Damage Resist.

I consider a low bid to be "anything less than the crafting cost". I personally bid a minimum of 55K as a sort of "Thank you for posting", no matter if the last five COMBINED are under 55K.

I'm not made of money, but sheesh, you only have 90-something slots and one rare salvage is a million inf, pretty much. I can afford a twentieth of that.

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The ~3% defense may not seem like much, but it is THE BEST defense enhance per slot you can get in the entire game.

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Today's nitpick is brought to you by the letters S and D, and the number 3.0 .

Steadfast Res/Def gives 3% to all three types for one slot.

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Its darkly ironic that the same people who hate farmers and marketeers are the same people who want cheap purples.


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I don't like being on farm teams. I don't like being lied to by people filling farm teams. (It's happened.) I don't like playing with PL'd incompetents (or any incompetents, really.) So I guess I'm an anti-farmer.

I don't care how expensive purples get. Perhaps your generalizations need qualifiers?

If I was going to farm something I might do the following:

1. Play some AE missions- real ones with story, that I might like. Rate them. Send tells to my friends with the good ones.

2. Pick a category of midlevel common salvage: tech or arcane. Do this till I have around 500 tickets.

3. Create 30 of that. Store at Wents.
4. Create another 30 of that. Store at Wents.
I should have about 10 of each item of salvage. Put them up for sale at 55K each.

5. Wait a day.

6. Pull what didn't sell, eating the 5% fee, sell for 1.

7. Repeat.

Player99, when you make up your new chain: look at putting Havoc Punch into it. If your numbers are correct it's 70% more DPA than Charged Bolt.

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Just playing the game to fifty does NOT guarentee you millions of inf. I have 2 50s (blueside) and neither has more than 50M inf. I have one lower level (40 if memory serves, also blueside) who has over 70M.

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So, not only do all of your examples have "millions", they, in fact, have TENS of millions.
When you can do a cut-rate IO job on a toon for around 5 million and actually get decent set bonuses for under 30 million, 50 million is decent cash.

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This has come up repeatedly and I do regret that particular turn of phrase.

I'll re-phrase it this way:

Just playing to fifty does not guarantee you enough inf to IO your toon with sets, Frankenslot? Perhaps, I've not done the math on that.

I apologise for the confusion this quote is likely to create, and am suprised at the life the post has taken on :/

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Frankenslotting a level 50 melee toon these days costs around 10 million inf. Maybe 15 million.

Maybe I should retry the Spine/Dark Experiment I ran in the early days of I9, where I did it on a 6 million inf budget over a weekend, and see what it costs now. (5.5 million of that was from respeccing out the SO's.)