Roderick

Badgers. They want to get Field Crafter, and they want it now, and they have to craft hundreds of IO to do it. That means that they have to find somewhere to store them, delete them, or price them to sell now.

Depending on how much of a markup I can make off them, I tend to do a mix of all three.

You didn't even read my post, did you?

MAKE THEM LIKE THE RULARUU WEAPONS

In other words, any one of the options I listed, not all of them.

Yes, two of the options would be limited to level 45+ characters. The option for raids would still exist. And "one or two other options" because I couldn't think of any other appropriate badges, except maybe the monkey badge. And as others have said, that's probably too easy. All you'd need is a level 50 friend and 20 minutes in PI while the friend AOEs monkeys, and you could have it at level 1.

My intuition tells me that a new expansion came out recently, with four new powersets and six new zones, all of which are available to new characters only, and that these new characters can't leave the new area early.

My intuition also tells me that those characters that were created on the first days of the expansion started hitting 50 in fairly large numbers a few weeks ago, and new ones are still hitting 50 every day, in larger numbers than was previously normal.

My intuition tells me that a lot of people are running midlevel content, since their new characters are too low level for endgame stuff: I see more Citadel and Manticore TFs forming than anything else on my server.

Since there's all this low-mid level content being run, and a ton of new 50s looking for purples, my intuition tells me that the laws of supply and demand suggest that purple prices will go up, much like they have every time a new set has come out.

Intuition can be based on logic, or bat **** crazy conspiracy theories. I picked logic. Which did you choose?

Never played Electric Melee or Shield Defense, huh?

Or better, both together.

1. In most MMOs, crafting is not as accessible as it is in ours. You need to have certain skills, which normally you can only pick some of rather than all, and must train up to the level needed to craft the items. Therefore, the ability to craft the item comes at a premium. While that's not true in this game, some people expect it anyways, so prices go up.

2. If there's only one available, price can be pushed up. By buying all the recipes and crafting them all, it's possible to spike prices.

3. Many people don't compare crafted vs. uncrafted prices, so aren't aware of the discrepancies.

And many other reasons.

I don't have the power, I'm doing a theoretical build that I might be following up on. So I need to know how that power works before I commit to it.

SPOILERS FOLLOW!

The results of Rikti/Rikti mating is a normal (by our standards) human. The change happens during childhood. I'm unsure if the lore states whether Rikti children are modified by an external source, or if they automatically undergo the change from human to Rikti as they age, but they do start out the same as we do. That's why, in a couple arcs, Rikti refer to normal humans as "the birth form".

Since the Lost are just Rikti that have undergone the change later in their life than "native" Rikti, they would also breed normal humans. If Rikti children automatically change as they get older, it's possible that the Children of the Lost would undergo the change as well. If Rikti need external stimuli to change from the birth form, then Lost children would as well.

OK, so how would you rather I phrase it?

My Dual Pistols/Energy blaster has never suffered any inconvenience nor reduction in performance due to redraw, and I did not have to change my playstyle in any way to accomplish it.

Does that make you happier?

You are correct, the servers must be down for a patch to go Live. Thursday downtime is for regular server maintenance. When there's a patch, we have an extra downtime.