graystar_blaster

Originally Posted by Plasma

Yep, this is accurate. For recharge, the 8.75% is different, so that gives you a chance to get 5x10% + 8.75%, which I've done on a few characters who run 5x purple recharge sets.

Originally Posted by DarkSideLeague

Wrong. On pretty much every level. 2nd Gen ATOs were discovered due to a BUG on i23 Beta - and said bug was fixed, so you can't even get them that way. They were NEVER. Intended. To be in this issue, no matter how many of you people hoped so. The 2nd Gen ATOs are going to be in the next set of Super Packs which are slated for Late July, Early August as a BEST CASE SCENARIO.

To the OP - if you pull catalysts from mobs you might as well use them if you can Catalyze an entire set - if the character has no use for them (my Dominator needs two in total - one for each proc) then you can always convert them after upgrading and unslotting, but you don't HAVE to do so.

Also Ironblade - the Brute ATO set is going for upwards of 80 million a piece.

Originally Posted by Roderick

Yet another reason to form Trials in DA now. Before starting, go down the list checking everyone's level. Anyone who is +3 is good to go. Anyone else, /info them and check for Destiny Unlocked and Lore Unlocked on the badge list. You can't go by the power list, because someone with no Incarnate powers slotted could still qualify for the trial. Anyone who's missing one or both badges gets Das Boot.

If you do it anywhere else, you have to dig through every League member's badge list. Or ask 20 times who doesn't qualify, while the one guy stays silent because they're AFK, or they don't read chat, or they think that you're asking because you're a leet jerkwad who only takes other leet jerkwads on their teams and doesn't realize that they don't qualify.

Originally Posted by graystar_blaster

I have some i could help you with. I just found after talking to another collector 10 or 11 coral shards on old toons over 1100 days old.

The others i have to check and see when i get on tonight



p.s.

i think one or two of those that your looking for were never actually put in the game ever.

Originally Posted by Zenlon

bump this.. I'll pay 300-500mil per as of now. PST.

Originally Posted by Muon_Neutrino

The reason it does this is that boosting an enhancement to +5 *isn't* equivalent to boosting it by 5 levels. If it were, boosting a level 40 recharge by +5 would only increase it from 38.6% to 40.5%, which hardly seems worth the expenditure. Instead, each enhancement booster increases the power of the enhancement by a flat 5% of its base value - so +5ing an enhancement increases its bonus to 1.25 times its original strength. So, a 40+5 recharge gives a bonus of 38.6% * 1.25 = 48.25%, significantly *more* than a plain level 50 recharge's bonus of 42.4%.

Thus, as you saw, replacing a level 40+5 recharge with a level 50+0 one isn't actually an improvement. However, replacing a 40+5 with a 50+5 *will* be - a 50+5 has a bonus of 53%. That said, it's not going to make a difference of more than a fraction of a second in recharge, especially since it looks like you've also got a +recharge alpha (two 40+5 recharges don't give 113.5% enhancement by themselves, but that's about right for those plus a spiritual core 45% rech boost edit: whoops, no, it's not - I'll rerun these numbers later). As far as I can tell, going from two 40+5 to two 50+5 ought to take the recharge from 84.1 to 83.6 seconds - is 0.5s really worth the expenditure, especially since the difference will only get even smaller once you factor in your global recharge?

Originally Posted by graystar_blaster

http://paragonwiki.com/wiki/Misc_Salvage is a list of non obtainable salvage. So no amount of effort will get it.

As of Issue 13, crafted base items require Invention Salvage to create, rather than components made from base salvage. Base salvage no longer drops, but can be converted into invention salvage via brain storms.

Issue 13 was released to the Live Servers on December 2, 2008.

so characters most likely old "main" toons, Old farmers for influ or infamy cause there was nothing to farm for other than the badges. And old PL toons.



Issue 6, titled Along Came a Spider, was a major revision to City of Heroes released on Thursday, October 27, 2005

Characters in Supergroup mode can now gain Prestige and Salvage. These will be useful to players who own both City of Heroes and City of Villains in base building


So anytime after Oct 27, 2005 up till Dec 2, 2008 is 1133 days they were active.

oct 27 2005- till now is 2396 days total.


when they were taken out of the game was. 1264 days ago. so a toon must be at least 1264 days old to even have the ability to have any base salvage at all.

Originally Posted by Sentry4

8.528 billion / 150 converters = 56.8 million per converter.

That's my spreadsheet says.



EDIT: 9.240 billion / 155 converters = 59.6 million per converter. It fluctuates around these two values.

Originally Posted by Fulmens

Dammit, Granite Agent! You resisted our mind control rays! AND you didn't have to wait overnight for that bid to fill! (OK, slightly more constructively: I think of things as filling "in about five minutes", "Overnight", and "over a weekend." A lot of people buy and sell at the beginning or end of their play session, and a lot of people play more on weekends. Good on you for waiting, bad on you for not waiting ENOUGH. )

Getting back to the OP: I haven't been squeezing every last drop of blood out of the stone, but I seem to get around 200M for my 10 converters going from Alignment Merits converting Kin Combats. I played around a little bit with converting L30 rares into better L30 rares and did much worse (maybe 100M for 10 converters), I played around a little bit with converting purples. The money was good but I could get almost as much just flipping purples, so I started doing that instead.

Originally Posted by Intrinsic

You are absolutely correct of course. It's all about the money; my concern is that by selling purple enhancements, NCSoft is entering a niche where they are not competitive on price, and have to gain market share by creating artificial barriers to entry such as banning players who buy from other companies. Perhaps they should consider focusing on other products that bypass content, but where they would have a distinct competitive advantage.

A good example of this would be powerleveling services. Other companies offer that service as well, but the player has to give them login information which would leave the account vulnerable to hacking attempts. NCSoft could offer a token in the cash shop that would instantly boost a character to level 50 with no risk to the player's account. The player gets a level 50 character, and NCSoft increases their bottom line, so it's win-win. I mean, I probably wouldn't buy something like this, but the demand is obviously there so such a service would be worth it to some players.

They should also consider selling incarnate powers. How many posts have we seen in the forums about people who are frustrated by the amount of time and effort it takes them to progress through incarnate content? In particular for the people who like to solo, it would take forever for them to get T4 powers across the board. If they could just buy the powers in the cash shop, I'm sure many of those players would consider that worth it.

And of course, badges. Some badges are nearly impossible to get or only available for a limited time, like the anniversary badges or ones for special events. If they were offered in the cash shop, badge collectors would go nuts. A mastermind with a first anniversary badge? Or maybe a bughunter badge without actually having to find a bug? Definitely worth it.

I believe all of these would sell like hotcakes if they were offered in the cash shop, and make a fortune. I don't understand why the devs haven't added them in there already.

Originally Posted by Intrinsic

NCSoft should stop banning players for buying inf then. I mean, it was one thing when NCSoft could claim they were doing it to preserve the integrity of CoH, but now they're doing it to establish a monopoly over the RMT market in the game. Instead of enticing you into their cash shop with competitive pricing, they are using the threat of bans as a bullying tactic in an attempt to coerce you to use their shop over the competitors. I'm beginning to think that the devs don't have the players' best interests in mind here.


You could help to support emerging economies. Seems like a worthy cause.