Daemodand

Okay, I can buy that.

I still wish DP got Aim instead. IMHO Swap Ammo is an interesting toy but not really a serious tool like Aim is.

And VEATs were suggested on the forums? Hmmm. I remember just about everyone speculating that Villain EATs would be Nictus. I'm really, really glad that didn't happen, though. The VEATs we got are so much more than Nictus ever could have been.

Increase Bruising to 20.25%? ^_^

Another convert! Welcome to the club! Martial Arts is a great, fun set. Eagle's Claw>Dragon's Tail FTW!

I have no illusions about crafting making more money in the long run. If you craft, you will get more inf, in all likelihood. Now, using the time you'd be purchasing materials, crafting, pricing and listing enhancements for running missions, I don't know if that will lead to more inf, unless you're a high end farmer (do hard core farmers craft generally speaking?)

This experiment is all about minimal market contact and minimal effort (no crafting). It's a given I'm going to make less on this stuff than a crafter would, but how much less? And is that much less worth the tradeoff? Speaking only for myself, based on the rolls so far, the answer is "yes". Of course, this could change based on future rolls (my target is around 67 million per roll).

And thank you for reading it. I hate crafting in this game, too. My advice is to craft and sell if you want maximum inf. In general, I don't bother. I do craft on occasion if I have something I want to use myself. But having done "real" crafting in other games, the crafting here is just not interesting at all.

Most of the rolls have come from my MA/SR Scrapper Daemodand so far. He had a stockpile and I thought I'd entertain myself by expending them publicly. As he runs out, my alts are pitching in, and Daemodand converts the occasional Reward Merits as well since I'm revisiting all the game's story arcs with him.

One could gain 1 Alignment Merit a day just by running two alts through Tip Missions, as well. It takes less than an hour to complete a set of 5 Tip Missions, so it isn't really time intensive.

And now it's time for today's random roll!

ROLL THE TWELFTH:
Time & Space Manipulation: +Stealth (Recipe). V9,995
Impervium Armor: +Psionic Resist (Recipe). 1,080,140
Aegis: End/Rech (Recipe). 456
Executioner's Contract: Disorient Bonus (Recipe). V9,995
Gift of the Ancients: Defense (Recipe). 4,509,014

THIS ROLL: 5,609,600
TWELVE ROLL TOTAL: 788,769,951
TWELVE ROLL AVERAGE: 65,730,829

COMMENTARY: And back to crap rolls. I'm still right on target though, and the next roll is bound to be higher, so no problem. I got burned on the Aegis. There were more bids out than recipes, and they were going for 1 millionish, but mine went for next to nothing thanks to my 1 inf rule. C'est la vie!

I put in a bid for a PvP +Def IO. Average wait time: 64 days. It isn't a game-changer for my build so I can wait.

The PvP changes ran contrary to what forum-going players were asking for, so no, those changes were not a result of any suggestions here.

ED...I don't know. I came to the game in Issue 6 so I have no idea where that came from.

I've been playing Ice Melee for the first time recently. This is the fixed version of it? I'd hate to see the original! Not even having played the original, Ice Melee does have a couple neat tricks, but damage output isn't one of them lol. The time it takes me to whittle down a red-conning Boss is disgusting. IM does have a couple of neat tricks and has been just entertaining enough for me to not reroll to something else, but I wouldn't be surprised if it was on the bottom of the pile for Tanker damage output still.

I still remember with fondness the first time I saw that creature swimming around. There's just something about Sally!

You hit the nail on the head about Defense sets. They can softcap with very little effort, so they have all their set bonus opportunities available for other things, where other sets are spending their bonus opportunities on Defense instead. A surprising number of people haven't grasped this yet.

My initial impression of Energy Absorption both from an Endurance gain and Defense gain standpoint was "That's it?" I'm sure once I have it six-slotted, it'll feel like a completely different power. Or at least I hope.


Our characters are supposed to be superheroes and supervillains, so we expect them to be powerhouses all on their own (and they should be!) But Batman did make a good point when he said, "There are some challenges even we can't handle individually."

Thank...mew? *pours gasoline on self, ignites it with match, jumps screaming out window*

I thought about vendoring it, but I saw there were some good bids in the history, so I took the chance at 1 inf and got burned. It's a very so-so IO, and IMHO 5 is about what it's really worth. Well okay, more like 10k, but that's pretty much the same thing. And that 5 inf came along with about 200 million friends, so I really don't care at all that 1 recipe sold for nothing. Was probably a flipper that bought it and put it back up for 1 million. 1 whole million. Yawn!

And now for today's random roll!

ROLL THE TENTH:
Force Feedback*: Rech/Endurance (Recipe). V9,995
Trap of the Hunter: Acc/Immob/Rech (Recipe). V9,995
Touch of Death: Acc/Dam/End (Recipe). 100,005
Lockdown: Chance for +2 Mag Hold (Recipe). 45,006
Touch of Death: Dam/End/Rech (Recipe). 509,096

THIS ROLL: 674,097
TEN ROLL TOTAL: 661,696,005
TEN ROLL AVERAGE: 66,169,601

COMMENTARY: Feast and famine! My highest roll ever is followed by my newest lowest roll ever lol. I'm right on target, though, and there's nowhere to go but up!

Back when there was no endgame, that was my belief. Now? As opposed to the road to nowhere leveling used to be, it's now a road that leads to Disneyland. And a trip to Disneyland is not about the journey to Disneyland, it's about being at Disneyland!

What about all those story arcs? Ouroboros. And playing those arcs is much more fun on a kitted-out-exemped-50. Much more fun.

I still don't approve of power leveling, though. There's definitely something to be said for spending a good amount of time with a character on their way up. Daemodand probably wouldn't be my main if he weren't such a problem child in the lower levels (back then the level 30-40 part of the game felt like a roach motel.)

100% transparency would probably be more informative.

Now this attitude I find much harder to understand than that of a hardcore soloist. The hardcore soloists are at least playing a game that they like. You are playing a game you don't like, only because there are other people also playing that same boring game. Now that makes my head asplode.

Now if only the city would collect my garbage for 4 inf, I'd be all set!