Daemodand

Are you sure about that? Jack Emmert is a great example of a game designer who was all about forcing play styles. Also, look at the Incarnate system and its heavy bias towards encouraging participation in the Trials as opposed to the conversion "solo" route.


Solo is a valid play style.

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Fixed. Pure alignments can and should have an unique advantage just as middle alignments do.

So I checked it out and the 20 RR ToHit/Recharge recipes (the best of the 3 pieces, looks like) seem to be going for about 40 million, crafted for 60 million.

I'm not too impressed. I'm getting about 60 million right now with zero crafting, though I can see the appeal of going after this, I personally wouldn't.

They called me a conspiracy theorist when I predicted this situation (that Booster Packs would lead to a dearth of quality free costumes) back when the wedding pack was released. I don't like to say I told you (you in the general sense) so, but...

And the statement was made when Positron was the one setting policy, wasn't it? And he is no longer the one setting policy? And War Witch would be very unprofessional if she publicly disagreed with her boss on policies he set? Come on, I'm trying to be optimistic here.

Don't worry, SR is one of the most misunderstood melee armor sets in the game. I've seen people say it's bad, then I look at their builds and see they've done things like put off Dodge until level 41 (yes, someone actually did that!)

It's probably the single most underrated melee armor in the game.

I happily stipulate the fact KM/Stone is going to be more survivable, and is the most survivable Brute of all with the possible exception of DM/Stone. But I will note the damage output of KM/SR will be superior, along with very respectable survivability. And it lets you see your costume.

P.S. Due to the nature of SR, it will conditionally outlive any other secondary, and conversely it will conditionally be the squishiest secondary as well. Some people don't like this trade-off, they prefer something reliable and consistent (who can blame them? But personally I find the uncertainty thrilling.) but for me those glory moments are well worth the embarrassing moments (and the glory moments outnumber the embarrassing ones as you finalize your build at 50-- primaries like Dark Melee and Kinetic Melee help to minimize the low-points even further).

"England expects that every man will do his duty."

This distinction between British and English seems a largely modern affectation. Historically, they've been interchangeable.

To the hard core MMO crafter, easy is synonymous with boring. Compare the crafting in this game to Droid Engineering in another nameless MMO. Droid Engineering, with all it's little complexities, all its craftable subcomponents, that was fun and it was pretty much all I did in my time there. Ah, memories!

You are correct, sir. My hypothesis is that while random-roll-craft-sell is the optimal approach, random-roll-sell is "good enough" as an alternative, especially given the lower overhead and lesser time requirements, not to mention avoiding an in-game activity I don't enjoy, and minimizing contact with the market to boot.

The crafting in this game is boring. I don't do things that bore me in this game.

Rectified Reticle? At 1 AM, it'd have to sell for about 34 million to "be worth it". Ima check, but I don't recall RR being anywhere near that expensive. Plus, crafting is yucky, Ima not do it except if Ima use the Enhancement myself.

Will random rolls be worse than direct buys in the long run? My guess is they are actually superior in the long run. The advantage of direct buys is they "aim for the middle" so you avoid the situation where a random roll craps out on you and gives nothing but junk. But while you're avoiding those lows, you're also missing out on the highs. Look at what 2 AMs bought me due to two high-payout random rolls. There's nothing you can buy with 2 AMs that will give you 189 million, and if there is I want to know about it (I really do!)

So I respectfully disagree.

Well, I'm trying to show the value of random rolls. My hypothesis is that, even sans crafting, random rolls are worthwhile compared to direct-buy-sell. I might be right, I might be wrong, I'm making the rolls to try to falsify my hypothesis.

Right now I'll agree with the idea random-roll-craft-sell is most likely the optimal path, though I wouldn't be 100% surprised if random-roll-sell came very, very close, given the lower overhead. But yes, random-roll-craft-sell is most likely optimal. I just don't like the craft part so if I can make my stated acceptable minimum, the method would be worth it, for me.

Someone above said selling something for 1 inf goes to the lowball bidder, but this is not really accurate. Selling for 1 inf gets you the highest bidder among currently active bids. If a recipe sells for that 1 inf, the recipe is most likely of marginal value (ie, semi-junk) anyway, most likely with very little demand. Truly valuable recipes will always sell for what they are worth. That's why I always put purples up for 1 inf, too.

And some of the older posters here will probably recognize the "Sure, we all do!" phrase from those Sally Struthers hosted ads for a starving-African-children charity from the 1980's, so try not to take that too seriously.

So what's your conclusion?