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No worries, it's all good.

My post had nothing to do with prices, but availability. At any given time, those can be found on the Market, that was my point.

I am confused by this. Why is this pointed towards me? The only thing I said regarding purples was that they are not as rare as people think, that was it. I have no issue with their prices, or drop rate, or anything. My only comment was that, in my opinion and experience, they aren't all that rare.

I have gotten a lot of purples on my 35+ toons. This is due to the prevalence of ITF's that I run when my toons get over 35. Every toon I have leveld since Cimerora came out has gotten at least 2+ purples by the time they reached 47 and could slot them, or I would sell them depending on my financial needs at the time.

Perhaps not reading fail, more like misunderstanding how the system worked.

My statement still stands regarding purple availability.

Thank you for the clarification Bandeeto. I had thought they were separated by servers, which is how it is on every other MMO. I stand corrected. Thanks

Perhaps I used bad wording, what I meant to say is those last 5 are not necessarily the average price.

Yes, obviously "someone" paid that price, but that does NOT mean that is what the going price is for that particular item. Seller A has tons of Widgets for sale but he wants to sell them for more than the average price, so what does he do? easy, he buys up 5 items at the price he wants to sell at. IF the average price is 500 and he wants to sell for 5000 be buys the last 5 for 5000 1 at a time, then lists his stock of say, 20 of said item for 5000.

Buyer A comes along and sees the high price, so he bits something like 3500 thinking he might get a deal from the high prices of 5000....bingo! he wins! sold for 3500.

Now, this repeats, with some small variation, for the next 20 items that Seller A listed and me makes a whopping profit selling items for more than the "average" price.

This is just a rough example and has many many variations.

Understand me now?

I said nothing with regards to pricing being different on blue and red side.

As for you calling BS, you are welcome to. The fact remains. On my server, I have never not been unable to buy a purple IO recipe I was looking for. Even when planning out future builds and checking availability I have never seen 0 for sale.

The important part here you might have overlooked is "on my server" Maybe you play on a different server than I do, in which case your experiences may differ than mine. Playing on the most populated server does have its advantages from time to time.

That first sentence is a doozy. If you can't pay it, you don't need it? Since when did price determine need? No one ever needs any IO's, they want them. The cost of an item has no bearing on how much you need or want it.

Unique does not always equate to Rare it means you can only slot one of them per toon.

btw: just because the price is that high, does not necessarily mean someone paid that much. Price fixing is easy to do and happens A LOT on the market place.

Purples are not all that rare. At least on my server, at any given time I can go to the market, and look up ANY purple IO and there will ALWAYS be some for sale. The same can not be said for many other IO sets or particular IO's. The cost is only partially set by its rarity, the other part is the ridiculous amount of Influence/Infamy that many players have due to farming or people outright buying influence/infamy.

Funny how you chose to single me out and correct me rather than the person two posts above me who said pretty much the same thing. Then again, its the "in" thing to target me anyway. And no, i'm not saying you attacked me, don't get your feathers all ruffled up.

btw: it's not always what you say, but how you say it. Perhaps I misunderstood some of what was said, that can easily happen with the written word.

*corrected previous post to make Hellguard happy*

Fair enough, any chance you can recall the exact message it gives? That would be helpful too!

Voluntarily installing something does not mean it is not a virus. To say the definition of a computer virus is just a program that copies itself without human involvement is also not entirely true.

The name Malware includes computer viruses, worms, trojan horses, most rootkits, spyware, dishonest adware, crimeware, and other malicious and unwanted software, including true viruses. So actually, you are both right on that part.

Aside from spreading on its own, a virus usually causes harm to either a computer system's hosted data, functional performance, or networking throughput when they are executed. Some viruses have symptoms noticeable to the computer user, but many are surreptitious.

To the OP, I would not worry about it. As stated before it is an issue with Kaspersky being a bit over protective.

I see the part about all but tanks and some brutes, it is a bit ambiguous, but ok I could have misunderstand that part.

Then the part about pulling a "Hero" off "them" in a LRSF, again ambiguous with room for misinterpretation, which again I apparently did, and again I apologize.

Lastly the part on separating the healy nictus, I do this regularly and tank it on my blaster. I am a good player, but I am to humble to call myself a "great" player so if i can do it, anyone can. So not much really to flex about on that one.

You could have been far less offensive and aggro in your response, but your point is taken nonetheless. Sorry for the confusion I have apparently caused. We both seem to be in agreement over the import of World of Pain, but still in disagreement over the import of Provoke, and that is ok. People don't agree on everything all the time.

And really...keep playing? I have been playing longer than you have, at least according to the forum registry, which I know is not always accurate since I was playing since 2005 but didn't register until 2006 on forums. Among my numerous 50's is 4 Masterminds so I would say I have a good grasp of the class and various play styles. Because I may not agree with one of your opinions that hardly means i need to "l2p"

Yeah, I know I was nice and polite until that last paragraph. Sorry, old habbits are hard to break, but I am working on it!