GavinRuneblade

I don't consider crafting "playing" the market. I consider searching through the recipes and crafted to find a recipe with lots in stock and none crafted then making that your niche for a while and exploiting it playing the market. I consider flipping playing the market.

But even so, just sell everything and you can make tons. Nethergoat has a "project mope" where he listed all drops on the market for 1 inf each. He crafted some drops if he could only needed to buy 1 or 2 salvage. He netted a little bit over 1.3 million per level averaged out once he hit 30. No playing the market nothing. Just list everything for 1 inf and go.

Has nothing to do with stalking, it is one of many ways to make money for any character. I have seen many newbs figure out that they can buy stacks of uncommon slavage for 100 and sell them to a vendor for 1000. I have seen many newbs figure out real fast that they can buy stacks of level 50 recipes for 30k and sell them to a vendor for 100k. I've been in kings row with a guy newly off his trial account talking about how he made 8 million that way in less than an hour with a level 4 character. You can do it in praetoria too but the run to the vendor from the auction house is a bit farther than kings row.

The real trick that new players won't figure out is selling at a low price increases your earnings. I list all my salvage etc at less than 100. Compared to when I was listing for 248 to be just below the vendor price and be sure I wasn't "losing" anything, I sell way faster and make vastly more money. No new player will know this. The secret to nether goat's money on project mope is the sheer power of listing everything at 1 inf. It will all sell. Enough will sell above vendor to balance out that which sells below. Most importantly, it will sell fast.

But if you're selling your drops and still can't afford IOs, then I think you team too much, or the random number generator hates you or you are selling to the vendors. =) Teaming is great for exp, but really bad for money. Especially since you level faster you need money faster.

And don't sell your drops to the vendors except for TOs, DOs, and SOs. Each alchemical silver is worth a LOT. List it on the market for 1 and it will sell instantly sometimes for more than 100k. Runes, demonic blood samples, circuit boards, etc all worth a lot more than 250 each.

I know. Sigh. What I'm really thinking is a variant on jousting. Instead of running past the enemy and the attack triggers but you keep moving, I'm thinking of walking through the melee, tabing between enemies and hitting each once as you pass. Without the rooting (or minimal rooting) so the movement is fluid. I do think that could be done in a balanced way. The damage would necessarily have to suffer.

I would also like a power like spin, fire sword circle, whirling blade, etc that lets you land at a different point than you started.

Also, with proliferation, not all powers stay intact. Brutes got more damage and slower claws for instance.

On the defense set, the way I envision the teleport is the exact opposite of teleport foe. Instaed it is "teleport to foe". Select an enemy, hit the power, appear in melee with them.

A nice primary set variation would be an aoe that teleports you in rapid succession once to all enemies in the area of effect letting you attack them then teleport away to the next.

Some cool ideas running around in this thread. Just sad that so many are asian themed. Need some more european influence or African or South American. Too much asia.

I know all that, and I have used it and in the end it doesn't offer enough that I care about it. Boss or EB? ST hold, Aoe Hold, ST hold, and he's held. I pack 85%+ recharge into my tier 2 hold, plus lockdown and/or devastation chance to hold (depending on build).

On my plant, dom is nice to get confusion off on the bosses, but really, I usually just hold them so again, I don't need it, so I don't care about it. It is just one more clicky that I forget to use when it is up. Especially since I have holds in my secondary too.

Don't get me wrong, it is helpful, but in general our powers are so good that except on very specific encounters (Freedom Phalanx, Mitos in Lady Grey) the benefits from domination are gravy, not meat. And it's not a flavor of gravy that I enjoy. So I pass. The fact that it does nothing at all for the secondary, pools, or any temp power is another reason I ignore it. I use my secondary rather a lot.

If I click a power I want it to do something violent or hurtful. I'm really not a big buffer/debuffer kind of guy. =) Leadership is pretty much my ideal form of buff, toggle and forget. I like that. I know how valuable they are and I'm glad to let other people do it. I'll hold 'em you debuff 'em, lets both hit 'em. =)

back then I did use it for the damage, and I used it a lot more often. But if they pulled domination and gave us build up, I'd be happier.

My problem is that I always look at the numbers and think, hmm I COULD spend a few seconds clicking domination, or I could spend those few seconds launching an attack. And the attack wins. Even when I'm facing a boss I think, hmm with domination I'll do dom-sthold and he's held for 1 hold worth of damage. Without it, in the same amount of time I can do sthold-aoehold and he'll be held with slightly more damage and the mob will be held also. And again, the damage wins.

A self buff vs hurting the enemy? I will hurt the enemy every time. Make domination into a passsive like defiance, adding a .5 mag to all our mezzes for a few seconds with every mezz we launch and I'd be in dominator heaven.

I have one character with power boost. It is unslotted and not on any power tray. I probably will never take the power again on any character. I don't really care about mezzing the boss in one hit. I think about it this way:

Domination = 1 power
ST hold = 1 power

I'm still using two powers to hold him, but only 1 does damage. I would rather:

ST hold - aoe hold

or on my plant ice:
plant hold - ice hold

Same two powers, but now he took extra damage and will die that much sooner.

Yup I know you can use domination before the attack so once the fight starts, yadda yadda. I'm talking about my time, not fight time.

The point is they still have -tohit, and if they run they only run for a few seconds before cowering.

Some won't attack, that's mitigation. Some will attack but miss more often, this is the best mitigation a brute can get. And if they run they don't run as far.

This is pure win with the only drawback being the end cost.

No no no, that would be Ascendant-Os. Warning: If you have never seen it before, do NOT attempt to drink while reading that page unless you enjoy having liquid come out your nose.

Titan-Os are like level 40 Hami-O's. So you can use them from levels 37 to 43. And not before and not after.


@eryq and ChaosAngel: Nerfs are good. You have two choices when something is broken: Bring everything else up to its power, or take it down. The right choice, is nearly always to take it down. Shield was not nerfed hard enough (aao still needs an adjustment). The zephyr change was fine. Now, nerfing something that's not broken is different, I can get behind no unnecessary nerfs. But if it's broken, I want it nerfed.

How did it come to this!

This would not be awesome. We already have more flexibility than any other MMO I am aware of in terms of un-binding "gear". More than this and they might as well make all slotting flexible so you can pull and push IOs at will. This would be really bad for the in-game economy. Demand is a good thing.

It is sad but my #1 they are saying will never happen. Top 3:

1 Huge body type for females

2 Slider used to set level for selecting tickets, merits and A-merits works to set level for recipes generated by random rolls

3 Creation of PvP minigames

All others in no particular order:

* All costume options available for both sexes. This includes dresses for males and tattoos for females.

* All NPC costume parts available for players.

* Radiation Assault for Dominators

* More unlockable weapon and costume options

* Ability to stack temp power charges (like the vanguard bombs that only have 3 charges, or the Wentport's 1 charge, etc) to numbers in the 10s or 30s

* War Axe for Stalkers

* New PvP and Purple recipes so there is one or the other for all recipe categories

* More recipes per set than you can slot (ie add a 7th and 8th to Touch of Death)

* Titan-Os drop at "your" level

* Badges for Oroboros pseudo-taskforces

* Shadow Shard gets the Hollows-style revamp with story arcs, and more content

* More new critters for old factions like came out with i18. Those are all very cool additions!

Don't some criticals have an unressistable component?

I will usually take maneuvers because it may not help me all the time, but it does stack. There are enough Veats out there that it all adds up. Especially because I never take maneuvers without also slotting a full gaussians in tactics and then it's not 2$ it's 5.5%.

@ the op: I make the call based on what helps my build more. If I need the defenses, I take tactics and slot gaussians or rectified reticle. If I need damage I take assault. If I actually need to hit more I slot a Kismet and call it good. As far as I'm concerned tactics is not a tohit bonus, it is a place to slot gaussians. =)

I don't "try" to reach it, I can't avoid it unless I decide to deliberately stop using inspirations. =) I just click all my non blue and greens right before a spawn. If I fill up, I click them all again.
And I didn't really set out to get capped. I just put oblit in all my aoes and touch of death in all my single-target attacks. Mix of red fortune, titanium coating and rreactive armor in the toggles, and here I am. I tried to make a build at one point using sucker punch's planner, but I didn't like it so I just winged it by picking sets I like.


Nothing wrong with that =)

Not aoe. You still have to hit each one individually.
Doesn't really set us apart from anything. It's still just single-target damage, which we already have.

Actually, I think less viable since the damage ticks might prevent you from regaining hidden status. Not sure on that though.

not in my experience. And, most of the time even spawns of multiple EBs go down so fast it would hardly matter (think ITF).

sparks. That bit, the flavor, is cool. the actual impact and benefit, I'm not so sure of.

Spines/nin. Pools: speed (just haste), fitness, leaping, Patron: Soul

Wait wait wait... there are scrappers that PLAN things?

One of these days I'll actually start to care about domination. I tend to use it purely as an end refill. About once every two or three missions. I honestly can't remember the last time I used it twice in the same mission. I'm sure I must have though.

Even without it, dominators are pretty much the perfect AT as far as I'm concerned. I just with they had fewer melee attacks and inverted the ranged and melee damage modifiers.

Key differences, war mace has much higher percentage chance to knock, and smashing damage is vastly less resisted than lethal. Mace's powers also do a bit more damage base.

Mace also has far more customization.

War mace if actually very much superior to axe.

Which makes be sad, because I think maces suck and I want a big brutal axe to kill things with.

But you can -Res debuff the victim. =)

You win this thread.

What did you do to get capped all around? So far I'm stuck in the 30s. Lots of options to go higher, but none I really like. So curious to know what worked for you.

Rule #1, sell TOs, DOs, etc to the vendor. Put everything else on the market.
Rule #2, rule #1 means you will always be rich on all characters.

Ok, take your character to the tutorial, never skip this bit. Bring your inspirations to the trade house. List them for 1 inf each. On a good day you'll have 1 million Inf right there. On average it will be 150,000 inf. Before you do anything else, go to the "fixed price" section of the auction house and buy a teleport power to the auction house itself.

You only have two slots, so pick one of the following types of common IO: Accuracy, Damage, Recharge, Endurance Reduction. Look at the salvage and place two bids for 10 each of what you need to make them. Luck charms for accuracy are expensive, most of the rest you should be able to bid at around 301-ish and you'll fill up almost immediately.

Now go back and do your praetor white missions etc leaving the auction house to do its thing. Before you log out for the day, teleport back to the auction house and log out there. If your bids all filled collect your salvage and run to the university and craft (you can buy your recipes directly from the crafting table). If not, just wait until you log back in. Remember to buy a new auction-house teleporter they are 1 use only.

Every day use your teleporter or run to the auction house and sell all your salvage any any recipes you choose not to craft. Craft a few of the good guaranteed to sell common IOs, post and log out. Log back in, collect lots of money and go back to playing.

I had 12 million by the time I left imperial city and 2/3 of my slots were using set IOs. There are still more bids for the IOs I crafted and sold than I was able to fill. Meaning someone could make a lot more money at this than I did. Once you memorize the key recipes you can earn a ridiculous profit.

It's slow when you first start and you have only a few slots to sell with. Rapidly that changes, and you can start earning. The really painful bit is the recipe limit until you hit level 10.