Grey Pilgrim

Eh, I figured you meant redside character of some point. Not enough giving the benefit of the doubt to people going on in this thread, I guess.

At the levels you mentioned earlier (or any level), you may or may not have recipes "right nao" blueside, either. I know from looking myself while frankenslotting for things. There are more 50s in game and fewer people playing through at low levels, I think, as lower level recipes seem to be around less than they used to be.

I'm not really sure what you are trying to prove with this, anyway. I haven't really seen anyone say that the redside market is stronger or more active than blueside's, as that's pretty much a given for anyone paying attention. All most of us are saying is that you can get things on the redside market: you just have to be patient (and for some things, it's cheaper, too).

There are some people flaming, but there are other people discussing things with you. You do seem to have a bit of a grudge yourself, so moderate a bit, and run with what other people are saying.

I note that you have pretty much ignored everything I said to focus on the "flamers," so there would be a starting point for you right there. Unless you want your focus to be on "you vs. everyone else." Can't help you then.

I dunno, I would think it's at least on par with Dr. Kahn, if not a bit more difficult. There are a fair amount of ambushes and AVs, and some of those rooms are extremely crowded, so you would have to be careful with aggro there. The Riders can be a little more tricky as well: especially with their debuffs (as Hammy said many times this weekend "damn end drain!").

I'm not saying it is the most challenging thing ever, but it's above the challenge of the Phalanx TFs and seems worthy of adding a "Master" badge to it.

I thought that was the way it worked as well. There are options for levels of Hami-Os and recipes that cannot even exist in the game (like level 53), as long as you have your settings right.

VEATs aren't so good there, but yup, that's what it was supposed to be.

For the poster you were replying to, VEATs aren't that epic to play. They're just a solid AT and can be quite powerful in teams, but the same can be said of a lot of our ATs. The greatness of CoX is derived from how many combinations can work, really.

For the OP, I'm a little leery of requirements to unlock anything. Costume sets are both good and annoying for this, and unlocking ATs does put a gate around some significant work from the devs.

You can bid on items that haven't been posted before, or aren't posted currently. How are you setting up your view in the market? If you set it to view all (rather than for sale or bidding), you should be able to see all level ranges for the recipe you are looking for, whether they are sale at the moment or have a bid in.

I do rather wonder if the lower level recipes will improve with GR and things like that, as more people will want to start new ATs. I know I'm kind of holding off on any new ATs right now, as the concepts I have are set up more for GR.

Level 10-20 recipes are weird. Used to be some of the sets there (like the Achilles -resist) was quite cheap. I stocked up on about five of those for toons that were going to need them, and the total price for those was cheaper than you can get one for now.

Thanks! I started writing it way back in May, but it has gotten backburnered a LOT. Teaching is very time-consuming, and my main focus is creative writing, so I couldn't find a lot of time to do it. Finally made the final push after seeing so many Fiery Aura questions put up in the past couple weeks.

I updated the builds again. Since only one build at a time in a post will download, I expanded the detail on the two IO builds I have (kept the non-IO set offensive build the same, as that is easy enough as it is).

What recipes did you bid on? Depending on what they are and their type, they might be relatively rare. I didn't think the Gaussian Rech/End recipe was very rare, but it actually is a rare drop. Also, level 17, 23, 27, and 29 are not common drop levels. If you look at recent purchase dates, they do seem to hit the five digit categories fairly often, whereas the other ones can be slower.

You have to explain what your experience was more in depth for people to say, "yup, those should have gone in," or "nope, those are rare, no surprise there."

I have all of two villains that I play often, but I have gotten two other Masterminds to 50. Some sets move fairly quick, other ones are quite slow. Slower than blueside. So it just requires being more patient. However, I like salvage prices a lot more redside... blueside is generally more expensive, for whatever reason.

No matter what, just play the side you like to play. You may have to wait longer for some sets on the market, but that should not decide your enjoyment of the game. I saved enough merits about a month back to make a bit of cash on my Stalker, and was finally able to slot him with most of the sets I wanted. He was a blast before that, and while he has higher performance now, he's just as fun.

Probably would be a good idea to pair your archer with a Secondary you don't need to switch to very much. Devices works well for this, as you use most of those powers before combat. Someone mentioned that it worked well with Energy Melee earlier, as you can just use the buffs before fighting. That works pretty nice for me... when you pull out your bow after that you can hear yourself saying, "let's do this." Heh.