JImmyTwoTimes

Originally Posted by MondoCool

"My way or the highway" is right. It doesn't matter how experienced they are or if they're a noob or not. They are the team leader, and if you do not listen to them they have the privilege to kick you from their team.

If the team leader has no problem with you going off and doing what you want, that's fine. But if he asks you to stay with the group - then you stay with the group. If you're some kind of a trendy, non-conformist rebel that doesn't like being bossed around by The Man and his evil totalitarian dictator ways? Go make your own team.

Originally Posted by Organica

Yeah, I do it for the workbench and the extra salvage storage.

I did that this weekend for Sparks Fly, my current favorite scrapper. I had over 500 items crafted already, and the Inventor badge from University, but I had none of the memorization badges. I managed to get field Craftier by Sunday just after Noon. ^_^

I was planning to do it for more than one character, but eh, it's too much work. I typically work up the energy to earn field crafter on a toon only once every 4-6 months.

As for buying crafted IOs... on cheaper IOs I'll do that when I'm working on a build, because I can slot them immediately. But on more expensive stuff I'll take the time to buy the recipe at a low to mid level price. Except that a month or so ago I paid 1.7 billion for a Panacea proc recipe and crafted it, and did not even realize that the crafted version was selling for just about 1 billion. O_o

Originally Posted by Adeon Hawkwood

Honestly, the market is the best arbiter of whether or not a set is good. If you ask here you get the opinions of a few people. If you read the market you get the collected opinions of the entire player base.

If you see something with a bunch in stock and no one bidding and a last 5 at or near the vendor price, well chances are it's not regarded as a good IO. Something with a similar number of buy and sell orders is probably regarded as a good set. Something with a lot more buy orders than sell orders means the set is in high demand (often due to a low supply).

Now this isn't perfect, some sets are good but aren't in high demand since most characters can't slot them in significant quantities. The best option here is to compare sets to other sets of the same type. i.e. Lockdown is a decent set but is generally cheaper than Positron's Blast because people have less need for Hold sets than Damage sets. However, Lockdown is more expensive than Ghost Widow's Embrace because it has about the same supply but better set bonuses.

Originally Posted by Adeon Hawkwood

Well you can check the market but I doubt any of them are worth much. Most of the sets are debuff/mez sets which aren't popular enough to be valuable. Kismet is a Defense set which are generally more valuable but Kismet itself isn't that popular and the particular IO (End/Rech) isn't going to be to popular since most defense powers are toggles.

The Reactive Armor IO is a decent IO in a semi-popular set but level 19 is a bit low, most people opt to slot IOs either in the 30-33 range or at the max for the set. You could potentially slot it in Mind Over Body if you want. As a level 19 it's slightly less effective than an even level SO but unlike SOs it'll remain the same until 50 (it provides about 45.6% of the effectiveness of an SO to two different attributes so overall it's about 91% as effective as a single SO). However, if you were planning to take that route I'd read Fulmen's guide on Frankenslotting and do it properly.

Originally Posted by End Sinister

I take it that you're speaking to me? You didn't need to create a new thread to address what you had to say.

As far as my influence flow, I can make a few hundred million easily and I do know how to play the market. The issue is that I don't have a farmer in the traditional sense and I refuse to make one (such as a fire/kin controller). So I use whatever level 50 I have at hand, which right now just so happens to be my tank. With that being said, AE farming is a very long and arduous process, boring too. However, I do farm tickets every now and then to keep my WW slots full.

As far as not wanting to wait or paying exorbitant prices? I don't think anyone wants to be paying 10 to 20 (or more) times the normal cost of anything. I don't have time to play every day so I don't want to be waiting to buy something. Selling is obviously a different matter. Before the incarnate trials, if I wanted a circuit board immediately, it normally had cost around 500 if I wanted to wait or that much or slightly higher if I wanted it immediately. It did not cost 200 times the amount.

It's all well and good that some of you in this forum have the time to be farming and logging in every single day, but for many of us out there we simply don't have the time to dedicate as we once had. The only positive this has brought is that sought after enhancements have come way down in price