Kitteh

I haven't scored a purple on a TF in ages.

Many, many months ago, back in early '08, I had 2 consecutive purples drops on the BM map. No inspirations, salvage or enhancements had dropped in between the 2 purples. Looked something like this...

Spawn #16;
Critter #5 - defeated
Critter #6 - defeated => Purple drop
Critter #7 - defeated

(Supersped over to Spawn #17)

Spawn #17;
Critter #1 - defeated
Critter #2 - defeated
Critter #3 - defeated => Purple drop


My most peculiar experience with the RNG by far.

I designed a build (assuming Rad/Fire is a straight port) that gives ~43% melee defense w/o the PvP IO. Still it's expensive as all get-out, of course, but it doesn't leave ya gimped nor does it overslot anything. The only caveat I see is End usage.

If I can remember I'll post it once open beta hits and Mids is officially updated.

I'll have mine 3-boxed with a Sonic defender and a Kin controller.
Sooooo much destruction!

Just wanted to mention again that this is a great feature all-around!

I guess I'll unload another stack of Celerity+.

I bought them for 5.2M each back in June.
The little Olivers of the world could have bought 3 or 4 of them back then as well.

As crafted, the "last 5" is flush with 50,000,000...and this time I had *nothing* to do with it

No better time than right NAO

Another vote for "relative".

Good builds! Good times!

Mine is here too for reference. To add insult to the critters' injuries, she will be 3-boxed with a Fire/Kin and a Son/Ice defender.
Verrrry much looking forward to the new difficulty settings.

No purples.
Several sets of Oblits and 2 sets of Blessings drive the overall cost.
I bought most of the Oblits back in June.

Once the market settles down, you could pick this all of this stuff up for 400-600M.
Run some AE arcs and you'll get a few of the ToDs, Blessings, Oblits and maybe the Numina or Miracle as well.

34% Melee Defense
49 S/L Res...35% E/NE Res
3.33 vs. 1.26 End Recvy vs End Usage
26% +rech and 52% +acc

Hero Plan by Mids' Hero Designer 1.401
http://www.cohplanner.com/

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Akari Myagano: Level 50 Magic Scrapper
Primary Power Set: Spines
Secondary Power Set: Fiery Aura
Power Pool: Fitness
Power Pool: Leaping
Power Pool: Fighting
Ancillary Pool: Weapon Mastery

Hero Profile:
Level 1: Lunge -- T'Death-Acc/Dmg(A), T'Death-Dmg/EndRdx(43), T'Death-Dmg/Rchg(43), T'Death-Acc/Dmg/EndRdx(45), T'Death-Dam%(45), T'Death-Dmg/EndRdx/Rchg(46)
Level 1: Fire Shield -- S'fstPrt-ResDam/Def+(A), S'fstPrt-ResDam/EndRdx(13), ImpArm-ResDam(13), ImpArm-ResDam/EndRdx(50)
Level 2: Spine Burst -- Oblit-Dmg(A), Oblit-Acc/Rchg(3), Oblit-Dmg/Rchg(3), Oblit-Acc/Dmg/Rchg(9), Oblit-Acc/Dmg/EndRdx/Rchg(11), Oblit-%Dam(11)
Level 4: Blazing Aura -- Oblit-Acc/Dmg/EndRdx/Rchg(A), Oblit-Dmg(5), Oblit-Acc/Rchg(5), Oblit-Dmg/Rchg(7), Oblit-Acc/Dmg/Rchg(7), Oblit-%Dam(9)
Level 6: Build Up -- GSFC-Build%(A), GSFC-ToHit/Rchg/EndRdx(17), GSFC-ToHit/Rchg(17), GSFC-Rchg/EndRdx(36), GSFC-ToHit(36), GSFC-ToHit/EndRdx(48)
Level 8: Healing Flames -- Dct'dW-Heal/Rchg(A), Dct'dW-Rchg(15), Numna-Heal/Rchg(19), Numna-Heal(23), Numna-Heal/EndRdx(42)
Level 10: Impale -- Thundr-Dmg/EndRdx/Rchg(A), Thundr-Acc/Dmg(15), Thundr-Acc/Dmg/EndRdx(31), Thundr-Acc/Dmg/Rchg(31), Thundr-Dmg/Rchg(33), Thundr-Dmg/EndRdx(33)
Level 12: Temperature Protection -- S'fstPrt-ResKB(A)
Level 14: Swift -- Flight-I(A)
Level 16: Combat Jumping -- Zephyr-Travel(A), Zephyr-ResKB(33), Zephyr-Travel/EndRdx(34)
Level 18: Health -- Numna-Regen/Rcvry+(A), Mrcl-Rcvry+(19)
Level 20: Stamina -- P'Shift-EndMod/Rchg(A), P'Shift-EndMod/Acc(21), P'Shift-End%(21), P'Shift-EndMod(34)
Level 22: Super Jump -- Zephyr-Travel(A), Zephyr-ResKB(23), Zephyr-Travel/EndRdx(25)
Level 24: Quills -- Oblit-Acc/Dmg/EndRdx/Rchg(A), Oblit-%Dam(25), Oblit-Dmg(27), Oblit-Acc/Rchg(27), Oblit-Dmg/Rchg(29), Oblit-Acc/Dmg/Rchg(29)
Level 26: Plasma Shield -- TtmC'tng-ResDam(A), TtmC'tng-ResDam/EndRdx(31), TtmC'tng-EndRdx(39), TtmC'tng-ResDam/EndRdx/Rchg(42), TtmC'tng-ResDam/Rchg(46), TtmC'tng-EndRdx/Rchg(46)
Level 28: Ripper -- Oblit-Acc/Dmg/EndRdx/Rchg(A), Oblit-Acc/Rchg(36), Oblit-Dmg(37), Oblit-Dmg/Rchg(37), Oblit-%Dam(37), Oblit-Acc/Dmg/Rchg(43)
Level 30: Burn -- RechRdx-I(A), Erad-Dmg(42), Erad-Dmg/Rchg(50)
Level 32: Throw Spines -- Posi-Dam%(A), Posi-Dmg/EndRdx(34), Posi-Dmg/Rchg(39), Posi-Acc/Dmg/EndRdx(40), Posi-Dmg/Rng(40), Posi-Acc/Dmg(40)
Level 35: Boxing -- Acc-I(A)
Level 38: Tough -- EndRdx-I(A), ResDam-I(39)
Level 41: Caltrops -- RechRdx-I(A)
Level 44: Weave -- EndRdx-I(A), DefBuff-I(45), DefBuff-I(48), DefBuff-I(48)
Level 47: Rise of the Phoenix -- RechRdx-I(A)
Level 49: Fiery Embrace -- RechRdx-I(A), RechRdx-I(50)
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Level 1: Brawl -- Empty(A)
Level 1: Sprint -- Empty(A)
Level 2: Rest -- Empty(A)
Level 1: Critical Hit

The past two evenings have been weeeeee!
If your buy-side timing was good then it's just like April all over again.

Historically, that's about right, but I'm certain that there are a lot more 50s that need IOs in comparison to the past 2XP weekends...due to AE...so this week's extreme prices may last a bit longer.

It's about team make-up...combos and levels

Revenue for me.

I'll be consolidated soon, but for now I have waaaay too many toons across 3 servers (both sides) standing at the market.

I'd lose my mind trying to record my costs.

No tally yet, but the profitable-fun has only just begun!

Over the next several days, folks will be busy building out their brand new 50s and I'm wholly committed to give them what they need.

All that lag and rubberbanding that was happening over the weekend...well, that was the weekend crew manipulating the market right there in Production. They too, are getting ready for 2XP weekend.

The more stuff you put out there, the greater the chance for snagging a typo.
Last week, I got 150M for a 15M (last 5) item.

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Question to everyone who sees these discrepancies frequently:

Are the characters who get extra getting more ticket drops, or more tickets per drop?

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GQ ... I'd have to capture the logs and take a look-see.
I can't even really give you an "IIRC..." right now.

All that I've done to-date is to write down the tickets on-hand before and after an AE run...the source of that data is the salvage window.

If I can remember, I'll record and analyze the logs of my runs for the upcoming weekend.

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Ok, that does it. You people are forcing me to take all 3 accounts to the arena now...

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lol...I thought the same thing.
In fact, put a sticky on my 2nd monitor to remind myself: YOU. ARENA. NAO!

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i paid 8 mil for a prophecy this morning because of one of my cats.

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lol... Cats have been know to steal your money

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It's natural instinct really

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As an update, I may have discovered something. The person in my 3-box trio who gets 3x trio has always been the second person in the team of 3, due to the order I always invite. By chance, that account client had a rare crash to desktop and when he rejoined, he was person #3 on the team. Now, the new second person on the team is getting the triple tickets. They have been getting triple since they have become #2 on the team, and the old #2 is at #3 now and to normal tickets. I've done 2 or 3 missions this way.

So it could be team position.

Lewis

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Which sounds very similiar to the "all my purples are going to my SK while I farm" bug back in early 2008.

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So, fellow Ebil marketeers do you have any stories like these to share?


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I was able to do this with a certain IO recently.
Picked up 34 recipes in small stacks...none over 500K each.
Painted the IO sale history to 15M (up from 6-7M) and sold the remaining 26 or 27 IOs at 20-25M each.
I think the IOs are back down below 10M now, but I'm gonna do it again, if people let me.