Nethergoat

I wonder how long a character named

THE PROC-TOLOGIST

would survive before getting generic'ed.

these days I don't have much time for gaming.
when I am able to log in I play the market and for the last few months hit MA, ticket cap a farming map and fill my inventory with bronze roll IO recipes.

The Goat just filled up his base storage with crafted set IOs (hoarding for the GR release Marketpocalypse), so I started running Oro story arcs for merits (difficulty +1/x3). He's mostly slotted with purples & PvP IOs so his set bonuses travel well.

It's an interesting contrast to MA in that you get SO MUCH JUNK from the 'real' game. I'd almost forgotten the slot-clogging flood of vendor trash you get instead of clean, energy efficient tickets.

And I've been so desensitized by the mammoth profits to be made in MA that rare salvage drops go unnoticed until my inventory turns red and I go in to delete the junk.

Here is a light sprinkling of Goatwisdom to top the bountiful salad of knowledge already assembled by my fellows in eeeebil:


IMHO the easiest way to 'learn' the market is just play the game however you like but pay attention when the time comes to offload your junk. Most of the of the best niches I've found over the years came from checking stuff I got as drops.

Always check the discrepancy between what a recipe sells for and what the crafted IO sells for. There is a world of inf to be made there. In my Goatrules thread I bought ten set IO recipes and all the salvage to craft them for a pittance, crafted them and sold the lot for a million plus each. This can be done with many, many, many IOs.

The two main routes to profit are low margin, high volume or high margin, low volume. The first setup is relatively foolproof- lots of sales generally mean a stable pricepoint for you to work from. The second is where the big scores are, but the risks are commensurately higher. Hold off diving into the deep end until you've mastered the basic strokes.

I also recommend that everyone interested in the market flip something cheap for a period of time. Observing what goes on will give you a better understanding of the forces at work than a million threads like this one, however insightful. I flipped Ancient Bones redside for a week, and I use what I learned there every time I open the market UI. Pick a relatively cheap, high volume common, place bids across a range of prices and do the same with your listings. Watch how fast things fill and how fast they sell, watch other players react to your "manipulation", and close up shop once you've got a good 'feel' for how it works.
You won't make a lot of inf, but the market wisdom earned is priceless.

forget coddling a failed power, just replace group fly with something useful.

I'm not hopeful that Wagner's vision will survive the transition to the big screen.

tried it a while back, didn't like it.

hopefully not too many folk got shafted by the new owners.

hah, fantastic!

Congrats on hitting the cap in the slow lane.

Market whiners, take note! Persistence pays!