Nethergoat

most of my market documentation requires taking more than one screen at a sitting. Alt-tabbing to a graphics program every time would be annoying.

you can also bind 'toggle graphics UI' to a key in the options. I have mine set to 'insert'.

A couple of people have posted screens of the blessed event so I know it actually happens. =D

Whoops you're right- they did add that slight chance to drop off bosses.

But as that isn't efficiently farm-able I don't think it adds appreciably to the overall supply.

I regularly flip the really low level -kb recipes for 20-30 million each.
The higher the level the higher the supply, but 10 million is very realistic.

Don't forget to list well behind the 'going rate' to ensure a quick sale.
If the 'last 5' are in the 10 million range and that's a price you'd be happy with, list for 6.6 or 7.2 or something like that. Undercut the greedy folk, list over the lowballers and score the next 10 million sale for yourself.

I'd say roll up a pile of tickets to see how you like it. Check the value of each recipe that isn't obvious garbage, check the value of the crafted IO vs the recipe and if it's relatively cheap to make (most bronze roll recipes can be constructed using cheap common and uncommon salvage) craft and list.

Here are the details of what's in the various pools.

My favorite is 35-39, which is unfortunately still outside your reach.
Another favorite among the forum cognocenti is 10-14. It's the smallest pool by far and nearly everything in it is absolute garbage, but the good stuff is REALLY good, in the 10,000,000+ range.

Drop weighting means you should get some decent stuff whatever range you roll in- it accentuates the stuff people actually use, so there'll be plenty of melee and ranged damage stuff, quite a bit of which generates solid profits.

Check out the list, make some rolls, see what happens.
If you roll enough tickets to get at least 20 rolls you'll get some good stuff.
As a form of 'money back guarantee', if you don't clear 10 million in sales PM me your global and I'll mail you the difference.

that's a good point. Pool C's are only generated by merits, presumably 50's working on NCotB* will still be getting purple drops in the normal course of play.



*New Currency on the Block

buying with tickets is nothing if not predictable. =)

my approach is extremely chaotic in the short run but remarkably consistent in the long.

It boils down to If you throw enough rolls at IO recipes you'll hit some winners. When we talk IOs 'the good stuff' is reliably some of the most valuable junk in the game. I regularly get recipes I can craft for a 50 million profit.

This approach does take a bit of research, generates a ton of garbage and requires some crafting to fully maximize profits, but over time it makes expenses like the price of rare salvage irrelevant.

Playing efficiently I can ticket-cap my favorite farming map in 15-30 minutes, depending on who I'm playing. I could turn those tickets into two pieces of rare salvage worth 8 million at the most, or I can turn them into 20 IO rolls at my favorite level.

20 rolls guarantees a few good recipes, and if you don't mind crafting them up your profits will dwarf the equivalent ticket amount of rare salvage.

That said, 20 rolls also means some research (not all the 'good stuff' is immediately obvious, even to an old timer like me) and an investment of time and energy to maximize the profit (gathering salvage, crafting, listing the resultant IO). I've been enjoying this process of discovery, but if it sounds more like work than fun by all means stick to just buying what you need.

Raking up a fat pile of tickets isn't hard enough work to make anyone worry about how they spend 'em. =)

I've got a feeling it will play out the same way merits themselves have- a massive supply nerf in the guise of a way to 'buy' rewards.

I can see the allure of buying direct, especially at lower than max level, but as always I must note the grievous waste of blowing 540 tickets on something you could pick up for much less than the 'going rate' with some patience.

I'm usually a 'buy it NAO' guy but sometimes I'll be on a 'poor' character and want to cut a corner or two. When I see salvage selling for 2 million, I know I can get it for 1.7 if I'm in sort of a hurry, or 1 and some change if I'm willing to wait. 4 million, I figure I can pick it up for 2.7 or so with a bit of waiting.

Tickets are potential, and i hate to see potential wasted. 540 tickets would be 8 bronze rolls in the 25-29 range or 7 in the 30-34. While these pools have relatively more junk in them than my precious 35-39 pool, if you're buying multiple rares the rolls add up. Every bronze pool has multiple recipes that would singlehandedly finance a healthy stack of rare salvage.

Buying rares with tickets might seem like a good deal, but IMHO it's a tactic that leaves potentially large profits on the table.

people can make all sorts of ridiculous, unwarranted and objectionable requests of you without creating an iota of "responsibility".

Posi continues to show the sort of insight and market understanding that fueled the quote in my sig.

My play time is ridiculously limited lately. I haven't been able to so much as log in this week, and when I can I rarely have time to do much more than run a mission.

I adapted my marketeering to this 'new reality', placing a lot of insultingly lowball bids on some very expensive stuff. They don't hit very often, but when they do the markup is astronomical.


I log in, check my traps, go do some stuff, then log out at the market.
Rinse and repeat the next time I get a few minutes to play.
This takes a few seconds per session.

The nice thing about the market is that it can adapt to literally any playstyle, from hardcore grind-money to extreme part-timer.

here's my secret:


I bid 5k on commons and 9k on uncommons, collect any insta-buys then walk away and let the rest sit while I run missions or whatever. I've usually won all my bids by the time I get back. If not, I leave them overnight, which takes care of about 90% of what's left.

Anything that has escaped your grasp is probably legitimately "worth" whatever the going rate is, at least in the short term.

If you're one of those folk like Fulmens who can't resist squeezing every ounce of juice from an inf, bid vendor price +1 for both. It probably works just as well as my method, but I'm impatient and like instant gratification.

as long as you don't answer "ten thousand years!" with a defiantly clenched jaw you're in the clear.

=D

If a bias for reality is wrong, I don't wanna be right!