Nethergoat

Yep.
The reward structure of MA is what makes it so efficient, not the map you run.

Anything less than level 50, yes.
Supply at level 50 is as vibrant as ever.

Keep in mind that the BUY NAO! prices you're using to make your judgement are substantially higher than what a patient bidder would expect to pay.


Why does crafting something you will personally slot rate higher on the entertainment scale than crafting something you can get a big pile of inf for which you can use to buy things to personally slot?

Both lead to the same goal and the second option will get you there much faster.

remember when the ads featured hicks in cutoffs swinging into the lake on a rope? =P



I use coffee, Peet's French Roast. I brew with one of those plastic cone filter things using two scoops of fresh grind per cup.

Zing!

yah right.


*rolleyes*

their laziness isn't our problem.

my sig speaks the truth.

great utility and a fantastic place to park a (relatively) cheap purple set?

they could have called it 'tea bag' and I'd still find room for it.

I can vouch for Thunderstrikes & Doctored Wounds. I've sold a metric ton of them during my recent vacation in MA. I'm socking away all my melee drops in base storage for the arrival of the tidal wave of new Kinetic Melee characters that GR will bring with it so I haven't sold any of my Crushing Impacts. Yet.

if you follow my MA farming plan you'll be making 100-200+ per hour.
=P

Running straight missions, no way on earth barring a super lucky drop.

So you don't see spending hours clearing identical piles of enemies off the same map over and over and over as being tedious, but spending ten or fifteen minutes every few days tending market bids is?

I enjoy both activities, but if I had to label one of them I'd choose map farming- it takes much longer and requires far more repetitive behavior than tending a market farm.


/also, for recent arrivals:

Another Fan isn't operating in good faith. His only purpose here is to spew the same line of gibberish that we've debunked dozens of times in the interest of fueling whatever fire happens to be burning at the moment. There's a word for it that we're not allowed to use here, but if you don't feed the thing with no name it will eventually go away.

I on the other hand enjoy both activities. =)

I'd like the same access to Pool C drops as the people who have the time to invest efficiently running TFs for merits do. But as they say, if wishes were horses we'd all have a Magic Pony for getting around town on.

In any case, all you need to do to earn billions is play the game and sell your drops. It will take you longer than a player who takes action to maximize earnings, but you'll get there.

I never get in too deep with any recipe unless it's basically free.
The market is full of other players looking for scores, and in the past I've had my dependable, lucrative niche get gobbled up overnight by rapacious competitors who don't mind narrow profit margins, sometimes leaving me with a bunch of unsalable junk in base storage.

If I'm buying recipes to craft and sell, I stick to a couple at a time and try to stick with very high profit items. I ran a gig last week where I bought 10 defense recipes for a few k, all the salvage for them for another few k, crafted the whole lot at once and sold them all for between 2-7 million.
It was astronomically profitable from a % standpoint, but I won't be repeating the experiment. I'd rather make the 60-odd million profit I earned there off one recipe even if it cost me a lot more to create.

If I could reliably depend on more than 20 minutes of straight gamplay at a sitting I'd be riding the TF merit train too.

But tickets aren't a bad consolation prize. =D

level 50's are by far the most efficient wealth creators in the game, so if earning $$ is your goal playing your 50 is the way to do it. Generic IO recipes drop frequently and sell for around 100k each, inf for defeats racks up fast and level 50 also has the largest audience and fastest turnover for the 'good' set IO drops you get.

Salvage is fun but it isn't a serious source of wealth generation- the big money is in set IO recpies.

I'm not familiar with ice/ice, but my fire/ice is a farming machine and assuming the ice primary has some good AoE damage you should be able to mow big piles of enemies with ease. /ice gives fantastic mitigation so survival against big piles of low-ish level enemies shouldn't be a problem.

If I can efficiently farm MA with my mediocre ar/dev, you can do it with an ice/ice.

set your mission slider to +0/x(whatever you can survive).
I started at x3, and as I slotted good enhancements slowly bumped it up until now I mow along at x8 without breaking a sweat.

For fast inf generation with a low learning curve I recommend finding a good MA farm map, capping your tickets and rolling them all in the Bronze 34-39 range. You'll get 20 or so recipes for your trouble and while most of them will be junk you'll reliably get 5-10 winners. Blue side, crafting some of them will make you silly profits, I make between 50-100+ million per run. Not bad for 30 or so minutes.


there are also lots of 'pure' marketeering methods for raking in the inf, but the 'farm and sell' method is totally bulletproof.

I find this game much more intuitive, less time intensive and more equitable than Wow, and by such a huge margin I don't see how any reasonable gamer could disagree.

I have extremely limited time for gaming, and yet I've been able to kit out my ar/dev project blaster with "the best gear" in a little less than a month of real time with a game time investment of a few hours a week. Our economy and the WoW AH are both great for generating big piles of money, but only one of them lets you buy the l337357 gear no strings attached (hint: it's ours).

You will make a giant pile of inf on your way to level 50 doing nothing but selling your drops on the market, several hundred million at least. If you take even the smallest steps toward maximizing that wealth, say by crafting the occasional 'good' recipe or making an MA farming run once in a while, you'll greatly multiply that earning power.

And if you buckle down and do any kind of serious farming or marketeering, your biggest problem will be rolling new alts to act as your inf mules.

if that were the only change they'd made in the market I would be singing the praises of the new interface from the rooftops.