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Quote:my guy is 97% done (still need the 'craft eleventy thousand recipes' thing, but I'm in no big hurry) and sitting on 80m in pure profit after Frankenslotting out and picking up a fairly pricey low level Kismet +acc. And he did the bulk of it during the Great Monkey Shortage of commons & uncommons.Originally Posted by Scene_EU
Finally profit can be gained by all the badgers who threw millions away for the field crafter badge!
I mean I can see how it would cost you a fortune if you were all NAO NAO NAO, BUY BUY BUY, CRAFT CRAFT CRAFT, DELETE DELETE DELETE! but aside from the level 10s (which don't cost enough to care about) the only badges I lost money on were the holds. -
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Dear OP:
I know jack about math, but it's been my experience that if you find yourself arguing with UberGuy it's best to stop, take a breath and revisit the assumptions behind the point you're advancing.
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Quote:Originally Posted by Electric-Knight
While I share much of the thoughts and approach that you express here, there is one little thing about that that I think is worth mentioning...
While, indeed, the friendly/outgoing nature (or lack thereof) of the people working on said product does not matter one bit...
I do believe that the product of a group can (and usually does) reflect the atmosphere and general chemistry of that group.
And the end results often reflect the general attitudes of those from the top and on down.
So, I think it generally does matter who they are. Just not in terms of the social standards you spoke of (or some others seem to hold to).
I've seen way too many great products produced by vile people to buy this.
If I was thinking about working for some company or other it'd be relevant, but as a customer?
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I'll kit out one of my favorites and they'll be my go-to INCARNATE ONLY CONTENT character.
That's as far as I'm planning on going, unless the process is tremendously more fun than it looks. -
Quote:link stolen to terrorize facebook with.Originally Posted by spice_weasel
I have the soundtrack on vinyl.
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Quote:I've never seen one, and I do my share of farming.Originally Posted by StarGeek
Random is Random.
TEH OP STOLED MY DROPZ!
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Quote:quality is irrelevant when the subject is robbing graves.Originally Posted by Lothic
Obviously there's a lot of room to debate whether the "resurrection" of long dead actors in this way is good, bad or otherwise.
But here is something to consider: With advances in CGI happening all the time the likeihood that someone, somewhere will be doing this in the future is almost guaranteed. Frankly I'd rather have a person like Lucas with the backing of his industry-leading talent and technology spearheading this so that the quality of it can be as good as possible.
Mildly mouldy or basically skeletonized, a corpse is a corpse and the process of unearthing them for commerce is morally repellent. -
Quote:Originally Posted by Mothers_Love
The dark side of the Force is a pathway to many abilities some consider to be unnatural."
Howard Chaykin called this back in 1983 (Randall Flagg was fired from his TV show after being replaced by a computer simulacrum). -
inherent stamina has been an absolute boon to all my lowbies, and all its done for my higher level guys is open up more build possibilities (for example, now my ar/dev has a spot to pair a PvP +3% def IO with the Steadfast he already had slotted, plus another couple of LotG +rech).
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hey, do any 88's have one of those PVP global defense IOs lying around?
I find myself in need of one for my ar/dev's post-inherent stamina UBER BUILD, but if I can buy one AND have the inf feed the furnace so much the better!
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Quote:If you need any help, let me know.Originally Posted by plainguy
I have been trying to do the same, unfortunately I do not have the passion you do for the market. But I see I will have to try and work a bit harder at the market as it is an inevitable necessity to create some great builds.
I actually 'earned' most of this build doing nothing more than running one MA farm map a session when I had the time. It took him 20-30 minutes to cap the tickets at 1500, I rolled 'em all bronze at 35-39, deleted the junk and crafted the good stuff. I bought the sets I knew I'd need as I went along and stuck 'em in base storage. The only marketeering involved was when I found a particularly good score (cheap recipe, expensive crafted IO) I would grab 10 or 20, craft them up and sell 'em off.
I can definitely see the benefits of hover- I hate Warwolves on anyone with a big slow. But even though I'm trying to min-max this guy at heart he's a concept character, and flight just doesn't feel right. He's got beanbag and web grenade for the occasional runner, so it's not too bad.Quote:It uses hover instead of combat jump. My thoughts about this is simply excluding caves mission issues. There are mobs that can run through caltrops with on effect ( ex werewolves ) which would then require me to keep back peddling. But now with hover I can disregard caltrops if needed and just hover just above the mobs head forcing them to switch to ranged attacks.
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Quote:Choosing to be poor doesn't get you any brownie points.Originally Posted by Ultimo_
Heh, ya. Everything is relative. Technaught is my wealthiest character, having around 40 million influence. He stumbled upon a very rare recipe at one point (I don't even remember what it was) that sold for about 50 million (I posted it for 1 million and got 50! Colour me suprised). My next wealthiest has about 7 million, he's L44 (my highest level character, at that).
If you've got enough merits lying around to blow 300 on junk without batting an eye, use 'em to buy GOOD stuff and rake in fat profits, then you won't have to wheeze and faint at the outrageous prices the next time you go IO shopping. -
clearly one of The Conspiracy read this thread and arranged for these drops to prevent you from revealing The Truth to everyone else.
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Quote:As far as I know the demon farm isn't timed.Originally Posted by EternalWho
So if I got the demon farm on another toon it would not be on a timer or some such nonsense?
if it just vanished without you completing it you might make some headway with a petition.Quote:Going Villain and then coming back Hero and reacquire the mission since I did not complete the arc? -
Quote:no.Originally Posted by EternalWho
Are popular farm missions in todays CoX (Battle Maiden, Council Empire, etc...) of the sort that have reduced drop rates?
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post inherent fitness revamp!
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Big Payback: Level 50 Natural Blaster
Primary Power Set: Assault Rifle
Secondary Power Set: Devices
Power Pool: Fighting
Power Pool: Leaping
Power Pool: Speed
Ancillary Pool: Munitions Mastery
Hero Profile:
Level 1: Burst- (A) Thunderstrike - Accuracy/Damage
- (3) Thunderstrike - Damage/Recharge
- (7) Thunderstrike - Accuracy/Damage/Recharge
- (9) Thunderstrike - Damage/Endurance
- (27) Thunderstrike - Accuracy/Damage/Endurance
- (29) Thunderstrike - Damage/Endurance/Recharge
- (A) Trap of the Hunter - Accuracy/Recharge
- (3) Trap of the Hunter - Immobilize/Accuracy
- (11) Trap of the Hunter - Accuracy/Immobilize/Recharge
- (33) Trap of the Hunter - Chance of Damage(Lethal)
- (48) Trap of the Hunter - Accuracy/Endurance
- (48) Trap of the Hunter - Endurance/Immobilize
- (A) Thunderstrike - Accuracy/Damage
- (5) Thunderstrike - Damage/Recharge
- (5) Thunderstrike - Damage/Endurance
- (7) Thunderstrike - Accuracy/Damage/Recharge
- (29) Thunderstrike - Accuracy/Damage/Endurance
- (31) Thunderstrike - Damage/Endurance/Recharge
- (A) Positron's Blast - Accuracy/Damage
- (9) Positron's Blast - Damage/Recharge
- (11) Positron's Blast - Damage/Range
- (31) Positron's Blast - Accuracy/Damage/Endurance
- (31) Positron's Blast - Damage/Endurance
- (46) Force Feedback - Chance for +Recharge
- (A) Accuracy IO
- (A) Ragnarok - Chance for Knockdown
- (A) Gaussian's Synchronized Fire-Control - To Hit Buff/Recharge/Endurance
- (13) Gaussian's Synchronized Fire-Control - To Hit Buff
- (13) Gaussian's Synchronized Fire-Control - To Hit Buff/Recharge
- (15) Gaussian's Synchronized Fire-Control - Recharge/Endurance
- (15) Gaussian's Synchronized Fire-Control - To Hit Buff/Endurance
- (17) Gaussian's Synchronized Fire-Control - Chance for Build Up
- (A) Absolute Amazement - Accuracy/Stun/Recharge
- (17) Absolute Amazement - Stun
- (19) Absolute Amazement - Stun/Recharge
- (19) Absolute Amazement - Accuracy/Recharge
- (21) Absolute Amazement - Endurance/Stun
- (A) Blessing of the Zephyr - Run Speed, Jump, Flight Speed, Range
- (21) Blessing of the Zephyr - Knockback Reduction (4 points)
- (23) Luck of the Gambler - Recharge Speed
- (A) Gladiator's Armor - TP Protection +3% Def (All)
- (A) Positron's Blast - Accuracy/Damage
- (25) Positron's Blast - Damage/Recharge
- (25) Positron's Blast - Damage/Endurance
- (27) Positron's Blast - Damage/Range
- (43) Positron's Blast - Accuracy/Damage/Endurance
- (A) Luck of the Gambler - Recharge Speed
- (A) Recharge Reduction IO
- (33) Recharge Reduction IO
- (34) Recharge Reduction IO
- (A) Red Fortune - Defense/Endurance
- (34) Red Fortune - Defense
- (34) Red Fortune - Defense/Endurance/Recharge
- (36) Red Fortune - Defense/Recharge
- (36) Red Fortune - Endurance
- (39) Luck of the Gambler - Recharge Speed
- (A) Blessing of the Zephyr - Run Speed, Jump, Flight Speed, Range
- (36) Blessing of the Zephyr - Knockback Reduction (4 points)
- (A) Sting of the Manticore - Accuracy/Damage
- (37) Sting of the Manticore - Accuracy/Interrupt/Range
- (37) Sting of the Manticore - Damage/Endurance/Recharge
- (37) Sting of the Manticore - Damage/Endurance
- (39) Sting of the Manticore - Damage/Interrupt/Recharge
- (A) Damage Increase IO
- (A) Ragnarok - Accuracy/Damage/Recharge
- (39) Ragnarok - Accuracy/Recharge
- (40) Ragnarok - Damage/Recharge
- (40) Ragnarok - Damage/Endurance
- (40) Ragnarok - Damage
- (A) Accuracy IO
- (A) Expedient Reinforcement - Accuracy/Recharge
- (42) Expedient Reinforcement - Accuracy/Damage
- (42) Expedient Reinforcement - Damage/Endurance
- (42) Expedient Reinforcement - Accuracy/Damage/Recharge
- (43) Expedient Reinforcement - Endurance/Damage/Recharge
- (43) Expedient Reinforcement - Resist Bonus Aura for Pets
- (A) Steadfast Protection - Resistance/+Def 3%
- (A) Lockdown - Accuracy/Hold
- (45) Lockdown - Accuracy/Recharge
- (45) Lockdown - Recharge/Hold
- (45) Lockdown - Endurance/Recharge/Hold
- (46) Lockdown - Accuracy/Endurance/Recharge/Hold
- (46) Lockdown - Chance for +2 Mag Hold
- (A) Shield Breaker - Accuracy/Defense Debuff
- (48) Shield Breaker - Defense Debuff
- (A) Dark Watcher's Despair - To Hit Debuff/Recharge
- (50) Dark Watcher's Despair - Chance for Recharge Slow
- (50) Dark Watcher's Despair - To Hit Debuff
- (50) Dark Watcher's Despair - To Hit Debuff/Recharge/Endurance
Level 1: Brawl- (A) Empty
- (A) Empty
- (A) Empty
Level 6: Ninja Run
Level 2: Swift- (A) Run Speed IO
- (A) Jumping IO
- (A) Miracle - +Recovery
- (23) Numina's Convalescence - +Regeneration/+Recovery
- (A) Endurance Modification IO
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we've got more slots than we did before.
there are marginally fewer *placeable* slots thanks to the extra powers, but not enough that a reasonable person would kick about it. -
Quote:when I was dragging my ar/dev bodily to 50 with the intent of getting him to the ranged def soft cap I ran him through one MA farm a night- inefficient soul that he is, it took nearly 30 minutes to hit the map ticket cap.Originally Posted by Leo_G
But I'll reiterate, I think the better path is to do AE. If the market is scarce of IOs in your level range, rolling for them yourself is a good plan. Bronze roll for 70 tickets each is a shot at any of the 6 and if they are going for 5 mil, just sell any repeats you get...
I'd roll all bronzes 35-39, delete the obvious crap and craft the good stuff for sale.
Over the course of a couple weeks I nearly filled up one of my SG storage bins with Thunderstrikes of various flavors- I needed a couple of sets, so I just stored whichever ones I happened to get. And besides all those Thunderstrikes he made enough inf to buy everything necessary for his 'uber build' while still hovering around the inf cap.
Which is a long-winded way of saying yes, tickets are a viable way to get thunderstrikes (and make a truckload of inf besides). =P -
I find corrupters more enjoyable than defenders. Their buff/debuffs are 'good enough' in a team setting, they do good damage solo and there are several primary/secondary combos that you can leverage to lay serious waste to anything in your path (fire/dark, for instance).
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Quote:wisdom.Originally Posted by Rush_Bolt
Random drops are random.
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I'm saving up for a giant Winter Solstice bonfire at the base.
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Quote:this is a valid point- I just glanced at the mid's output and didn't notice the level restriction.Originally Posted by EricHough
Since Ultimo mentioned the character in question was L41 he was probably shopping for recipes in the 30-40 range and right now those are a little scarce, since everyone and their mother is running 50's for incarnate drops so very few mid level recipes are being generated.
I would still bet a pile that I could kit out for much less than a million per recipe by looking at off levels and exhibiting a soupçon of patience.
blowing a lot of merits on a recipe that's one step above a junk drop is just nuts.
even if they WERE all five million, that's chump change when you consider what you CAN get with that many merits. -
anyone I don't like gets deleted.
the closest I come to disliking one of my longtime characters is my emp/elec defender. He's one of the first characters I made and I picked elec for thematic reasons. It didn't take me long to despise it thoroughly.
Thunderous Blast is great, I like Tesla Cage, the rest of it can die in a fire.
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Quote:Remember all those overpriced Numinas I got stuck with when Amerits crashed the price?Originally Posted by EarthWyrm
IHaven't looked at Armageddon yet, but the damage sets seem to be stable, riding the wave of "enhance my 50s!" that has things like the Numina ++ up about 33% from last weekend.
They all sold yesterday.
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Let this be a lesson to young marketeers- sufficient patience can redeem some pretty serious marketing errors. =p