Reptlbrain

You can buy/earn bigger bags:

Rikti Merits can be traded for more salvage storage
Crafting common IOs at high levels (lots of them) gets you more recipe storage
Certain selling badges get you more market slots

The sequel:

LotG +rech 25
Gaussian's rech/end 25
Decimation and Scirocco triples
and another Aegis Rech/End

Finally bothered to get my first low-level A-Merit roll (all others 40+), and lemme tell you, that was 20 million well-spent.

2 Tempest Chance for End Drain 23
1 Aegis End/Rech 25
1 Ghost Widow's Acc/Rech/Hold 23
1 Impeded Swiftness End/Rech/Slow 23

Sure, I suppose I could've gotten Dark Watcher's Despair Rech/End, or either of the Debilitative Actions, but this is collectively the godawfulest roll I ever saw.

Anyone got worse?

You missed the Golden Age of Hurricane, when it pulsed every (tenth? twenty-fifth?) fraction of a section, only repelled to the edge of the graphic, and gave you a pony at the end of every mission.

A few things to help the extra-long repel:
a) slow the critters first, if you have Snow Storm, before you begin pushing
b) immobilize the critters first, if you have patron immobilize
c) cast Freezing Rain mostly behind, but still hitting, the enemy spawn*
d) move in gentle, wide arcs to corral the critters

Usually on my /storm MM, the makeup and density of the spawn, and their location with regard to surroundings helps determine whether my alpha is Hurricane or Thunderclap (maybe not available to you yet).

Gale? only for available corners, or a really spread out spawn.


*I think--though am not sure--the bug with Freezing Rain means it's actually more effective when critters leave the FR area of effect before it's over.

1 These be the words which Smurphy spake unto all Paragon on this side Crey's Folly in the wilderness, in the plain over against Independence Port, between Croatoa, and Eden, and Cimerora.
2 And it came to pass in i18, that Smurphy spake unto the children of Paragon, according unto all that Wentworth's had given him in commandment unto them;
3 After he had slain Another Fan, which dwelt in Heshbon, and eryq2 the king of Bashan, which dwelt at Astaroth in Edrei:
4 Turn you, and take your journey, and go to the mount of the Black Market, for it hath mergeth, and unto all the places nigh thereunto, in the plain, in the hills, and in the vale, and in the south, and by the sea side, to the land of the Luddites, and unto Cap, unto the great river, the river of inf.
5 Behold, I have set the recipes before you: go in and possess the IOs which Statesman sware unto your fathers, peterpeter, Fulmens, and Cap'n Canadian, to give unto them and to their seed after them.
6 The LORD your Smurphy hath multiplied your inf, and, behold, ye are this day as the stars of heaven for multitudes of inf.
7 (The LORD Smurphy of your fathers make you a thousand times so many more as ye are, and bless you, as he hath promised you!)
8 Take you wise men, and understanding, and known among your supergroups, and I will make them super leader over you.
9 And ye answered me, and said, The thing which thou hast spoken is good for us to do.
10 So I took the Superleader of your SG, wise men, and known, and made them heads over you, captains over billions and officers among your SGs.
11 And I charged your judges at that time, saying, Hear the causes between your brethren, and judge righteously between every recipe and its crafted IO, and the gap between how they are priced.
12 Ye shall not respect persons in judgment; but ye shall hear the common salvage as well as the great pool Cs;
13 And I commanded you at that time all the things which ye should do.
14 Behold, the LORD thy Smurphy hath set the inf before thee: go up and possess it, as the LORD hath said unto thee; fear not, neither be discouraged by that which didn't sell.
15 And ye came near unto me every one of you, and said, We will flip salvage before us, and they shall search us out the drop rate, and bring us word again by what way we must go up, and into what is most profitable of the rolls.
16 And the saying pleased Smurphy: and he took twelve market slots, one for each tribe.
17 And they took of the fruit of the land in their hands, and brought it down unto us, and brought us word again, and said, It is a good market which the LORD Smurphy doth give us.
18 And the LORD said unto me, Say unto them, Go not up, neither fight; for I am not among you; lest ye be smitten before your enemies. But flip and craft and sell.
19 So I spake unto you; and ye would not hear, but rebelled against the commandment of the LORD, and went presumptuously up into the hill speaking of the prohibitive cost of items.
20 And ye returned and wept before the LORD; the marketears of the downtrodden, but the LORD would not hearken to your voice, nor give ear unto you.

Caveat: I've never run robots, but I did experience the same thing with the paper tissue pets, er, I mean the genin, before level 20.

One tool you have in your box that is very effective, that no one mentioned yet, is Darkest Night. It's slow to cast, but you can cast it and get out of Line-of-Sight before it activates, meaning you can usually avoid putting your bots out of defensive. (Have them goto'd waiting on the other side of the corner.) DN not only pulls and typically compacts the spawn (helpful for future AoEs), it also stacks with the -tohit in Fearsome Stare, and helps even more with -dmg.

...I buy a stack of things a year ago, and then somebody orders one up now.

...I can afford to give away res/+defs and -kbs to SG mates.

...I log in and have snagged 3 Theft of Essence +ends since I last checked.

Fairly sure I have a 33 or 34 Decimation D/E if you want that...

Lazy method with virtual zero market time:

Mail yourself a million inf.

Level 4, grab email, run to market, put in bids for stacks of 10 acc, dmg, endrdx, rch, and (insert toon's specialty) lvl 15 crafteds, so that you don't even have to figure ahead your slots at 12-ish. Slot the ones you don't use at 13, 15, 17, and/or sell 'em for profit.

Finally, paratroop ninjas and self soft-cap!

I put up a Scirocco D/E lvl 27 recipe for 1,111,111, if you like. I know I have another somewhere, but I got tired of looking for the toon with it...

I'd definitely take Caltrops and the 3 blasts out of the choices at the beginning, maybe putting off Entangling and Beacon for forever.

The only rub I really see with Sonic is the cone AoEs don't jibe particularly well with the PGT/Acid/Trip Mines, since you want those roughly in the center of the spawns.

Even though their damage is unimpressive, I'll put in a plug for Siren's Song and Shockwave for their utility, especially soloing.

Several places don't have very efficient slotting choices--you've put too much or little of a set in, or you've enhanced the wrong portion of the power.

Set Issues: If you put in 5 Gaussians or Makos, you should go ahead and put in the 6th for the defense bonus in the 6th slots. Almost no one puts a 5th LotG in a power, since that slot is a crummy bonus, and you've already usually ED-capped the defense with 4 high level LotGs.

Enhancement Issues: Reconstruction, MoG and Hasten should get max recharge (95%). MoG doesn't need any defense enhancing, unless you're just looking for a place to mule set bonuses.

Neither Instant Healing or Resilience deserve so many slots. Heal enhancement doesn't give much bang for buck on IH, and Resilience is a terrible power except for the purposes of slotting a Steadfast res/def (which you should do).

Only 2 rolls, but 10% of the results have been LotGs!

These also from the 35-39 range. With the intro of A-Merits (since you can really buy on demand easy), the fact that I have collected a handful each of the cool-rare <31 recipes (Cloud Senses, Theft +end, Shield Breaker procs, et al), and the case that I have my lifetime needs of End/Rech/Slow 'C's, I've quit rolling in the 30-34 range.

Yes, you can use someone else's morality mish--though I assume you've got to have the 10 pts of proper alignment.

Unless you've borrowed goods from someone, you can't technically sell short, right?

You could--provided the price falls far enough that the market fee doesn't eat away your profit--sell the stock you have on hand now, and then buy it back in the future at lower rates. Thus you'd have the same stock and some inf, which--if prices continued to fall--would be worth even more than when you acquired it.