Skifer Tomme

Thanks for the great advice! I'll be sure to use it!

Though I will just say, I pulled those things down two weeks ago to list them for less, and my own gut instinct would be to let things ride over a 2XP weekend, but it was still far away at that point.

And I'm just a little bit beyond that now.

Please, don't hesitate to provide that advice anyways, I'm sure this isn't the last time I'll be working a character through the Market so even if it's not usable by "current me", "future me" will most certainly take any advice I can get!

Although as a counter-point, doing this with the time lag does mean that I really have to do this on my own knowledge (that which I've stolen from these forums of course!) rather than have my activities boosted by Forumers. Which, in the end, will give a much more accurate picture of how someone in my position could do this, provided they weren't keeping a thread going on the forums for further advice of course.

Ah the good old observer effect.

I remember my first character not being able to afford a whole set of SOs until 32... It was just craziness!

I'm on Virtue these days, though I did start on Freedom way back in the beginning. I'm not surprised if you've run across me doing PuG TFs, since I've done a surprising amount lately, and a lot more than I was expecting as a Stalker. I thought there was a fair amount of grumbling against Stalkers in general and on teams specifically, but I haven't come across that at all, and I've been on teams with upwards of 3 stalkers at a time.

Day 5: Monday July 23, 2012
Sold the Overwhelming Force Quad for 20 million influence and none of my bids filled. I've got a few extra Market slots, and I'm not sure what to fill them with, I've got more capital than buying recipes to sell to vendors can chew up, not to mention the low return per time investment compared to what I know is out there. So I decide to put some lowball bids of 2 million each on all the Stalker ATOs for my own use. Gotta start on that build sometime!

Did my Hero Tip Missions and confirmed Hero Morality.

Sold the Second Achilles’ Heel Proc for 50 million, while the first one just sits there taunting me. My liquid capital finally getting higher, at 61 million I feel I have some room to make mistakes without going backwards.

Ran an Admiral Sutter TF, which is the weekly. We had a false start due to the leader having their difficulty all the way up. Made it through the first mission, but couldn't really progress after that, so we restarted and changed the difficulty, then the run was nice and smooth. Especially with that nice big chunk of XP at the end.

Had a few recipes hanging around from doing stuff, so I crafted them up. In the end I had an Efficacy Adaptor EndMod/Rech 40, Luck of the Gambler Def/Rech 26, Red Fortune Def 50, and Scirocco’s Dervish Acc/Dam/End 41, all free of charge! Listed them on the Market for various prices, around the last 5, but generally on the higher side. Though to do this I had to cancel my Stalker ATO bids.

Did Signature Story Arc 1.1, which was super easy to stealth through the missions and blow up bosses from stealth, which is a nice departure from what I've been used too. My poor Warshade has a heck of a time doing solo content at this level. Got my Hero Merit, and a Scirocco’s Dervish Dam/Rech 27, bough the salvage for it for 1.5 mill, listed for 10.1 mill, see how well that does!

Collected some more proceeds from Generic Sales, and re-upped 2 of the cancelled bids for Stalker ATOs at 4.1 million, a little better than the 2 mill earlier, since I've got a little more cash now. Now I need more slots, which is a turn around from earlier today. The market sure is fickle!

Been using the Salvage I have in my base as a buffer for not paying “Buy it NAO!” prices on salvage, though I am replacing it with proceeds from this character. Of course that does mean I'm tieing up Market Slots with lowish bids on salvage, may have to rethink that strategy, or figure something else out, but with just one character my options are limited.

Big day, got lots done today, and I'm sitting at 64 million in just liquid influence.

Keeping a log is pretty much to keep me on track and focused, and it's done wonders so far, I've been focused to the point of ignoring any other gaming, which I don't exactly love, but since it's only for a short time, I'm ok with it. And yes, I'm still at it 2 weeks in (18 days to be exact, or 74 hours), and a lot farther than I though I'd be, but I don't want to get ahead of myself.

Day 2: Friday July 20, 2012
So this is the boring part, buy stuff and sell it, buy for REALLY low, though the breadth of things that can be sold is quite the variety. This time I decide on 35-45 Generic Recipes and combining Large Yellows into Large Purples, which quickly gets me to two million influence.

I refresh my bids, and head off for some leveling!

I run two Death From Below to get all the badges and hit level 11. Gotta love how they stream-line the lower levels, if you want to go that way.

I'm hoping to hit those ever so lucrative ITFs later in leveling, so I do my Midnighter's Arc right away and get an Achilles' Heel: Chance for Resistance Debuff, score! Crafted and listed for 45 mill, since that's the max I could list it for with my funds, and since it was going for 40-50 mill in the last 5.

Finished up my night by running through the Hollows to Frostfire, at level 13, who I promptly take out in moments, like in the first rotation of powers. Man Ver hits like a truck!

Rolling back to Atlas to check the market I alt-tab to write down my nights work, then promptly load back into the hollows when I click on the CoH window... Been a LONG time since I've done that but it brings back so many memories of the old days, used to always have that happen to my friends.

All and all a productive night and really having fun with my little stalker.

Ya..... It's complicated...

Suffice it to say that this isn't my first account, and though I did post on my older account, it wasn't a lot, I'm usually a lurker on forums rather than a poster. Earlier this year when I decided to pick up CoH again I choose to start fresh, and keep my older account as Premium, since that lets me do certain things more easily, like ticket farming, self-PLing (not that I've done much of that, been too involved in actually playing ), inviting my own alts to my SG, and stuff like that.

Also, I haven't been playing for 7 years straight, that's just when I started, I have about 3 years worth of subscribed time, which has been spread out over those 7 years of time.

Thanks for the well-wishes!