SwellGuy

Unfortunately until Aug 17 (M-Day) comes out the answer is "it depends". Currently from levels 4-20 a hero smacking Hellions and Circle of Thorns can get some common arcane salvage and do well enough to afford their DOs.

Few recipes in the 10-14 range are worth anything so many rolls using AE tickets for bronze rolls in that range can work on both sides (hero/villain) once you get a KB Prot or some other valued recipe.

Simplest rule of thumb I can give for 10-14 is:

recipes unless they do something special : vendor
uncommon salvage : vendor
rare salvage : vendor
common salvage: if anyone is bidding list for 300, else vendor

There's no reason to buy set IOs at 10-14 unless you have more inf than sense (like me).

I can't give you a good answer without knowing what level you are, what AT and primary/secondary.

The reason is because you mention all the bonuses you can get. Bonuses are mostly worthless at lower levels. Frankenslotting will generally be far more beneficial.

I don't do the market games but I am careful about what I target to do (enemies/missions) for maximum benefit. I either go the insane IO route or the get enough inf to buy my DOs/SOs route depending on how much I plan to play and how fast I expect to level but even within that it depends greatly on the character.

For example, my pets do all the work for my mastermind so at the lower levels I want them having as much Accuracy as I can get for them. I boost my secondary set to help my pets keep me alive. None of this requires much in the way of IOs. But on a brute I want to keep my endurance bar going so I want Accuracy on the attacks and +Recovery and -End on the attacks and armors. Though now the temp power Recovey Serum is taking the place of that work.

Depends on the time stamps and current number for sale and bidding of the items but that could indicate if you are buying you can wait and get it for cheap (1, 5, 100) and you can sell for more but it would really depend on the timestamps and outstanding bids/listings.

I'd guess common or uncommon salvage that has 0 bidding and tons for sale with numbers like those and lacking the other two data points.

I never twink my lowbies. If anything I send my inf to my higher level characters to buy more stuff since they have more slots.

There is no way I get to 27 and cannot afford to slot level 30 SOs so instead I shall adjust your question to the following two with answers.

1. Imagine you were PLed to 27 and weren't going to twink, what would you slot and how would you afford it?
A: I would run to Mission Architecht and find an easy mission/arc to play and build up some tickets and random roll the 25-40 arcane commons and sell them in the market until I had enough to buy my level 30 SOs.

2. Imagine you rolled a new character. How would you play the game but build your finances?
A: This answer has a lifespan of 3 weeks since the merged market on August 17 will throw this into chaos.

heroes: I run my lowbie arc to level 5. I go to Kings Row and get my radio and run my 3 radio missions and the safeguard to get my raptor pack. I focus my attention on Hellions for arcane salvage drops like luck charms. I clear the hellions in the safeguard.

I check my salvage drops at the market and sell any where people are currently bidding. I could run some Mission Architect stuff to get tickets to take the random arcane salvage rolls to get quick inflluence.

villains: I run Kalinda's arc to 5. Head to Port Oakes and get my paper and run my 3 papers and then the mayhem to get my raptor pack. I run MA missions to level 10 or so and roll bronze until I get a KB prot and sell it in the market. Once that is done I return to mission arcs for merits.

If I don't have 10M by level 20 just playing the game with a few forays into MA to get tickets for random arcane salvage and bronze tickets it is very rare but I still always have enough to get my level 25 SOs at 22.

I can only speak for a few but we were thinking "Why hasn't Uber put that superdyne addict on ignore yet?"

No. Prestige Power Slide is from the Coh Collector's edition and it is not one of the vet ones.

The PvP recipes going for more than the 2B cap should show how pointless any cap would be but let's walk through a cap scenario.

2B cap - current status: Only a few PVP recipes meet or exceed this and are sold off market or have incredibly long waits in the market.

Let's lower it to 1B cap. All those previous PVP recipes will remain status quo with slightly longer lines of people waiting to get them at that price. Then they are taken off market and sold for their current prices any way.

Let's lower it to 500M cap. See PvP recipes above then add in those that go for 500M-1B currently getting lines and sold off market for their current prices any way.

As you continue to lower the cap to catch more recipes/enhancements you simply drive their sales off market and create longer lines in market.

Do they have unique pieces? Can a unique glove be worn on the foot? I'd say the variety of choices of IO enhancements into 2 varied power builds is very dissimilar to gear in a traditional MMO.

I think you are underestimating how varied two builds on a character can be in CoH versus WoW.

Yeah, I had them too. Castle, Posi, CuppaJo, Lighthouse...

I think I had one from Statesman too.

I almost wish something could break the stranglehold this game has on me but they just keep on giving me more fun stuff to do.

No kidding but I'd still like a clown nose and clown hair sticking out from the sides.

Marcian, there is no virtue in being normal. Please just be you. Normal is boring.

I deleted mine before the forum move. I am almost back up to 100.

Maybe NCSoft should add these questions to the cancelling query if they mention the words "purple" and "too long" in the freetext box.

How long did it take you to get to 50 with your most recent character?
a) a day
b) a week
c) a month
d) longer than a month
e) I don't have a 50 (skip next question)

How long have you played that 50 since getting to that level?
a) I haven't.
b) Less than 8 hours
c) more than 8 hours but less than 20
d) more than 20 hours but less than 100
e) more than 100 hours

If someone picks a-c on the first one and a-d on the second this popup:

"Congratulations! Your account has received the Veruca Salt badge."

Oh. I didn't know or I didn't remember that. That is worthy.

We also have the new mod12.

I would say it might be even lower than that.

People want to play in god mode.

People get fidgity after 2-3 minutes at the fast food drive thru.

People get antsy waiting for microwave popcorn.

We have way too many Verucas in the world or at least in the North American and Western Europe world.

It was the GMOTD when we logged in yesterday. /gmotd in game to read it

The anti-hoarding argument is that hoarding would raise prices so I am not sure how that is bunk.

It's gone the exact opposite for reasons. Easier to get to 50, more inf earned at 50, merits added in the place of random recipes at the end of TFs and Trials, etc.

You can store the recipes in email and when someone wants them you could email it to them or for even more ease of use you could craft them and store them in the SG for people.

If this normally honest person is encouraged to break the rules I question their true integrity. And risking getting their account stolen or credit card number misused for stuff in the game seems to be a bit foolish.

Or they decided to quit.

Or they think they know something.

Or their account got hacked. Ouch.

Or if enhancements not recipes, a SG got raided. Also ouch.

Anyway with market merging and reset on the 17th I think we could see really weird stuff for the next 4 weeks.