The_Masque

Hi Mystic,

Yeah I've had weird work hours this week being on call. I actually have put one code aside for you, so when I said 1 code, I didn't mean I was going to give away the one I promised to you.


I should be around late tonight and on various times this weekend I will send you a pm when I'm on.

If you can pay 20 to 40 million for a purple you have the resources to do this. There are still a lot of recipes and even more crafted IOs still out there for less than 50 mill each. I grabed what I thought I would need stashed it away.

As Voodoo stated he (and others) have purples stored perhaps they aren't the exact ones they need though this gives them the opportunity to try to get those and if nothing else if they get a desirable one they can offer to trade it for the one they need versus it just sitting there collecting dust.


Cy- prices have dropped a lot on those IOs

Glad armor which at one time was selling for 3.5 bill off market now sells pretty commonly in the market forums for 2 billion.

LoTGs were up to 250 million at one point and the last I checked they were down to 100?

Numinas were just selling at 50 million thats down from 120.

Yes flux, demand is what is driving the current prices of purples high, well that and there are people who flip purples for profit, they may set outstanding bids for recipes at 500 million and craft and sell the same ios at 700 million.

As far as demand- I believe the demand will go down for these very expensive purples, prior to this post by posi, I had a lot of outstanding bids on various purples (mostly damage) because my with my recent characters I had seriously depleted my stock. I was bidding about 600 mill per purple (which was still 50-100 less than the buy it now price). With this news I removed all my bids from the market and used that inf to buy sleep/confuse/stun purples.

As far as the PvP IO market- yes the big three are going to take a big hit. Glad armor 3% def, Sheild wall 3% resist, and pan unique are all going to drop in 'value' if you look at the market the prices for the cheapest recipe in these sets (usually end/recharge) have in many cases doubled in price if not tripled. I think people are buying them to use to convert (with 3 tokens) to new IO in the same set. This isn't a bad idea I mean you are taking an IO that was selling for 20 million and you have in the case of pan's(if its totally random and not weighted):

1:5 chance of getting an IO that is currently selling for 2 billion(unique), 1:5 chance of getting an IO that sells for about 1.8-2 billion (heal)
1:5 chance of getting an IO that sells for 1-1.5 billion (h/e/r)
1:5 chance of getting an IO that sells for 100 million (h/r) and (h/e)

however, now prices on those same e/r pans have shot up 500% to 100 million.

This is what I would expect to see happen with purples- that the cheap sets, the ones that people have been selling for 5-20 million (uncrafted) people will craft and try to convert, I mean honestly I don't see why you wouldn't since the 'value' can only increase than sell whatever they end up with.

My demand for purples dropped considerably. Actually after yesterday I am hopeful that I will not have to buy another purple ever. So my demand has dropped to 0 and you are correct I do not plan on putting any of them back on the market so I am not contributing to the supply at all, however, that may change as well. I have been hording PvP IOs since the day they were released and only recently did I start selling them, it wasn't that the demand was high, if anything the 'value' of these IOs are much lower than they had been historically but I just didn't need them. The reason being I am just not making new characters like I had been.

Incarnate content has pretty much killed alt-itis (for me) I can no longer make a charater level it to 50, IO it and accolade it, in the span of lets say a couple of weeks. Now it takes much longer if I want to get all of its incarnate powers and grind enough threads/shards/components to make it a top notch character for level 50 content. Its not even that you can get t3 or t4 on each power and call it good. Now there are new powers in each slot that get released which are in many cases better than the original, so again, dust off all the characters and run them through more content.




tl;dr version:

I don't expect purples to drop to 20 million. I expect there to be a leveling in prices where the damage aren't selling for 6,7, 800 million and the cheapest aren't being given away for 20-60million.

Super expensive PvP IOs will be hit the hardest.

Incarnates killed alt-itis.

Are you kidding me? The first thing I did was buy 200 cheap purples at <50 mill a pop.

Now I just have to start getting A-merits to trade in for a stack of 10 IO converters.

Obviously the fastest way is using Accelerated Experience (or..AE) with npcs designed to be the weakest against your types of attacks and with their attacks geared to be weak against your type of def/resistance.

However, if this type of experience obtainment is against your play style or you just object to it, I would suggest the following:

Level 1-15: DFB- Try to run it with a full team of 8, as mentioned above, you will get better xp. This should only take you 3 runs so maybe at most 45-75 mins? I wouldn't waste any boosts for at this time, the xp is rolling in fast enough.

Level 15-30: This xp zone will probably give you the most trouble. You won't have a lot of attacks to just mow through mobs and gobble up xp. I would suggest you use your xp boosters for this zone of xp. A synapse will give you a few levels but your xp/min might be slowed by travel time from door to door and zones. I might suggest you do radios/papers because they are in the same zone.

Level 30-35: Katie Hannon- (assuming you are blueside of course) 10 AVs in the first mission... yes please! If you are with a group just trying to get xp, you could always just keep running that first mission then quit the trial and reset.

Level 35-50: WOAH thats a huge jump, nah not really thats the ITF. Just broadcast a "Buzzsaw shard farming ITF" set it to +2, lets not be greedy and run these back to back. The 50's who come (hopefully) may have judgements and destinys to buff the team and the xp should roll in pretty fast.

GL man, its for a good cause.

If I am a winner, I permit NC Interactive, Inc. and NCsoft Europe Limited to use my name, likeness, photograph, hometown, and any comments that I may make about myself or this contest that I provide for advertising and promotional activities. I also certify that I am at least 13 years of age and am eligible to participate in this contest.

Couple of things about this Philly. You are agreeing with someone who says they hate exalted (exiled) because of the "name-campers". I wouldn't paint the whole server in that light. Yeah there were people who logged in as soon as it went live and took some more active forumite's names and tried to sell them. That was a very crappy thing to do, but that has nothing to do with the actual server itself.

As far as saying it was a pvper who took your name, idk, that kind of disapoints me because you are really casting an unfair light on pvpers in general. It would have been sufficent to say "a player".


(The comment isn't directed at you philly, but more just a general statement):
This tread really isn't about selling "someone's" name though, because
annihilius is just offering up names that he had gotten. So I don't think people who are comparing him to the people who tried to sell names of known players are really comparing apples to apples.

I've been able to work out trades for 3 of the codes so far-

Typically its been about 3 billion. I'm actually more interested in getting purple IOs. Damages would be great rather then inf, though.

Sending you a tell in game now.

I guess my initial post may have been a bit confusing. I thought I made it clear that I was looking for items I could use as prizes for upcoming pvp events (ie... ios, recipes, inf).

I've run some large scale intro to pvp events for the last 2 years which I usually end up helping people with builds so my current funds sets aside for these type of events has been depleted.

That is actually the very same reason I finally started selling my PvP IOs in a thread on this forum as well.

I re-read my initial post to see where someone might misread what I wrote and I my use of the word market may have been confusing if not an in-proper use of the word.

I meant market as is the opportunity to buy or sell an item- the demand of said item.

Rather then market in the sense of where I could sell these items such as ebay or such.


So again, sorry for any confusion.

will do.

I thought I was driving up your bids! Hmm, guess this auction thing really works.

If you want to join PERC you should contact @madame pistacio or @arkyaeon, they are the current 1st and 2nd chair. They can direct you on how to join this player run group.

If you just want to donate time/inf/ios/recipes. You can email them to either of those two as well. I'd probably start with a message to make sure their email has space.