Tonality

I like the idea, but I'm having a hard time rationalizing a tailor in breakout for redside. The last thing I want to do during a jailbreak is ...

WAIT a minute!

Why not make the tailor part of the stop for the villain tutorial? You're in the orange prison jumpsuit, and part of the escape is to get out of that jumpsuit.

You can't spell doom without moo.

Have you considered what enemy types you are facing on your lowbie elec/elec brute?

Starting out, you are looking at very poor mitigation from electric melee, coupled with an armor currently that offers no means to recover health and no layered mitigation until you get powersink (and then it's only partial at certain difficulty levels).

In the teens, you encounter the circle of thorns, which if you start running into ghosts, you will be torn to shreds, due to electric armor's poor negative resistance. I would avoid that group in particular for a while.

Your brute will be squishy for quite some time without good corruptor/MM buffs. This is due to the late-blooming nature of your primary, coupled with a secondary that boasts excellent endurance management to boost the primary.

Once you hit the 30s, you'll be relying on lightning rod for your alpha. By teleporting in and knocking everyone down, you can reduce the massive alpha strike that decimates elec/elec/mu brutes often. Until then, it's going to be painful.

Until then, get on a team that has things that buff you.

Personally, I'd go with elec/elec/mu, but I wanted to let you know of possible options to go with and how they might work. Darkest Night certainly isn't to be used on every spawn, but it can be helpful if you run into something you know will give you trouble.

If you're looking for an AoE monster, Elec/Elec/Mu has a lot of potential with electric fences, ball lightning, lightning rod, chain induction, jacob's ladder, and thunderstrike.

I would suggest that some aspects of this guide may need to be held off depending on the impact of issue 16, as some of these new features may radically redefine droprates, and potentially the market.

Currently, flipping uncommon salvage is an excellent method for making inf starting out. This may change, but a player with under 30 million inf available can quickly double and later redouble that by simply flipping uncommon salvage. I do this with all my lowbies.

Learning to bid competitively is essential to flipping. There are cases where aggressive bidding to obtain temporary control of an item is possible, and this method can reap rewards quickly, but this usually dries up. However, there is typically a better way to bid by appearing innocuous.

Once a particular item has been identified and a determination has been made that a flipper is active, you are faced with a few choices:

1) The invader. This guarantees that you will get the item over your competitor, but also informs your competitor that there is another aggressive flipper. If your competition is active, you may quickly be engaged in a slowly escalating contest over who can outbid the other. If you have the time and patience, you may be able to win out.
2) The innocuous bid. This bid is intended to appear as if you aren't a flipper. So you won't be bidding a number like 65,413 for say unquenchable flame, but will bid 100,000, a nice round number. This number does not necessarily look too threatening to the flipper, yet guarantees your purchase of the item. If overdone, the flipper will see through your trick, but you may be able to easily skim off some profit when you resell that 100k item for 200k+.
3) The clone. If you want to enter into a market without alerting the flipper, you can choose to match the flipper's price. Likely, the flipper will never discover you have joined in on this, especially if this is a faster moving item. You will share the spoils with the current flipper, but you likely will not have to worry about altering your bid until you are discovered or a more aggressive flipper arrives.

There is an art to flipping, and brute force may work, but it negates the long-term viability of an item. I will refrain from naming the IO to avoid blowing my niche, which may still have some profit left to give.

Recently, the going rate of a level 50 IO recipe was slightly under 20 million. I saw that the crafted rate was consistently around 40 million, and that impatient buyers would even pay upwards of 50 million for the recipe alone. So, I decided to move in on this recipe.

I started out by investing about 800 million inf into this market, placing 40 bids of 20 million each across four characters. This number was a round number, typical of a common player. It did not appear that I was intentionally attempting to purchase large amounts of these IOs to craft or resell at a significant markup.

I was able to sustain this ruse for about one week before aggressive flippers moved in and began to drive up the price above 20 million. Currently, the aggressive flipper price is slightly over 25 million, negating my next innocuous bid choice, and I have chosen to abandon this IO until the price calms down.

In every one of these processes, the player is seeking to buy and sell over a longer period of time rather than a single playing session. Often bids are bought and sold overnight, allowing for a regular cycle of buying and selling. In all cases, the buyer must consider:

1) Profit margins
2) Frequency of sales (will your item move quickly enough to be worth it?)
3) Potential Competition

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