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And even back before the SSK system, if you didn't exemp down and ran it totally grey, you still got the temp power from stopping the robbery. The weapons raid temp power, on the other hand, required everything in the mission to be minimum green. Heck, considering you can hold a safeguard indefinitely, I will go as far as to say that it still requires everything to be at least green, since it is quite possible to still do a safeguard long after it has turned grey.

I think Azuria at one time had a report by some mystic who was heavy into market research, that put forth an interesting theory about why Endurance Mod recipes are so valuable. Unfortunately, the report got stolen from the MAGI vault not too long after.

Also, I would be for this addition to the UI, for the record. But generally, if I see the recipe in question is selling in at least the 5 digit range, then it is most likely worth listing. And even moreso, it is worth checking to see if the crafted enhancer is worth putting up (provided it doesn't require an overpriced piece of salvage that would otherwise cause you to take a loss.)

Just in the very off chance that your question is actually serious (and in the not so off chance that some newbie reading this may not be aware of this phenomenon), allow me to educate here.


Here is Exhibit A, a crafting table showing how much one can expect to pay for a level 45 Endurance Modification recipe:



And now, class, we make a little field trip to Wentworth's for Exhibit B...



In this test, I brought up the same recipe and placed a bid at the price I would otherwise be able to purchase said recipe at an invention table.

Now, take note of what happened. Of the 131 that were up for sale, I successfully purchased none of them at the crafting table price. And though I am unwilling to spend my hard earned inf to prove my theory, it is a good bet that if one were to then do the bid creep, one would probably still fail to purchase many of those until the bid got up near what the highest of the last five show, and possibly even higher. Some may slip through at around the 200K point, but it is highly likely that the majority are listed at 300K or more.

Face it, going any amount higher than the table price is foolish. Claiming convenience is incorrect even. After all, to then craft the recipe into an enhancement, you should still need to get to an invention table. And at that point, you may as well wait and just purchase directly for the table price.


Thank you for your time. There will be a pop quiz on this after the break.

If you consider level 5 a sufficiently higher level, then that is fully correct.

The first Elite Boss you may end up encountering may be either Frostfire (heroes), or Lt. Blechley (villains), both of whom it is possible to get as early as 5. AVs start showing as early as 15 (Nocturne for heroes, and Dr. Aeon for villains. At least I think Aeon in Brass's arc can spawn as an AV if the difficulty settings are high enough and you have a full team...)

Ha! My Plants/Energy Dominator is strutting around with 19 points of KB protection. 15 of those points were simply incidental in his quest for perma-dom (5 sets of Kinetic Crash), the last 4 are the Karma in Combat Jumping which I gave him for when he exemps far enough down to lose the K-Crash bonuses).

And once he does finally achieve perma-dom, that will add an additional significant amount of protection (can't remember what the KB protection mag is on domination at the moment though).

So yeah, That Nemi staff is not impossible to protect against by any definition.


Oh, and the OP was asking about the Nemesis Staff that the Fake Nemesis bots use, not the vet reward and temp power versions. The Fake Nemi staff is 9 points of KB, as was stated earlier, not 18.7.

Aw, Belgium. I always thought it was a sperm whale, not a blue whale.

Best twist on this stale old joke ever. Bravo. Bravo.

Definitely not a MUD or browser MMO.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eternal_lands

It is a full-fledged MMORPG for Linux, FreeBSD, Windows, and OS X.

Fixed. I can solemnly attest to this fact, as me and my usual duoing partner's first level 50 villains were a Fire/Dark Corruptor duo. They turned the sewers, caves and Orenbega into Murderworld on their rampage to 50.

It is perfectly acceptable to say WoW here. That said, if comparing game populations, it is best to toss out the extremes and compare everything that is neither WoW nor whatever the lowest population game is as well (Eternal Lands perhaps). That gives you a better idea of where this game stands in comparison to the others.

There, I knew that statistics class I had to take years ago would be useful for something some day.

Really? I'm not 100% sure on that.

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Still, since you responded first, I hereby award you 5 Neener Points(tm).