peterpeter

Actually, the cooldown timer is another 7 years, so... yeah.

I've been here from the start, so I get all the vet rewards as soon as they come out. Even so, I generally disapprove of vet rewards out of pity for the poor noobs. But these rewards are SO awesome that I am too overwhelmed with selfish glee to spare a thought for anyone else. CAN'T WAIT. WANT NOW.

Thanks, but we can't invite people mid-TF. I don't mean I've been trying the TF over and over for 3 weeks. I mean I and my teammates have been engaged in one attempt for 3 weeks. We only play about 2 hours a week, and we spend half that time trying to remember which character to log in.

I have to say, my absolute favorite thing about the Incarnate system is that I can use shards to craft things without having to run any specific TF.

Edit: And my least favorite thing about the new forums is that the tongue sticking out smiley looks weird. Too happy.

Sam, I have been reading your posts for many years now, and though we've never met, or even corresponded, I've gotten kind of fond of you. It makes me a very sad panda to see you throw away money like that because of impatience.

Please, just once, as an experiment, try this one thing: the next time you're all done playing for the day and you're about to log out, head over to the market. Put in a bid for 10 common IO's. Not the recipes: the already crafted ones. Whatever kind you want. Accuracy? Healing? Whatever. Any level you want, except 50. How about 45? 45 is nice. Almost the same bonus as a 50, much better than an SO, but much cheaper than a 50. Put in the bid for, say, 151,000 inf. Maybe the last 5 are all double or triple that. Maybe it would take a million or ten to buy one right now. But try putting in a bid for 151k. Or maybe less. How about either 151k or 1/2 the lowest price in the last 5, whichever is lower. Then log out.

The next day when you log in, maybe you'll have bought some. Maybe not. But no harm in trying, right? And if it turns out that you can buy a whole stack of them for that price, half the price that people were paying last night, or even lower, well... that's the value of patience. And you didn't even have to be patient! Ten seconds before logging out, ten seconds after logging in... there's no waiting at all! During the in-between time you weren't waiting; you were sleeping, or eating, or doing whatever it is you do with your life.

Now hopefully, if you had the same luck that I usually do, then you now have a relatively painless way to get what you want for a tiny fraction of what you were paying before. Of course, it might turn out that you didn't actually need a stack of those enhancements. In that case, you might as well get rid of them. Just sell them all for the same price you paid when you bought them. Then go play. Have fun. Ignore the market. If you're lucky, they'll all sell while you're doing other things. By the time you get back to the market, you might discover that the ten enhancements you listed for 151k have sold for 200k or 250k each. Or maybe not. And maybe the whole experiment will be so boring and awful that you'll never want to do it again. That's fine. Just try it, once, as a favor to me. And I'll tell you what, if you lose money on the deal, let me know. I'll email it to you, no worries.

What do you say? You don't really want me to be a sad, sad panda, do you?

Does it actually do a mag 1 disorient? That would be something at least. If you're running oppressive gloom it could bump the stun up from minion to Lt, right? That's... better than I thought. Still not much.

Oh right. I was thinking triumphant insult. As far as I know (and I just double-checked Paragonwiki) that one is pure dead weight.

Ha! I'm not completely crazy! So can we still do that, or did they change something to block it? I seem to remember people with HO's being unhappy, but like I said, I didn't have any to slot anyhow, so I didn't pay much attention.

I thought the devs did describe that as an exploit, at least where HO's were concerned, a few years ago. I seem to recall that they did something to limit our ability to slot HO's in ways they didn't like... but I didn't have enough HO's at the time to worry about it. So I guess it was probably more like 4 years ago.

I'm not sure Black Scorpion will give you the patron arc if you're not a true villain. I haven't tried it myself.

Oh, let's not sacrifice the goat! Maybe a chicken. We like the goat right where he is.

As for the OP, another way to look at it is this: if an item is so terribly expensive, then there are probably lots of bids out there, and zero for sale. In that case, some of those outstanding bids might well be fore as much or more than the last 5 prices. In that case, it doesn't matter what you list the item for. 1 inf or 10 inf or 50 million inf. Anything less than the going rate will result in the item selling instantly for the going rate. You can't force prices down when the buyers are forcing them up.

One of the odd asymmetries of our market is that the seller cannot force the buyer to pay more than they bid, but the buyer can force the seller to take more than they asked for.