Who puts up low level recipes?
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AgentMountaineer,
Posted on: 2009-06-14 19:24 in The Market and Inventions
Another couple of questions to couple with the OP: What is the average range for buying recipes and IOs when you're working on getting sets? Do you just buy to frankenslot or do you go for the set bonuses?
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Another couple of questions to couple with the OP: What is the average range for buying recipes and IOs when you're working on getting sets? Do you just buy to frankenslot or do you go for the set bonuses?
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I don't really work on set bonuses until my characters are in their 30s, early 40s. At that point that's when I have enough slots to 5-6 slot powers to get the some of the better set bonuses like +rech and +def. I frankenslot before then.
Frankenslotting works great. Buy the cheapest IO recipe that has the characteristics I want. Mix and match and get 6 slots worth of performance out of 4 slots. Very worthwhile. Not as good as a fully IO'ed character with lots of set bonuses, but better than a comparatively SO'ed character at the same level. I'll start frankenslotting my characters as early as level 15. I skip DOs almost completely.
If you're not flipping or making generic IOs or anything it makes sense.
At that level you'll have a pocketful of fairly nice salvage eg Luck Charms that are worth dropping at the market, and you can either:
1) delete the recipes
2) put them up for sale and get something
3) make a detour to the store
If you're running at a fast pace through the teens and want to keep your shopping stops brief, I guess 2) makes most sense.
I do, if there aren't already 10+ recipes available for sale. I let them sit there for weeks. 
I only bother with the uniques or KB IOs at low levels. Anything else is vendor fodder.
I put them up, just in case someone wants them. If they sit for more than a couple of days, I vendor them, more so that I can put up other stuff, than because I don't want them up there.
I'll tend to put them up rather than out right deleting them. Dont want to spend the time running to Vendor, and can sometimes get pocket inf from them.
Plus I know my low level toons will snap some up to vendor to start thier bankroll.
I dont mind other toons getting profit or use from stuff that even if I vendor, will only get my little amount thats not worth the energy.
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If they sit there for a couple of logins, then I kill them.
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Since I myself use such recipes all the time, I post most everything for a certain time period (3-7 days, depending on slot clog). After they've had their moment in the sun, they get vended.
Lousy sleep and confuse pieces are most likely to get immediately vendored, though.
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Depends on the character. I only play the market hard on about four characters; everyone else has plenty of time and slots to leave things up for a while. It's always kind of disappointing to me when something has to get pulled and deleted, but that isn't usually till level 30-something. So the low-level stuff can stay up and visible for a week to a year, depending.
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I list just about everything I get, recipes and salvage alike, for 5 inf before 50. Even at 5 inf alot of stuff will sit there for weels or months.
I put them up if they aren't something I want and there aren't alread many up for sale and no one bidding with a last 5 average of 11 (or some other pathetically low amount).
Basically if there is a chance it will sell soon.
total kick to the gut
This is like having Ra's Al Ghul show up at your birthday party.
I try and sell it, but most of the time, I will come back and need to slot space and then vender / delete the repice
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I give everything a chance to sell, and a lot of it does.
If it's still sitting there after a couple of days, I'll delete it.
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I usually just delete them.
Can you trade recipes directly between two players? I know you can't "trade" it via base storage (WHICH SUCKS!) but if you can trade directly, I'd be able to post a lot more lowbie stuff via alts on my second account.
I think that if people started posting more lowbie stuff and the lowbie market started picking up, it'd be a pump-priming kind of deal. I think the lowbie market is just dead because "everyone" thinks "nobody" uses it. I love frankenslotting out my lowbies for dirt cheap! I got a L25 4-way orange recipe for 5,000 inf yesterday! Awesome!
On a frequently played character, I vend or delete depending on how close I am to the vendor. On characters that I don't log in to for weeks at a time, I list them for 1 inf, and delete them if they are still there next time I log in.
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You can't trade recipes, but you can craft it into an enhancement and store the enhancement in your base bins. The lack of recipe storage has not been a big problem for me.
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You can't trade recipes, but you can craft it into an enhancement and store the enhancement in your base bins. The lack of recipe storage has not been a big problem for me.
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Crafting a low level crappy enhancement, only to delete it if it doesn't sell in two weeks seems like an awful waste of time and money. I now update my stance on why there's no low-level IO market activity. It's because you can't trade recipes.
May I suggest going to check out the Black Market for the price of a level 22 call of the sand man acc/end recipe
Low levels are awesome for transfering inf (was villainside EU to villainside US).
You can't trade recipes directly between two characters on the same account. You can pass off a recipe to someone [can you still do that with temp accounts or is that one of the things they disabled? It is possible, though not necessarily simple, to run two copies of the game on one computer] and have them pass it back to your alt.
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This wasn't the same account.
EU accounts and US accounts are completely seperate.
While the Black Market and Wentworth servers are global.
Read the post again...the money was traded from EU side to US side.
Hence different accounts.
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I do, if there aren't already 10+ recipes available for sale. I let them sit there for weeks.
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That's what I do. If there are none for sale, at least. If there are, I just dump them.
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You can't trade recipes directly between two characters on the same account. You can pass off a recipe to someone [can you still do that with temp accounts or is that one of the things they disabled? It is possible, though not necessarily simple, to run two copies of the game on one computer] and have them pass it back to your alt.
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Yes you can traide between 2 different accounts, I do this all of the time. Running the game twice on the same machine, possible, easyer to do if you use windowed mode, get logged in on one account then start the 2nd one because the updated makes sure it is the only one running.
I dont use temp accounts so I dont know, but my guess its a lvl restriction and # of recipes.
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I'd rather use my market slots to flip salvage. 
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If we're talking about market slot efficiency, I'd question wasting a slot on flipping salvage too. It's all a matter of degree. *shrugs*
Also, some of us have "retired" and are giving back, as it were. I don't like vendoring stuff since it deleted the resource from the game. So I'll put up worthless stuff for 1 inf to see anyone has a use for it (or more likely craft it and stick it in the SG bin, tho ours are mostly full).
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I'm actually curious about the folks who put up on the market stuff like level 18 dmg/end Bruising Blows, level 23 acc/dmg focused smites or the level 32 acc/dmg ruins.
I mean I'm rather thankful that they're on the market, and very cheap; however, I don't think I'd have the patience to put that stuff on the market. I'd rather use my market slots to flip salvage.
The few times I've tried to put low level (and useful stuff) on the market, they stay there for weeks...even if I list them as low as 10 influence. Does no one frankenslot stuff out at low levels like I do? I mean I like the fact 2 level 15 acc/dmg IOs yield better results than a level 15 accuracy IO and damage IO separately. Yet personally, I'd never put a level 15 IO recipe on the market...margin is too low and it ties up a market slot.
I guess I'm just curious as to who puts this stuff out there? And who has the patience to have their market slots filled up for days/weeks at a time?
By the way, as of this writing, I have a level 25 dmg/rech Scirocco's Dervish, a level 24 acc/heal/rech Theft of Essence and a level 29 acc/dmg Touch of Death all on the market, all looking for a good home...all listed at 100 inf, all of which have sat in one of my slots for 7+ days.