Need some help getting purples...

Don't we all? Ha!

Really though, I want to purple out my Widow. I can't afford the prices on the market right now (I'm not complaining, I just don't have the patience to do the marketeer stuff), so I'm really relying on drops, or those lucky merit rolls where I get an LoTG that I can pawn for ~100mill.

Where are some good places or missions for me to look for purple drops? I have my Notoriety set on 4 so I get bigger spawns, and my widow is at 50 so I really don't need a team. I've been mowing through minions, lt's and a boss every now and then, but I am really having no luck. I need a good mission or area that has a crap ton of bosses and lt's, but doesn't require a 6 man team or anything.

I do sell the recipes I receive, but unless it is something really good I generally just price it at 1,111 influence and hope for the best.

I know you guys don't want to share your really top secret places, and I don't blame you. But if you have any second rate, or even third rate places, please shoot me a PM and help me out. I love my widow as is (completely IO'd), but I need MOAR POWAA!! Thanks!

There are a lot of bosses in the RWZ and I know people farm the Cim wall but the bottom line is it is just stupid luck. Good luck. Personally I am in make inf mode and buy them at this point.

You'd probably want to get missions with loads of minions instead of bosses because purple recipes only drop from minions. Cimerora wall is nice for solo-minion bashing.

As the others have said, minions are better than bosses for purples. The drop rate is around 1 in 1600 minions so you'll have to keep at it.

Good luck.

I think others have covered the basics. The only thing I'd add is to hold off buying any on the market until post-I16. Hopefully the new difficulty settings will result in a higher number of purples being produced with consequently lowered prices.

Try to get on an itf thats a great way to get purples, or at least for me all but one of the purples that have dropped for me are from itf's

Check the prices of the crafted IO's (and how many a day sell...) before you sell those recipes. If you make 3 million extra on every 3rd IO, that'll add up in a hurry. If you're generating the volume, you might as well make the money.

Lots of good advice from everyone else.

Pick missions you can tear through. Difficulty 2 is probably best for this: more enemies, and easier enemies. Level equivalent doesn't mean anything for purples: a -2 minion has the same chance to drop one as a +4 minion, so over time, you'll get more with easier enemies.

Put any IO's you don't use onto the market, along with salvage. If they don't sell after a few days, pull 'em and vendor 'em. I actually crafted any common IOs I found with the salvage that dropped. After a while, I bought the level 45 versions and crafted them too. It's an easy way to get the 45-50 memorization badges. I know you didn't want to market much, but once you have the memorization badges, you can craft from what salvage you have, and generally make a lot of INF doing it.

My farm spot redside is deep in the Fab, in Grandville. Lots of Arachnos and Crey minions, with Lt's and bosses scattered in. Bosses may not be the best bet for purples, but they do give a lot of INF per kill, and have a very tiny chance to drop TF/Trial recipes.

One decent idea if you can, is revisit your 40-45 contacts. See if you can find a decent farm mission at level 45. If you can, crank the difficulty to 5, and farm the nice level 47's. Donig this, you won't get level 50 set Io's, but you should be able to clear a map fairly quickly, and volume is what you need for purple drops.

to echo an inf making tip many others have posted here over the years, check the recipe/crafted price disparity for your set IO drops.

I'm lazy so I mostly just flip stuff, but I've started playing my long-retired AR/Dev blaster again, with an eye toward kitting him out with the l337 s37s when he caps out. As a pre-inventions character he was poor as dirt when I started so I've been exercising all avenues of wealthbuilding to get him jumpstarted.

His main earner so far has been crafted set IOs generated from tickets or drops. The disparity between recipe and crafted IO can be truly staggering. Turnover is appreciably slower, but if it's something people want it usually sells in a few days and the higher price keeps the per-slot profit high.

He started off with a few million after I respec'ed him and cleaned out his slots. Playing him off and on and being patient I got him frankenslotted while building his bankroll up to around 30 million. Now that his slotting is taken care of the inf is rolling in- crafting recipes that are going for 50k to a few million and selling them for 2-20 million has him closing in on 100 million. By the time he hits 50 he should have enough to finance his dream build.