Purple's

...being in the same post as this:

...to be kinda funny.

We'll tell you as soon as we figure out why you think you have to give up eating, sleeping, and other hobbies in order to make that kind of inf.

That would be the buyers.

If you want to run normal stuff that the devs expect people to run ala radio mishes and TFs and whatnot, SO'd DM/Shield scrapper will do fine. If on the opther hand you want to solo AVs, cut down pylons by yerself and tell a farm group that you'll take this side of the map and they can have the other half, and then take your side and then go help them, then you'll need Sets and expensive crap like that.

This right here is where you lose any credibility you might have had.

I have been playing for years as well, but I only have 3 level 50s, I find it very unfair that you have 14.


Wait no I don't; I made a choice to play my way and you made a choice to play yours.

The funny thing is if your goal was to "IO out" your toons the raw inf to do so is made while you are sleeping and eating.

the only value in 'bind on pickup' is to make something LESS AVAILABLE.
That's its whole point.
A dev team who wanted players to be able to choose their reward would not be amenable to such a system.

Your "ideas" are so laughable I'm surprised you haven't melted away from the sheer embarrassment of mumbling them in public.

News flash:

Farming is playing the game.

Either you are just complaining to exercise your lungs, or you are willing to go slightly out of your way to get purples (plural.)

I'm going to assume that you actually want purples, and you're willing to put twenty hours of your life into getting a few sets. Considering how much you play, twenty hours isn't much. So you're mostly going to have to buy them in that time frame (in twenty hours,as you know, you will maybe see ONE purple drop.) So you're going to have to make money in the market. Here's how to start.

Look at a set you DO have slotted that you like. I'm going to say Positron's Blast and then I'm going to look up the numbers. Now look at the raw cost of the recipes FOR THE TOP LEVEL, and the cost for the ingredients. Some of them won't make you any profit, but some of them may. When you do this, don't use positron's blast because I'm shining a spotlight on it RIGHT NOW. If you need ideas: Red Fortune, Aegis, Luck of the Gambler (NOT the global recharge), Numina's (NOT the unique), Impervium Armor at level 40, and so forth. Pick a set, one set.

The first time you do this it will probably take you a half hour.

Setting level range to 50-50, "all" ...

Positron's Blast Acc/Dam, 5 million for the recipe, one Prophecy (1 million), half a million for crafting, it's going to cost you between 6.5 and, say, 7 million to craft this. Wents takes 10% so if you sell for less than 7.77 million you're losing money.

Posi, Acc/Dam crafted, selling for 5 million. Obviously, no money in that.

Acc/dam/end, prices are all over the place for both the recipe and the crafted. There's money in there, but not guaranteed money.

Posi Dam/End, 1.6 million for the recipe, 9-10 million for the crafted. Looks pretty good. You could pay 2 million for the recipe, sell for 8 million and still make around 4-5 million no matter WHAT kinda crazy prices you pay for salvage. And if you put it up for 8.1 million, you will still get paid 9 or 10. Lil' secret for you there.

So you put up bids for two Dam/End at 2 or 2.1 million, you put up bids for two Chronal Skips at 1.2 million ("last five" are 2million, but you can generally get rare salvage for just about a million unless I16 produces some long-lasting effect) and bids up for the uncommon and common salvage, doesn't matter what you pay.

Then the magic part: Logging off or going to do something else.

When you next log on, you should have most if not all of your ingredients. I recommend starting about three different projects in case they don't all work.

Craft them, list BELOW market price (so if it's selling for 10 million, list for 7.1 or 8.1) and go find another niche. Ten of the same thing is a great way to clog the market, clog your market slots and get frustrated. Repeating yourself too much is a good way to let Darwin have a shot at your non-evolving financial schemes.

So that's eventually 8 million profit. If they don't sell over the next couple days, leave them over the weekend. If they don't sell over the weekend (let's say someone blabs your secret niche all over the market forum) CONSIDER repricing them, breaking even, and selling something else.

Note that you are paying MORE than market rates for the recipes, and selling for LESS Than market rates on the crafted. You should be moving stuff rapidly.

Once you've done this on about ten things, made fifty million or so, you should be comfortable enough to go on to other things. Bigger things.

For instance, you can often with patience buy a purple for- I've only done this a couple times, it stresses my nerves- 180 million and sell it for 260 million to someone with less patience than you. I don't know what current purple prices are, exactly, but if you do that, you lose 26 million to market fees, 600K to crafting costs, 2.4 million or so to salvage and clear somewhere around 49 million profit.

If you don't want to go out of your way to get purples, you will lose out to the people who want them more than you do.

FTR, I don't TO/DO/SO my DM/SD scrapper, nor does she have Hamis and purples, standard IO sets only, and she is more than capable of taking on an AV solo, TYVM.

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Actually, it started with merits. A lot of people started exemping down to farm merits in flashbacks, TFs, etc., and that meant less people playing in the 50 range, so prices on purples started to go up.

Then AE came along and made the situation a whole lot worse.

+rep to counteract the burning stupidity.

Thanks, partner.