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Thanks for the write-up Fulmens. I'm going to have to adjust some of my market strategies based on what you've said.

Personally, I prefer vendoring recipes from the market for this. Not so much when you have a recipe inventory of 4, but once you get to about 10, it's great for immediate money in the 400k range - and you can be in control of how quickly your items sell, if not how quickly you can buy them...

Originally Posted by Fulmens The plural of anecdote is not data.

I do a bit of both and in general I think you're correct that the recipes thing is a little more profitable (and importantly requires less starting capital than flipping). The downside is it requires more time spent at WWs since the range of vendorable recipes is a lot larger than the list of salvage than can be profitably flipped.

The other thing to keep in mind is that flipping salvage is a good way to get the first few badges notably Scrounger and Merchant for more salvage storage and an extra market slot.

I don't prefer recipe vendoring at all. At one point in time I did, but that was before I started flipping salvage regularly.

Common salvage fluctuates a great deal, and especially blueside, it has had a remarkable tendency to stay predictable over the long haul (I don't know about during the AE days, because I skipped that silliness).

It generates market slots very quickly and all I have to do is make one stop into WWs, flip them and continue playing. It takes no time constantly shuffling through recipes and no travel time to and from vendors, which can get pretty tedious when you can only move a handful of recipes at a time. With salvage, I'm only limited by market slots.

Once you flip the first couple of pieces it snowballs very quickly into the millions after a single good day. In no time at all you can move into flipping rare salvage, and then the sky is the limit after that.

A very good point. I hadn't considered that aspect...

Originally Posted by Fulmens The plural of anecdote is not data.

Basically Assault Rifle and Archery are the two primaries with the best AoEs (primarily because their T9 has a 60second recharge and no crash). Mental Manipulation adds Psychic Scream as an additional strong AoE as well as several other useful powers.

Archery tends to be favored over Assault Rifle for farming since it has Aim and RoA is a bit easier to line up than FA in outdoor maps. The only real advantage of AR over Archery is Flamethrower but the fact that it's a DoT tends to be offputting for farmers.

Gah I feel bad I'm pushing the derail button too hard now - but I do have a 50 Archery/Devices blaster, so I'm good with that part, I was curious as to why pairing it with Mental was such a good move.

I'll do my own poking around re: Mental right now, let's not derail this any more than I already have, Apologies.

Because Mental has Psychic Scream (cone AOE) and Psychic Shockwave (PBAOE) to add to the AOE of Archery or AR. It also has Drain Psyche, to cut way, way down on health/endurance downtime.

Originally Posted by Dispari I don't know why Dink thinks she's not as sexy as Jay was. In 5 posts she's already upstaged his entire career.

You fail so much you almost come back around the far side of correctness!

Kidding! Kidding!

Actually, it's not binary. You can play the markets AND farm as well.

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I'm judging by the OP's reg date, he probably doesn't know much of what you're saying here. I know I barely understand it ...

Aaand; there's a special subset to a number of these:

LIMITED TIME AVAILABILITY: A couple of our yearly events have things that can only be obtained for the duration of the event. Often, during the event in question, market prices will plummet. But the further you get from that event, and the more reason people have to use the things, the higher the price will go.

Halloween salvage; not as good an investment as it used to be, as there's about 2k units each on the blue side market right now. Prices drop like a rock around Halloween, and tend to spike during periods where people make new alts (2x XP, issue releases that include new/proliferated powersets). However, as these are easily stored in supergroups for free use, or just in an alt's salvage; it's not exactly hard to come by in the off season anymore.

Winter event; although you may consider doing the same with the Candy Cane salvage, this is a more long term investment, because with the exception of certain rare dev events, the ski chalet is closed for most of the year, and you can't use the candy canes unless the chalet is open. Although I did find that the salvage had a decent price spike about a month or so before the event started (people loading up the salvage to get all the shinnies as soon as the chalet opens, I guess).

Winter event profiting is mainly in redeeming the candy canes for stacks of Winter's Gift recipes. During the event I paid at most 77,000 per candy cane (often, much less). each recipe costs 40 salvage (3,080,000inf per recipe). Currently, at barely a week since the event ended, those recipes are going for 5-10 million each. And the further we get from the event, the fewer of them on the market, and higher prices. I somewhat expect a spike around the next 2x XP, or the Going Rogue expansion. As people make new alts and builds to fill with IO sets.