Yet Another #9

So today I mark my 9th character who hit 1B inf (or more). I have to say, bearing in mind I hardly think making lots of inf in this game takes a lot of brain power, this had to be the laziest, easiest 1B threshold I have hit so far. Part of that is that my L50 time has been post I16, with it's inf/foe increase for level 50s. Undeniably, luck has also smiled on me. Details follow the image, for those curious.

Here's my image. I apologize in advance, it's not fancy. I took it on the spot when I noticed I had crossed the threshold after clearing a scanner mish. (Click on the image for a full-size version. Inf is in my attribute monior, upper right.)



This character has been very lucky. Early on, I scored a purple drop during Halloween. I hoard purples I know I need soonish and sell ones I don't. I didn't need this one and scored about 250M for it. That eventually got me most of the IOs I wanted, barring a few LotG:Recharges. I did lots of content on this character and got around 1200 merits by 50, so I bought the LotGs outright with merits, saving cash for purples.

In the upper 40s, I got two, yes two Respec recipes on two consecutive days, both from foes on the streets of PI. I don't even spend a lot of time street sweeping. Each sold for around 180M. By the time I was 50 I was hovering around 400-600M, but I was buying set IOs and selling drops. I sold a few of LotGs for money, bought a couple of purples, and played a fair amount. Essentially zero marketeering.

What pushed me over the edge was this weekend's DXP, which is apparently triple inf for 50s. In the last few hours I was pushing 250k-300k inf per minute in simple stuff like PI Scanner missions. (I play this character on +2/x6/yes/no.)

Anyway, thanks for reading.

Grats, Uber.

GRATZ x9!

Go, go, DXP weekend. Three days later and I am now 15M short of the 2B cap.

About 300M of that was from defeating stuff and completing missions. The rest was selling stuff into the mighty price tailwind that resulted from 3x inf + lots of new 50s being churned out.

I played solo quite a lot on this level 50. (Something of an aside, but this is my standard m.o. for DXP weekends, as I prefer not to level past stuff on new characters.) I played mostly PI scanner mishes on +2/x6, using the rewards as an excuse to get the Safeguard badges. (I dropped the safeguards to x1 to ensure badge accrual, since x6 eats a lot of time.) Every 3-4 bosses was 1M inf.

I got something like 3 or 5 drops that sold for 10-15M crafted. I got a Numina's Heal which sold for 80M (!).

I also burned my remaining horde of merits (about 1000 - I've been running a couple of TFs a day since I got to 50) on high-value recipes. I looked at a few things, but settled on level 50 LotG:Recharge crafted IOs. Initially I listed a level 25, but it didn't sell all weekend, finally selling some time late last night. When I saw that 25s weren't where it was at, I switched to level 50s, which were being consumed at a really prodigious rate. My best sale was 180M inf (actually on a different character) - 810k inf/merit after market fees. Notably, this morning price on level 50s was already down to ~130M (and someone had bought my level 25).

Edit: Oh, and I got one purple, but I didn't sell it since I have a use for it on another character.

Grats Uber.

Made 1 billion yesterday on a new character yesterday myself (albeit, all from farming :X)

Belated gratz, uber.