I guess I'm a conformist

I was finally able to hit 1 Billion Inf on my rarely played Henchmen-less Mastermind. It was a long road to get to this point.

This character made its first multi-millions vendoring Common Range IOs as a single digit level character dodging the level 20s in Sharkhead running back and forth between the Market and the Quartermaster. Eventually the tedium got to me and I started to experiment with crafting Set IOs to sell.

I found a small niche to experiment with and was really surprised when I hit 100 Million Inf. It took a while, but it was a major milestone for me. I've never held more than 40 or so million on any character before and those were pre-Market bank rolls. There was a long pause after this as I used half of it to outfit my Brute who was nearing 50 at the time. Nothing fancy, just got the Sets that I've found that I liked. I used most of the rest to get spares of these Sets to stock my Base for the future.

After seeing the rest of you, especially the snot-nosed newbies, showing off their Billionaires, I figured it was time to get off my butt and prove that I had it in me too. I tried several niches over several months and eventually settled on one. I didn't get any big lottery wins, but I was able to move inventory fairly consistantly and the cost of the rare salvage wasn't cutting too much into my profits. I wasn't playing this character so I had to buy everything.

Now that I've achieved my goal, I'll probably just sell out what I have on hand and pass the niche to another character to work. As it happens, I have two other characters closing in on their first Billion too. If luck holds out, perhaps they can hit it this month or next.

Don't appreciate the snot-nosed newbies line. I've only played for seven months and still don't know crap.

Grats.

A petless MM?! You are NOT a conformist. You shall now take the non-conformists' oath.

Repeat after me.
"I promise to be different."
"I promise to be unique."
"I promise not to repeat things other people say."

Gratz on billion. Now splurge for some pets, a monocle and a top hat.

I imagine you're probably the only billionaire petless MM. Wow.

In regards to the Henchmen-less MM, I'm not following the rules exactly as I understood it when the concept playstyle was proposed, ie using only your non-henchmen powers from your powersets and pools only. The damage is so pitiful and the endurance cost is so high, that over time I started to use my 3 vet attacks and my vet buff pet. The buff pet right there probably disqualified me and the vet attacks are a significant advantage over someone with less vet time. Still, I am solo. Although, I was doing a bit more street sweeping that missions when I last got any significant XP, which was two Double-XP weekends ago. I made a significant effort to get Stamina.