i/o prices

Did someone set out a kettle of sweetened marketears? Where are all these casual warshades coming from?

Everyone has valid points.

Theres lots of ways to increase your inf income, they have all been mentioned.

When I'm needing inf for a new build/character, I simply don't purchase anything unless I really need it. Sell sell sell, keep the good ones or sell the good ones, slowly increasing your bank. By doing this by time my last 50 was ready to do final respec and io. I had saved up 1.3 bill, this gave me enough to fully io my team build with regular IO's and get a great start on my so called pve build on my dp/dm.

It's all on how you want to place your priorities. Just because its nice to have that long list of bonuses under your power list, really doesnt make you a better player.

Bottom line do what works for you, but at the same time its a game, have fun doing it.

Waiting to be placed on ignore list, and rep being degraded again

(Smurphy): I rarely farm but here is Herostats data of my Brute doing silly things.



19 and a half minutes. 29 Recipes. A safe guess would be 1 purple per hour. I think it averages to one purple every other run. Obviously, that's not exactly "normal character abilities doing normal stuff".

So that's some pretty good income. I think if one did boring stuff like that regularly over 6 weeks they'd reach 6B. I don't plan on doing the math nor a test run. Or was it 3B in 6 weeks? or 3B in 6 days? I wasn't paying enough attention.

Hmm, something tells me I'm 1) not pushing my brute enough and 2) burning too few insps (bad habit of clogging up my tray with Tier 3s that just sit there).

HEY! There can only be one beggar in this town and that's me! I've got senority and I've got squatter's rights to this whole area.

Minotaur's info is great.

Just to elaborate on the set IO bit:

What I found to be a really helpful tip when looking for good niches to work with was a tip I read in this forum somewhere.

Stuff that people always want is the stuff that moves well. In order to get a good idea of what people always want, look at your own builds. Look at the sets you're always using, the sort-of default sets for types of powers. Look at builds from all over the forums, you'll it's always the same sets coming up again and again.

I saw in my builds I was using a lot of Decimations or Thunderstrikes in my ranged attacks, Posi Blasts in my TAoEs, Crushing Impacts/Touch of Deaths/Mako's Bites in my melee attacks and so on.

And all of this stuff sells for different amounts. For example, Decimations can be on the pricier side, (20-40m for some pieces), whereas Crushing Impacts or Doctored Wounds rarely go for more than 5-10m. So start with the cheaper stuff and work your way up.

A good rule of thumb is to reinvest about half the profit you make back into bids for stuff. If you get 50m profit off a flip, bid in 25m of bids on stuff. That way you're constantly active on the market as well as having cash on hand for when you want to BUY IT NAO for yourself.

Another thing I found useful was getting an idea for how people are lazy. People paying the BUY IT NAO prices on crafted stuff are where the big bucks are. For me, I'll generally not bother crafting something unless there are no crafteds for sale or the price difference is truly huge, (as it can be on a lot of big ticket items like purples, LotG 7.5s, Miracle +recs, etc), because I am super lazy.

Rare is the person who buys recipes for every IO in their build and crafts them up. Common is the person who buys recipes for the pricey stuff to craft. So. What do you do? You spend a lot of time making the 'filler' type stuff. The meat and potatoes of builds. Going back to what I said above, this is pretty much all attack stuff. Almost everyone has attacks, but per build you can only have a few purple sets, so all the other attacks are gonna have low-mid priced stuff. Work on that stuff.

The stuff that doesn't cost so much that people will just say fuggit and buy the crafted version.

Oh and above all, be patient. Put in bids before you go to work, or before you go to sleep or before you start playing properly. Collect and relist when you get back from work, when you wake up or between missions. Waiting on stuff to move that isn't common salvage is often an exercise in frustration. Plus other stuff needs to be done anyway and the whole beauty of the market is that your money is working away while you're doing other stuff.