Does the Market suck this bad? Say it ain't so!

Tongz said

Welcome back to the game Tongz and welcome to the market forums.


Its too bad you got such a poor reception with your first post. There are a fair number of hypersensitive people in this forum and it seems a few decided to target you. I gave what I could in rep and sorry it only took you from -3 to -2 but I am sure you will be in the green soon enough. Don't let em get to you they aren't representative of the overall population in the game or even the over all population on the boards.

Anyhow here's what help I can give you with your questions.

First you really shouldn't sweat the details of your build as you are leveling up. While you are leveling its the time to learn what your build can do and what you would like it to do. Take it as the opportunity to get to know where you need to improve and try to see where you want to go with it. Then when you are at 50 with the character you can do your ultimate build and with any luck and a lack of oopsies from the devs you will actually get to use it for awhile.

Crafting Common Enhancements can make some inf but its really slow inf. Typical profits from a common IO are a few hundred K per IO if its one that isn't selling below costs, you can only sell one per slot and it usually takes awhile for them to sell. There are people that will tell you to just list for 1 inf, don't do this unless you are willing get your stock sniped by someone who is bid creeping or you are close enough to break even that it won't hurt. Just to put things in perspective, Rare salvages are currently going for around 2-4 million per currently if you need to buy one that's going to be a fair chunk of commons you have to move.

Instead of crafting the commons, you might try bidding for stacks of 10 at very low prices. I just saw level 45 taunts going for 1K inf per, holds, damages, even accuracies can all be had very cheaply. This way you can can broaden your selection without the upfront costs of memorization.

Going further on that because of the nature of the market there is hardly anything that doesn't have a pretty good level of volatility. There are always people listing things for very low prices and you can likely pick up steals.

Best of luck with the game

And remember "Illegitimi non carborundum"

rsclark said

Reading Disability ?

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Originally Posted by Reptlbrain Or--if you find it fun--you can make your character much stronger while leveling by frankenslotting or set IOing (harder because of fewer slots) as you go. This will also make you more effective as a soloer, if you want to solo, and thus a more effective earner.

VS

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The whole feeling of "I just enhanced my character, now watch me go into battle and show off!" can only be achieved through hours of crunching numbers and "working" the auction house to get inf. Once you MAKE enough inf to IO your character you get to spend even more hours painstakingly deciding how to slot your IOs so as to maximize every single little set bonus you can find.

You seem to have missed something.

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Other than the typical profits line, which is correct, the rest of this is all wrong. You can sell stacks of 10 crafted IOs now, as long as they are the same type and level. It is, of course, most convenient to sell commons in stacks.

You can ?? Really ???

Perhaps you mean buy not sell because otherwise you are mistaken. Placing multiple copies of an io into the market does not combine them into a stack and placing sell orders at identical pricing does not combine them. The only way you can do what you describe is with 10 slots. Which was the problem in the first place.


As to the rest well It is what it is.

Look at the numbers 15 slots, 13 available 2 used for salvage purchases. 200k per slot profit 2 days or more to turn over, or about 2.6 mil profit or considerably less than what you can make from about 10 minutes of just running missions.

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You do not need rare salvages to craft commons. You need rare salvages to craft almost every orange (and purple) recipe, and a handful of uncommon recipes. Finding loads of cheap recipes for a desirable set piece is usually a clue that the salvage is very expensive. (See Mako's Bite Damage/End.) These are usually not good craft-n-sell targets. Edit: misread the above sentence, but the advice still stands. 2 million infl is selling a single decent stack of commons.

No you don't. Of course I never claimed you did. The OP is trying to set IO out a character and that requires a considerable amount of rares. That whole reading comprehension thing again.

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No wonder Another Fan is having difficulty moving his inventory.

{Smiles}, what next 4 speed is going to lecture on the joys of salvage vending again ?

You too can make inf by vendoring salvage at a rate less than an emp defender makes running missions.

With three million, I'd go with a couple of popular yellow max-level IO's (the stereotypical ones being Thunderstrike, Crushing Impact and Doctored Wounds at level 50) which should make one to three million profit each, but I don't have any perspective on what the market is like if you're new to it. It may not be as obvious a starting place as I think. Three million becomes six becomes ten becomes fifteen, etc.