Screw the current purple prices......

even when im rocking 20b+, I dont haphazardly spend 400m + on one IO.

Something in this thread tells me I should get into purples. I've gotten comfortable and complacent, crafting the same ol' level 50 sets.

Funny, I just finished 2 purpled builds (stalker twins for a concept) that left me broke.

I had taken a few months off the game and hadn't been actively marketing so I spent everything I had to purple out those two guys.

Starting with basically nothing but knowledge, between the launch of Going Rogue to now I have bought 14 purples doing the foolish method of Exausting my wallet every time I can afford a low ballbid.

So working with no existing capital I am able to afford them.
I only have six more to go before I can stop my own blatant stupidity and build up capital again.

I don't see the problem.

As a relative newbie, I just got a little lucky I think. I got an Apoc as a drop maybe six months ago (?) and had been sitting on it torn as to what to do with it. Not too long later the market merge announcement came. As I started making inf after reading FF's journal in late June I placed relatively low bids on the set as I could stand the risk. I ended up hitting on four of them prior to the merge, another triple and two other pieces non-procs. I saw that triple price hovering around 600-650 mill this past weekend and couldn't resist.

Anyway, I'm back to my regular crafting and consider that somehwhat of a lightning strike.

Cheers

There was, at one point last weekend, a "last 5" for the crafted and the recipe where something like 8 of the 10 total bids were over 500 million. I looked at the crafted, went "I could make money on that!", looked at the recipe, said "No I couldn't!"

In other news, the 4th out of 6 of my Hecatomb stocks (about 3 of each IO going into GR, all listed at 301M) have sold out. I think that means Hecamage/Endurance is going to be WELL over 300M this weekend, now that my buffer is gone. The other two probably won't ever break 300M, but it doesn't hurt anything to leave 'em up a while longer.

As someone who is terribad at any form of AH/Market in any game. Tell your friends with money to stop being cheap. (Translation: I just got an Apoc I'm trying to sell to fund my cheaper builds )


Also randomly cause it's on: Go Rays!

Did @Smurphy ever do purple farms? I believe he's not even active in the game at the moment so if the prices are high and he's involved its cause he's not doing it atm.

I think the core issue here is that alot of people who used to spend alot of inf on other parts of their build like LotG +7.5% and Numina/Miracle uniques are now finding those recipes cheaper which leaves more inf for the ultra-rare stuff.

Additionally since amerit farming is new and shiny....and with old purple/pool C prices probably the best way to make inf.......alot of people haven't been purple farming. At one point in i14 I was popping more than 10% of all redside purples and making ooodles of inf (total earned was something along the lines of 45B over a month and a few days). If you want to complain about the prices being high but don't see the opportunity to make inf then well......you don't understand economics.

As for what the uber-rich on CoX do with their inf.....who cares....some maybe like to sit on piles of shiny inf like Smaug and be happy with the size of their pile. I don't do that....since I slotted out most of the toons I wanted slotted high-end, I have been blowing it up to get my duo-VG with spouse to #1 on prestige list on Freedom....and I only need like 200B more so I guess its time to go pop 10 purples a week again (which will make me alot of inf AND lower prices by increasing supply).

Yeah probably.....but the OP is pissed about purple prices so the rest of the post is valid.