Patience for Salvage LOW

Does anyone else get so fed up collecting salvage for their recipes that they quit crafting? I've amassed almost all the Thunderstrikes I need for my Blaster, but I just get so fed up going through my vault, SG storage, and the Market that I put off crafting for days.

Aside from the too many storage sources, I just can't stand some of the prices on select pieces of salvage. It's not that I can't afford it, mind you. Spending millions on some common salvage just goes against my principles, so I have to wait days to get it at a reasonable price.

I know that's the reality of the Market, but <whine>I want my uber build now!</whine>

Does anyone have any pointers in maintaining patience? Every once in awhile I spend the BUY NOW price, but I feel dirty afterwards...

I buy all salvage now. Want to charge me a million for a common I need? I'll buy it.

I also suffer from Must-Craft-Now Syndrome.
ie I pay whatever it takes to get the salvage I need.

Tickets ?

If you feel its to expensive you have tickets, if the price isn't high enough to make it worthwhile to use tickets its obviously not too expensive.

I've never used base storage for invention salvage, and I virtually never use the vault system either. I just buy whatever I need, either at a buy-it-within-fifteen-minutes price, or a buy-it-now-price, or I put in an overnight bid and go on to something else.

My buy-it-now prices usually have caps though. I rarely spend more than 100,000 for common salvage, although I'll easily fork over 50,000 to 75,000. If the price climbs to 200,000 or above I'll use tickets or bid overnight. Similarly, I'm happy paying 2 million for almost any rare salvage, but I don't think I should ever pay more than 3 million (which I did a few times this weekend). It's not that I can't afford it, it's just that I don't want to pay that much.

I usually do not have a lot of time to spend in game so I tend to do buy it now prices for salvage in order to get a build done or at least to a place where I feel comfortable testing it out. However, that does sometime create a bit of a burnout for a particular toon and I may not go back to it right away or even finish the build right off.

I figure I save far far more being patient on the recipe. If I have the recipe in hand and theres even a single piece of the salvage I need on the market....its getting bought.

I have never used the salvage racks in my SG base for anything short of Rare pieces. Nowadays I dont even do that. Its not worth it. The market is my salvage rack.

I hate crafting so much I pay friends to do it. I usually give them a couple hundred mil for crafting like 20 recipies.

I think I should add a not about how I use base storage. I have two inspiration storage items; that holds just about whatever I think I should need. I have two... maybe three salvage storage bins, which is sufficient (although admittedly I mostly ignore them and the oldest ones are still packed with hundreds of obsolete base storage items, but also stacks of Halloween storage).

Then after that... I have nine enhancement storage tables... almost always stuffed full of crafted IOs (so something like 750+ crafted IOs in storage). Because having the IO you need already crafted seems like the best solution to me. ^_^

Base and Vault salvage is only useful if you can find what you need easily. I craft in the base since it's easiest for me. I have 10 bins of base salvage which are grouped sort of alphabetically. Ie, bin 1 is salvage A-B, bin 2 is C-D, bin 3 is E-H, etc... The vault is rare salvage (2+ mill) only. To make sure that I have enough diversity, I try to keep a max of 5 of each salvage, so I don't have a bin with just 20 silvers.
After each mission, I dump salvage here and sell the extras on the market. If salvage prices on the market are weird, I'd rather not feed the price fixers so I go to AE and roll salvage. I usually get what I need in 10 tries and then I store or sell the rest.

Yeah, crayhal! Stick it to us!

I still don't believe in price fixers on the merged markets. On the other hand, if you really want to spend tickets to get salvage that would have cost at most 100k or so, instead of to get recipes that are worth 10-20M, I can't really stop you.

So it's my stupid quirk that's killing my motivation. I've forced myself to BUY NOW on salvage, and crafting has (of course) become less of a chore. I don't mind waiting for recipes, but once I have that sucker, I want to create it! Now that I'm weaning myself off of that mental hang-up, things have eased.

I couldn't bring myself to spend precious tickets on salvage rather than recipes, though. It's just bad economy in the long run.

This is one of those cases where "Suck it up, n00b!" has actually worked on me. Thanks guys!

hey chaos! I just noticed you've got your market signature in your avatar.

I saw one of your bids the other day!