haven't read it yet, but I love the title.
The Nethergoat Archive: all my memories, all my characters, all my thoughts on CoH...eventually.
My City Was Gone
Very good guide! I see you kept a lot of notes.
I just want to add one more suggestion for :
- If you note that a specific IO is extremely expensive in your set, look and see if you can grab a different one for a lot less.
Model your build in Mids. Do not make the build right away. Instead, go to the market and look up the sets in the build. If the set is out of your budget, then replace with a cheaper set of similar bonuses.
Start slotting your character at level 1!
- Use the time you spend leveling to bid on expensive IOs you know you will use.
Also, if you start collecting IOs for the build but your toon is too low to slot them yet, make your own base and store your IOs there instead of using up a market slot or keeping it in your tray. An enhancement table can hold 100 IOs which is enough to slot 2 toons. If you are in a VG with other people in it, DO NOT put your IOs in their table. People assume it's free and will take it.
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There's actually a LOT that hit the cutting room floor - this was one of them. Not because its bad information, but because I felt it fell under the "combine" part. It was about twice as long before I went to town with the hatchet...|
Originally Posted by crayhal
Very good guide! I see you kept a lot of notes.
I just want to add one more suggestion for : - If you note that a specific IO is extremely expensive in your set, look and see if you can grab a different one for a lot less. Model your build in Mids. Do not make the build right away. Instead, go to the market and look up the sets in the build. If the set is out of your budget, then replace with a cheaper set of similar bonuses. |
I may or may not add some in if people really feel it needs it - at this point, I feel its already almost too long for most people to read
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Start slotting your character at level 1! - Use the time you spend leveling to bid on expensive IOs you know you will use. Also, if you start collecting IOs for the build but your toon is too low to slot them yet, make your own base and store your IOs there instead of using up a market slot or keeping it in your tray. An enhancement table can hold 100 IOs which is enough to slot 2 toons. If you are in a VG with other people in it, DO NOT put your IOs in their table. People assume it's free and will take it. |
I love the feedback!
Thank you!
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I didn't have my own base at first, and kept salvage and IOs in the VG's base. But after someone stole stuff from the bin with leader permission only, I made my own base. I didn't want to make one at first because I would lose access to the coalition chat and miss out on teams and SFs. However, the extra storage and security with having my own base won out. I just have a couple of toons in my own VG and only log on to them when I need to store stuff.
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Originally Posted by Misaligned
If you have your own SG, you probably know about storing IOs for yourself. If you don't, I can't help you! And most people are in someone else's SG/VG which makes storing your personal stuff very difficult.
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Originally Posted by crayhal
I didn't have my own base at first, and kept salvage and IOs in the VG's base. But after someone stole stuff from the bin with leader permission only, I made my own base. I didn't want to make one at first because I would lose access to the coalition chat and miss out on teams and SFs. However, the extra storage and security with having my own base won out. I just have a couple of toons in my own VG and only log on to them when I need to store stuff.
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If its a very small SG (3-4 people) storage is usually not an issue. You know the people who play and you can say "hey - DON'T TOUCH MY STUFF!"
However, in most SGs that I've seen (haven't seen a ton, but a few) there is special storage for the top 2 ranks and everything else ends up being fair game for anyone. Its "public usage" type of storage that will get your stuff nicked.
If you're comfortable storing your things and fairly comfortable that Bob the New Guy won't snap up your IOs you have saved for your latest project, by all means, use the base SG to store them!
However, you can store 20 IOs in emails (thus clogging up your email) and 10 more on any character over level 10 (so you can email them back to yourself). 50's that are already slotted are great for storing IOs "on character". The minor inf loss from not getting SOs while running missions is negligible.
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Actually, with global email attachments it's possible to keep most of your characters in their current SGs. You just need to have one character with its own base, and you can store IOs from all your characters in that base by getting multiple enhancement bins.|
Originally Posted by crayhal
I didn't have my own base at first, and kept salvage and IOs in the VG's base. But after someone stole stuff from the bin with leader permission only, I made my own base. I didn't want to make one at first because I would lose access to the coalition chat and miss out on teams and SFs. However, the extra storage and security with having my own base won out. I just have a couple of toons in my own VG and only log on to them when I need to store stuff.
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Yes, it's inconvenient to have to email items to the character with the base, but I find that I don't actually need to store all the IOs for a character at once. I start slotting IO sets at level 30 or so, and can usually keep IOs for the next several few levels on the character. Most of the things I store in the base are IOs that I won't be able to use for many levels, or extras I have left over from respecs.
The guide is done!
The guide is long
The guide has already been hacked up - so not sure how to make it much shorter.
The guide is HERE.
Excerpt from the guide:
This guide is written for anyone who makes purchases from the Market. The intention is to arm you with tools for finding the best prices on items you want, and some tactics for going about your marketing in a smart fashion.
**SPECIAL NOTE** Saving money takes time. If you're not interested in spending a few minutes (or more) at the market, this guide isn't for you. You may continue to bid what everyone else does costing yourself much inf. If this doesn't bother you, why are you here?!