30 Hero Merit Rolls

Yeah, great thread. Seems like you're just about on pace to tie the 35-AMerit Gladiator unique, in terms of return on investment.

Can't help wondering what that Nanowrimo thing is, even though it's off-topic.

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Originally Posted by Iggy_Kamakaze Nice build

Nov 23:

Hero Merit Purchase: 20,000,000 (level 35-39 roll) (at 5:45 AM) (1:45 AM)

Stupefy chance for knockback vendored for 10,000
Aegis end/rech listed for 3.1 mil
Aegis end/rech listed for 3.1 mil
Positron's Blast chance for energy damage listed for 3,001,000
Celerity +stealth listed for... no idea. Probably 3,001,000 as well



This really pissed me off. The Celerity stealth was the only IO that was really worth anything, and before listing it I went to type "/screenshotui 1" so that I'd be ready to take my screenshot of what was listed. I had a problem on the weekend with stuff selling before I could even take my screenshot. Anyway, when I tried to bring up the chat box and type my screenshotui command, instead I somehow listed the Celerity stealth for sale. I didn't even know that I could do that from the keyboard... it really, really pissed me off. In practical terms, I only lost about 20 million on the sale (sold for 20 mil, usually sells for 40 mil), but in terms of me trying to be very careful with everything I do and then somehow messing up... it felt like I was getting screwed over, like I wasn't allowed to list the item for what I wanted to list it for.

Anyway... all that said, the last two days have been pretty lackluster rolls. I get to make another roll tonight at 10 PM.

Nanowrimo: over 34,000 words.

SOLD:

Celerity stealth for 20 million (instantly)
Aegis end/rech for 4 million
Aegis end/rech for 5 million
Positron's Blast chance for energy damage for 4,000,001

Money: 1,601,097,856

Nov 23 (2nd roll of day)

Hero Merit Purchase: 20,000,000 (level 35-39 roll) 10 PM (23rd purchase)

Mako's Bite dam/rech listed for 15.1 million
Aegis +psionic and mez resist listed for 3.6 million, sold immediately
Sovereing Right Aura 10% resist buff for peets listed for 3.7 million
Analize Weakness acc/end/rech listed for 10.1 million
Devestation dam/rech listed for 8.1 million



Another not-so-great roll. Luckily the roll I made tonight was much better. ^_^

Nov 24:

SOLD:

Aegis psionic and mez resist for 5 million
Mako's Bite dam/rech for 18 million
Sovereign Right resistance bonus for 5 million
Devestation dam/rech for 9 million
Analyze Weakness acc/end/rech for 12 million

Ran: Hamidon Raid, Freakshow Wars

Money: 1,616,136,147

Ran Freakshow Wars again

Hero Merit Purchase: 20,000,000 (level 35-39 roll) 6:30 PM purchase #24

Mako's Bite chance for lethal damage listed for 7.1 mil
Sting of the Manticore chance for toxic damage lsited for 6.6 mil
Touch of Death acc/dam/end listed for 10,010,000
Luck of the Gambler end/rech listed for 5,000,002
Kinetic Combat dam/end/rech listed for 111 million



Ran: Freakshow Wars yet again

SOLD:

Mako's Bite chance for leathal damage for 8 million
Kinetic combat dam/end/rech for 120 million
Touch of Death acc/dam/end for 11 million

Money: 1,714,999,595

I'm thinking I need to pull down some of those older bids and relist them.

Gift of the Ancients defense/increased run speed: 73 for sale, 73 bidding, last 5 sales for 8 million. My listing of 8.1 million will take forever to sell.
Positron's Blast chance for energy damage: 74 bidding, 174 for sale. Last 5 sales for 6 million and one sale for 2 million. I have NO chance of selling this at my listed price of 9.1 million
Decimation acc/dam/rech: 48 bidding, only 26 for sale. Last 5 sales for 15 million, although when I checked yesterday there were 4 sales for 25 million. If I had listed this at 15.1 million it probably would have sold by now. But with only 26 for sale, there's still hope mine will sell.
Numina's Convalescence healing/recharge: 153 bidding, 194 for sale. Last 5 sales include three at 32 million and 2 at 40 million. Even with that many for sale, this is a valuable IO. It was selling for 50 million when i listed for 41 million... I really need to relist this lower.

Oh and Nanowrimo: 36,210 words as of last night.

Nov 25

Hero Merit Purchase: 20,000,000 (35-39 roll) 2:45 PM purchase #25

Etropic Chaos dam/end/rech listed for 8.1 million
Expedient Reinforcement end/dam/rech listed for 8.1 million
Impervium Armor resistance listed for 61 million
Lockdown Chance for +2 mag hold lsited for 5.1 million
Numina's Convalescence heal/rech listed for 33 million

Money: 1,682,331,395

Nov 26

Ran: Freakshow Wars

SOLD:

Expedient Reinforcement end/dam/rech for 9 million
Loackdown Chance for +2 mag hold for 7 million
Numina's Convalescence heal/rech for 40 million

Hero Merit Purchase (35-39) 20 million influence 11 AM purchase #26

Devestation chance for hold listed for 9.1 mil
Devestation chance for hold listed for 9.1 mil
Perfect Zinger rech/end vendored for 10,000
Mako's Bite acc/end/rech listed for 9.1 mil
Obliteration acc/dam/rech/end listed for 61 mil

Money: 1,704,848,473



Ran: Freakshow Wars

SOLD:

Obliteration acc/dam/rech/end for 70 million
Mako's Bite acc/end/rech for 10 million
Impervium Armor resistance for 61,111,111 (to a very clever bid-creeper )

Money: 1,839,091,285

Nov 27

Hero Merit Purchase: 20,000,000 (level 35-39 roll) 7:30 AM purchase #27

Obliteration chance for smashing damage listed for 15.1 million, sold instantly
Obliteration chance for smashing damage listed for 15.1 million, sold instanlty
Pacing of the Turtle chance for recharge slow listed for 10.1 million
Positron's Blast chance for energy damage listed for 4.6 million, sold inside 3 minutes
Aegis end/rech/res listed for 9.1 million



I probably should not have listed the 2nd Obliteration for the same price after the first one insta-sold, but I was moving too quickly to react I guess.

I was feeling like I had far too much for sale, so I decided to relist three of the oldest items as I'd discussed previously. This had the effect of getting them sold quickly, at least.

RELISTED:

Positron's Blast chance for energy damage (was listed for 9.1 mil) pulled & relisted for 4.1 mil
Numina's Convalescence heal/rech (was listed for 41 mil) pulled & relisted for 32 mil (sold in 3 minutes)
Gift of the Ancients defense/increased run speed (was listed for 8.1 mil) pulled & relisted for 6.1 mil



SOLD:

Obliteration chance for smashing damage for 20 million
Obliteration chance for smashing damage for 20 million
Positron's Blast chance for energy damage for 6 million
Numina's Convalescence heal/rech for 32 million (another bid creeper, grrr)

Money: 1,878,213,428

Ran: Freakshow Wars

SOLD:

Positron's Blast chance for energy damage for 5,000,100
Gift of the Ancients defense/increased run speed for 7,000,001
Devestation chance for hold for 10 million
Devestation chance for hold for 10 million

Money: 1,909,114,809

So that cleared out some inventory, here's what I have left for sale:



Some interesting notes:

Obliteration chance for smashing damage is selling in the 20-25 mil range. I listed low out of fear of having them sit, but I could have listed them higher apparently. But I'm happy with 20 million each rather than having them sit for a week.

Impervium Armor is selling for as much as 70 million. I listed for 61 million and got nailed by a bid creeper.

Numina's heal/rech is selling reliably for 40 million. I had one listed for 41 million, which would have taken a very long time to sell (I think there's over 150 for sale? I forget exactly, but a lot). But when I relisted for 32 million, that was low enough to be nailed by a bid creeper again.

Positron's Blast chance for energy damage is selling for 6-7 million right now. I had one listed for 9.1 million, and I got another today. I listed the new one for 4.6 million, then pulled the older one and relisted for 4.1 million. Almost at the same time the new one sold -- I thought my 2nd listing had insta-sold for a moment, but in fact the other listing sold right before I listed one for lower. So 4.6 million was a good place to list it at. Luckily the one listed for 4.1 still sold for 5 mil.

Nanowrimo: nothing written in last 2 days. That's what I need to work on for today.

Nov 28

SOLD:

Sting of the Manticore chance for toxic damage for 7 million
Aegis resist/end/recharge for 12.5 million

Money: 1,928,128,391

Hero Merit Purchase: 20,000,000 (level 35-39 roll) 5:05 AM purchase #28

Dark Watcher's Despaire recharge/end reduction listed for 3,000,001
Gift of the Ancients defense listed for 14.1 mill
Mako's Bite acc/end/rech listed for 8.1 mil
Numina's Convalescence heal/rech listed for 34.1 mil
Positron's Blast dam/acc/end listed for 5,000,001

Money: 1,898,388,864



SOLD:

Positron's Blast acc/dam/end for 6 million
Numina's Convalescences heal/rech for 35 million
Mako's Bite acc/end/rech for 10 million
Gift of the Ancients defense for 18 million
Dark Watcher's Despair rech/end reduction for 5 million

Money: 1,968,203,864

Nov 29:

SOLD:

Pacing of the Turtle chance for recharge slow for 11 million

Money: 1,978,608,864

Hero Merit Purchase: 20,000,000 (level 35-39 roll) 1:30 AM purchase #29

Siphon Insight chance for +to hit listed for 4.1 million
Numina's Convalescence healing/recharge listed for 35.1 mil
Numina's Convalescence healing/recharge listed for 35.1 mil
Numina's Convalescence healing/recharge listed for 35.1 mil
Impervium Armor resistance listed for 45.1 mil

Money: 1,943,462,464



(Now why couldn't that have been three Numina's uniques? Sigh! Although actually this is a very good roll. ^_^ )

Ran: Hamidon Raid

SOLD:

Numina's Convalescence heal/rech for 38 million
Numina's Convalescence heal/rech for 37.5 million
Numina's Convalescence heal/rech for 38 million
Impervium Armor resistance for 50 million

Money: 2,099,003,157



Now unless I've miscounted, I only have one roll left to reach 30. I've finally climbed over 2 billion. As you can see above, I've placed a 1 billion bid on a level 53 LoTG +7.5% recharge... you can ignore my Oblit bids, those have been outstanding since before I started this thing this month.

I think I said halfway through that I'd probably finish 2.2 to 2.4 billion... I should hit 2.2 billion with a good roll tonight. Considering that a certain PvP IO goes for 3 billion (from what I can tell, pretty reliably), it's still both the easier, less time consuming way to make money and worth more money. But assuming you don't want to save up a whole 30 merits... random rolls can work out pretty well for you. Can't guarantee you'll make 2 billion off of 30 merit rolls, but I can't guarantee you wouldn't make more than me either....

Nov 29: (late)

Hero Merit Purchase: 20,000,000 (level 35-39 roll) 10:30 PM purchase #30

Positron's Blast chance fro energy damage listed for 4.6 million sold immediately
sting of the Manticore acc/interrupt/range listed for 12.1 million
Mako's Bite acc/end/rech listed for 8.1 million (sold in 5 minutes)
Numina's Convalescence +regen +recovery listed for 51 million
Luck of the gambler defense/increased global recharge speed 7.5% listed for 142 million

Money: 2,056,490,552



Wow, a Numina's unique and a LotG 7.5%! Saved one of my best rolls for last! ^_^

Nov 30:

SOLD:

Positron's Blast chance for energy damge for 5,500,110
Mako's Bite acc/end/rech for 10 million
Sting of the Manticore acc/interrupt/range for 15 million
Luck of the Gambler defense/increased global recharge speed for 150 million
Numina's Convalescence +regen/+recovery for 60 million
Luck of the Gambler end/rech for 7 million

Money: 2,290,380,651

Still have 3 IOs for sale, only one of which I care about much. But I still think my Decimation will sell when the price climbs....

So there you have it. 30 hero merit rolls. Barring anything really unexpected, I'll probably wind up with 2.3 billion once the other 3 IOs have finally sold. I started with 50 million, remember.



I feel I should give the money away or something...

Yay for yoooooou! Well done!

Thanks for sharing your experiment, Organica! I never used to bother with random rolls... the RNG and I have agreed to just be friends. But this has made me think twice.

I just went through and counted your results, and in fifteen of them you got at least one high-end unique or very valuable rare. That's not including the ones where several smaller values added up nicely. Now I know I can't count on half my rolls being knock-your-socks-off good, but the odds are better than I thought. Thanks for helping me see it!

*gives Organica a ginormous cookie*

Has it been a month already? Nice!

Thank you for making this thread. It's been very edumacational!

Good work, Organica!

And folks claim it's hard to make inf.

Sure, that's a lot of play over a month's time. But spread that out over the lifespan of a character playing "normally" to get to 50 and the results aren't all that different.

Oh, and for anyone that cares... Nanowrimo ended last night. I failed to write anything over the holiday weekend, then I tried to catch up on Sunday, Monday, and last night. The stated goal of Nanowrimo is to write 50,000 words in a month, but the real goal is just to challenge yourself to write. So last night at 11 PM I was at 49,000 words, and I knew I'd hit 50,000 if I stayed up until Midnight, but I was tired, so I called it good and went to bed.

I claim victory anyway. I got a lot written. ^_^

Thanks for this Organica, It was very interesting and Gratz on the Nanowrimo.

My Entropic Chaos triple finally sold for 8,888,888. ^_^

The other two are still for sale, lol.

My Decimation acc/end/rech finally sold.

It's been listed for 16.1 million for at least 3 weeks... nearly a month... and then it finally sells for 32 million. Go figure.

What server was this done on? Virtue?

It was on Virtue, yes. But the only thing that might affect is my ability to join task forces and most especially, hamidon raids.

What a great thread, thank you!
One thing that it says to me is that the devs actually did a pretty good job with balancing this system to the current market.... or the market has done a nice job of balancing itself to this system (not sure which!) - I'm a bit surprised, and more than a little impressed!