Roll for 20, sell em for 1!

In this thread, I am going to do just a little experiement...I'll start with 0 inf and see how long it takes me to get to 100 million, 500 million, and then 1 billion. I do have alot of field time coming up here and there, plus I have alt's and a few kids to deal with...I will list as much information as I can.

I sold all but 13 and made only 7.1 million.
I made a few mil on my runs which I put in my "email bank account" so all together 44.1 million.
I did mainly lvl 35-39 silver rolls with a few off rolls here and there.




Based on my experiance, the same level bronze rolls tend to be just a profitable if not more, but these silver rolls do great if crafted...and I hate crafting.
I have a feeling as this thread gets longer ill see alot more sells for 5. If that happens i will of course re-evaluate :-)

I think i am done farming for today as it is boring and too easy. I rolled a few more 20 packs lvl 35-39 bronze and 40-44. I even grabed a few silvers of the same level and as you can guess, listed them all for 1 inf.

I had to delete a ton of sniper, fear, and sleep recipes to keep my bays open. those never sell well for me anyway. Here is where I stand after about 2 hours work (84 mil so far):

well, i said the heck with it, and ran one more round. made the 100 million mark fairly easy. I assume that if i kept at this i could make a billion in 7-10 days of good farming, which is good for me, but probably slow for everyone else. I hope you all see that if you complain about not having money, there are ways to aquire it. this way sucks, but it works!

Interesting... is your return for selling 7 bronze recipes better than selling 1 rare salv?

You know, I don't know...but just for the heck of it, ill do one round of the same thing with high level random rare salvage, sell it for the same, and watch what happens. for those following along, That 7 million was from my first sale of all silver 35-39 rolls. the other 30 or so million was from farm profits running them at a high level (+3/8).

I know it seemed I went from 7 to 44 to 100 fast, and i took everything out of my bank account except what i started with (i had a spare 108 mil from my alt's combined efforts and 2 purple sales)

off to give the rare salvage a whirl!!!

Here is your answer. I am better off hoping for a kinetic combat, a doctored wounds, or a unique IO...or something of the like. I know what will sell immediately and what wont. in the past, I would price the better IO's to eliminate those "sold for 100 inf" undercut bids.

here is a sampling after two farm runs:



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I may ball up and run a all day farm spree just to see what 20 random rares priced at 1 inf would sale for....I have a feeling that would suck "monkey" balls

I ran a few runs and tryed a mix of silver and bronze at lvl 30-34. Not much luck until I got a performance shifter and another kinetic combat. I got so tired of deleting recipe's that i just started handing them out to anyone i was nearby. I may not be done playing, but i am done farming for day one. I am not sure when day 2 will be. What's crazy is that i am sabotaging myself by posting screenshots..lol



Not bad for a casual vet who doesnt farm....over 200 mil easy. It just proves people will pay anything i guess. I could have played the field and flipped and so forth, but I am too lazy for that. With that other 100 mil in the bank, i am a third of the way from having a great "buy it nao" build for just about any toon!

Oh, and go hogs! we beat LSU!!!

It's worth noting that you had to delete some recipes to free up slots. Slot space has a value.

I am enjoying this experiment so far. It's interesting to see how much you can make with a minimum of overhead (crafting and ww costs). There have been some cool experiments lately and I will be watching this one closely to see the outcome.

-Garber

Well, on average, any doctored wounds recipe sells for 5 -7 mil.
Reactive armor and doctored wounds can net me 10 mil easy....even recipes for those lvl 50's that are lvl 30 do well. THAT is one reason people turn off xp and run TF's....have you seen some of those prices? Seeing how people who love the game love to exemp down, and a lvl 30-35 IO is about the same as a lvl 50 SO..it makes sence. The may also explain why some of my lvl 50 recipes just do not sell well.

ALSO, I have not said what missions I have ran or anything. I am not about to list anything like that, BUT I have PM'd a dev in the past on things I found. With the patch coming very soon, it will all go away and something new will take its place. I have found legit ambush based farms that do the same thing. Besides, there is always battle maiden and demons, and those are actual content.

Today, I will roll lvl 40 and above silver and lvl 30 and below bronze. I am hoping to snag a few of those KB uniques and flood the market with them. I may save up a few runs and even roll a gold, but honestly the risk/reward for this on ANY gold roll just isnt worth it.
So far, well placed bronze rolls are where it is at. Silver has its spots, but once you dip too low in level, your wasting your time.

Also, salvage for this is not worth it. HOWEVER, with the recent SPIKE in some random uncommon and common salvage and the cheap cost to buy it...there definetly is money there. This will not always be the case, but when I made 200K for selling 3 crappy commons, i was like whoa!

It is important to understand that market results have ALOT to do with the often unique things: Fad of the month builds, AE exploits, What lvl you sell the IO's, and such. There will always be money to be made however you want to make it, but predicting how is like a shot in the dark. I can safely bet lvl 50's will always be wanted...and especially with high end content coming, you can bet they will have a place as well.

Time to go run myself into oblivion and find todays sweet spot.

Well, silver rolls netted me some big chunks of change. especially performance shifter @ 9 mil per. I am liking the 40-44 rolls for silver better as it cuts out all the crap rares in lvl 35 sets. I rolled a ton of lvl 30 bronze and still no uniques. I got to the point where I gave away alot of recipes.

Here is the latest:



I tried rolling all lvl 41-50 common arcane salvage thinking money is there...well, not so much. I made maybe a mil off of 1500 tickets worth of random commons. I just think the price simply isnt worth it. If you wanna craft what you get, i think your getting good money, as the prices are 8 for common and 80 tickets for uncommon.

More to come as I try all sorts of ways of selling things for 1 inf. While every post costs me 5 inf, which is great, they really get me on the back end :-)

Well, I blew some money trying to craft and sell lvl 45 damage IO's. Boy was that a waste. For a flipper, its good money now. For the sell it for 1 inf guy...Someone made a killing buying them for 15K...and I should have known better.

I am sitting at about 330 mil which I put in my email bank account and now I am back to a few thousand. I know I can easily make a 100 mil a day no matter which map or mission I use, as long as i can max out tickets.
I do know that this is more profitable than standard dev content farming, but the chance of getting that random purple probably helps that average, and helps the market - which is why I did this to begin with.

I may even hold a CC or something for the procedes of all of this, just to show that inf means nothing to me and just to be a cheerful giver. Keep tuned in!