The Lazy Marketeer's Journal

Saturday March 5 2011

Logged in: Black Unicorn 50 tank (Freedom)
Last logged: 10 days ago (wow, really? Thought I'd been checking more often)
Money: 691 million

In addition to the dark melee/willpower scrapper I started a couple of weeks ago, I've been working up a dark melee/dark armor brute that I started just last week. I'm 26 now, will be able to hit 27 today, I've worked out a build and I'm nearly ready to start my set IO slotting -- at least, what I can manage so far. So I need to do some shopping. Time to check my market toons for someone to borrow cash from!

6 items sold: Mako's Bite quad, all 6 for 15 million each.

I have a lot of 10-stacks of Mako's Bite recipes, and all the salvage to craft 10 dam/end, plus also rare and uncommon salvage needed for the acc/end/rech. I think I can craft all 20 recipes then.

Last 5 on Mako's dam/end includes 4 sales at 10 million. There are 100 for sale, but 118 bidding. I think I can list pretty high on these. I list one at 8.1 million and it does not sell immediately, so that seems like a good price. I list the other nine for the same.

I place a bid for 10 Pangean Soil at 2.6 mil each so I'll be able to craft next time, then list four of the Mako's triples at 6.1 million each. More of those for sale, fewer bidders, price seems soft, but probably 6.1 mil will still sell.

Ending Money: 734 million

Logged in: Mouse Police, 42 blaster (Freedom)
Last logged: 10 days ago
Money: 440 million

9 items sold: Gift of The Ancients Defense, 1 for 22 million, 5 for 25,001,001, 3 for 25 million

I have six more of these listed for 46 million. >.> Also one Decimation acc/dam/rech listed for 21.1 million. Wonder if those will ever sell, or should I pull them now?

Gift of the Ancients: Defense (level 40) 45 people bidding, 94 for sale, none of the last 5 sales are for over 20 million, although obviously I know they DO sell for more than that. But my chances of selling at 46 million anytime soon are slim and none. I decide to pull those six down and relist them -- for 20.1 million each. I also have another crafted in my tray, so I list seven total at this price.

I have nothing else bought. I have lowball bids out on Luck of the Gambler: Defense at level 32 and 31, and Luck of the Gambler 7.5% recharge speed level 31 as well. Bidding on 10 recipes total, about 250 million tied up in those bids. While I'm at it, I decide to place two more lowball 7.5% global recharge bids at level 29 and 32, and adjust my other bid upwards slightly. I also place a bid for LotG Defense level 30, 3 at just over 16 million each. There aren't enough people bidding there, and the last sale was for less than 16 mil.

Finally I bid on 10 more Gift of the Ancient: Defense recipes at 2 million a piece, and 10 Soul Trapped Gems at 2.3 million each.

Ending Money: 330 million

Logged in: Mouse Police, 50 scrapper (Victory)
Last logged: 10 days ago
Money: 527 million

13 items sold: Decimation acc/end/rech 2 for 20 million, 1 for 19 million, 2 for 22 million, 1 for 21 million, 2 for 20,100,000 each, 2 for 25,555,555 each. Decimation acc/dam/rech 1 for 22,222,222 and 2 for 20 million.

I have six Decimation acc/dam/rech for sale still. Four of those are listed for 17.1 million, two are listed for 21.1 million. I have nothing else bought or ready to craft or list.

I place bids: 10x Decimation acc/end/rech at 175,000 each (one of last 5 sales is below that); 10x Decimation acc/dam/rech at 1.6 million each; 10x Decimation dam/rech at 601,000 each, and 10x Decimation dam/end at 601,000 each. Prices on these seem to be falling across the board, with literally hundreds of recipes for sale; only the accuracy/damage recipes are in short supply and selling for lots of money which is as per usual but is kind of weird since they're uncommon and not rare recipes. But it's always been like that, people love accuracy and damage first and foremost.

Ending Money: 759 million

Logged in: Holy Bell, 41 Peacebringer
Last logged: 7 days ago
Money: 892 million

13 items sold: Scirocco's Dervish dam/rech 8 for 15 million each, 1 for 13 million, 2 for 14 million, 1 for 14,044,444, 1 for 14,111,111

I have 7 more of these crafted and ready to list. More importantly, I think I've found the toon with cash to lend to my new brute. After collecting sales I'm at 1,070 million.

I list the seven dam/rech for 10.1 million each. Last 5 does not indicate that this is a good price but I know it is, and there's less than 50 for sale.
There are 144 Scirocco's Dervish dam/rech level 50 Ios for sale, with no bidders. I bid for 20 at 500 inf each, buy four immediately.

I have 10 Scirocco's dam/end recipes purchased, and 10 acc/dam purchased. I place a bid for 10 Synthetic Intelligence Units at 2.7 million each so I can craft the acc/dam recipe next time.

I mail off 300 million to my brute.

End Money: 740 million

Logged in: Serpentine-Fire, 50 blaster
Last logged: 6 days ago
Money: 903 million

15 items sold: Performance Shifter end mod/acc 4 for 11,111,111; 2 for 11,500,000; 3 for 12 million; 3 for 15 million; 1 for 16,666,666 and 1 for 18 million. 1 Red Fortune: Endurance for 4 million.

I have two Performance Shifter end mod/acc IOs to sell. I list them for 10.1 mil each.

One of them sells for 15 million while I'm talking to my friend.

I had a question for my friend -- who has been in Hero Force since returning to the game, and more recently is playing with American Legion I think it is, but back in the old days was in a SG called Cold Front Reserves. My personal SG has been coalied with CFR for years, and I know that nobody has used their base in years, base rent has not been paid in a long time. So I was suggesting to my friend that if he still had access to the base, it could possibly be sold for good money. ^_^

I have 20 more recipes of the same purchased, and salvage to craft four of them plus 10 more of the rare salvage required. (I also have 10 Performance Shifter end mod/rech recipes in my tray.) I craft 20 end mod/acc and list most of them for 10.1 million each. Another sells for 15 million while I'm doing this.

Shipped off another 300 million to my brute.

End Money: 766 million

Sunday March 6 2011

Logged in: Valentine Candy, 47 defender
Last logged: 6 days ago
Money: 537 million

14 items sold: Efficacy Adaptor end mod/accuracy: 1 for 4,500,001; 10 for 4 million; 3 for 5 million.

Purchased: 10x Efficacy Adaptor End Mod (555,555); 10x Efficacy Adaptor end mod/rech (401,000); 10x Perfomance SHifter end mod/acc (320,000); 10x Synthetic Intelligence Unit (2.8 mil).

I should be able to grab the other salvage for the Performance Shifters and lsit those. Actually I can buy the salvage for one of the other recipes and list those too, it's all cheap level 50 common and uncommon salvage.

10x Ceramic Armor Plate at 500: fills instantly. 10x Chaos Theorum at 1,000: fills instantly. 10x Nevermelting Ice at 1,000: 1 instant buy only, but I'm the only bidder. I wait, and actually it fills before I'm done typing this. ^_^

I bid on 8x Thorn Tree Vine (have 2 on me) at 12,000 influence; no insta-bids, but I need to go craft the Performance Shifters first anyway.

By the time I'm back from crafting I've only bought 3 Thorn Tree Vines, and people are buying at higher prices. I rebid at 51,000, which still does not result in any insta-bids. I buy the other salvage for the Efficacy Adaptor end mod quickly -- ruby and silver, easy to get. Still no more Thorn Tree Vines.
But I'm dual-box marketing at the moment so I can wait.

Eventually I list 10 Performance Shifters end mod/acc at 10.1 mil each, and 8 Efficacy Adaptor end mod at 3.6 mil each

End Money: 576 million

Logged in: Hunter's Kiss, 50 defender
Last logged: 7 days ago
Money: 612 million

(I have this character up on my other account on my laptop while Valentine Candy is on my main computer. Heh.)

9 items sold: Devastation acc/dam/rech, 8 for 7 million and 1 for 6 million.

I have 10 more DEvastation acc/dam/rech recipes bought, and 10 Diamonds and 10 Unquenchable Flames. Once again I just need Ceramic Armor Plate and Nevermelting Ice, easy peasy. I buy the Nevermelting Ice at 2,000 inf, plates at 500 again. Hardest part is getting to my base and waiting to load in on my crummy laptop, but then, I have my Thorn Tree Vines bought so I can swap to Valentine Candy to finish up there.

/em sings: Let's all hang out at my base!

By the way, because of that base sale up in the Base Building section of the boards, I got curious what my own private bases are worth. My biggest one is on Virtue, and it turns out that I'm still shy of 9 million prestige, which really is a pretty good base. My base on Freedom that I inherited is actually worth only something over 3 million prestige. I have a VG base on Virtue, and SG bases on Victory and Justice and one or two other servers, that are not even fully-operating bases. It's occurred to me that I could BUY 4 million prestige for a new base pretty easily, and that would be better than the base with the stupid name that I've been holding onto on Freedom for years. I could get my other bases up and running in short order, if only enough to have the med bay, teleports, and salvage storage. Y'know?

List ten Devestation acc/dam/rech for 6.2 million each.

Buy 10 more recipes at 601,000 (hoping that works, nothing in last 5 indicates I can buy that low but only 49 bidding). Diamonds 10 at 2.6 mil, Unquenchable Flame 10 at 2,000.

End Money: 630 million

Logged in: Shinobu Valentine
Last logged: 3 days ago
Money: 1,137 million

Oh good, I was looking for someone to borrow money from for another alt build. I'm working on my 27 widow this morning. ^_^

4 items sold: Titanium Coating Resistance for 6 million, Impervious Sking resistance/rech for 12 million, Aegis Resist/end/rech for 8 million, Red Fortune Defense for 4 million.

Unsold: 14 Scirocco's Dervish IOs. I'm overpriced. But it's only been 3 days.

I have two more IOs to list: Numina's Convalescense end/rech, I list for 7.1 mil, and Thunderstrike dam/end/rech which I list for 3.1 mil.

I decide not to bid on anything else since I have 16 IOs for sale and am not sure when they'll sell. I transfer 300 million to my widow alt.

End Money: 865 million

Logged in: Nina Ballerina 50 scrapper
Last logged: 6 days ago
Money: 786 million

3 items sold: Devastation acc/dam for 11 mil, 12 mil, 12.5 million
Unsold: 11 IOs, all Decimation acc/dam/rech listed for 17.1 mil each
I list 3 more Devastation acc/dam for 7.6 million each

End Money: 818 million

Evening

Logged in: Sparks Fly 50 scrapper
Last logged: 7 days ago
Money: 826 million

(Specifically logged in to help a friend PL a new toon)

8 items sold: Touch of Death dam/end/rech 6 for 20 million each, Obliteration acc/dam/rech for 20 million, Expedient Reinforcement acc/dam/rech for 7 million.

I have 4 more Touch of Death crafted, list those at 11,100,000. Also list a Titanium Coating res/def for the same price, and a Devastation acc/dam level 45 for the same. List an Efficacy Adaptor rech/acc for 3.1 mil. Bid on 10 Steel at 75,000

End money: 961 million

Tuesday March 8 2011

Logged in: Wall Street Brawler, 27 scrapper
Last logged: 10 days ago

Nothing sold, 80 items bought. I have a bunch of Scirocco's Dervish recipes and a bunch of rare salvage, and also a stack of Thorn Tree Vines. Let's see that that allows me to craft.

Thorn Tree Vines, 10 at 8,000 each, and Photonic Weapons, 10 at 3 million each, would be for the 10 Scirocco's DErvish dam/end bought at 251,000 each. I need Kinetic Weapons and Regen Flesh to craft -- easily done!
Scirocco's Dervish dam/end is selling for 10 mil in last 5... only 37 for sale though. I figure I can list for 9.1 pretty safely, so I do, all 10 of them.
I also craft 10 Scirocco's dam/rech and list 2 of them for 10.1 mil each.

Ending money: 396 million (Uh... forgot to note how much I had to start with. But it was more than that!)

Logged in: Earthsinger, 30 Dominator
Last logged: 30 days ago
Money: 323 million

Technically I'm not really trying to make money with Earthsinger. I'm crafting generic IOs in order to eventually craft 1,000, which will get me my Field Crafter badge. But this is a toon that I started out with just a couple of million and built up to my current level by crafting generics and working on field crafter -- if you do it slowly but steadily, you can make money while earning the badge.

Unfortunately, I haven't been paying attention to this character much the last couple of months. I have nothing for sale, nothing bidded on, nothing purchased. I put in bids for masterwork weapons and iron to craft mid level damage IOs, and that's it.

End money: still 323 million

Logged in: Jalia, 50 scrapper (Freedom)
Last logged: 10 days ago
Money: 784 million

9 items sold: Mako's quad 6 for 8 million each, Mako's triple 2 for 7 million 1 for 7.5 million.

I have 10 Mako's dam/rech (paid 100,001 each) and salvage to craft them.

I have 4 more quads to list. I list them at 7.6 million each.

I lists 7 of the dam/rech at 8.1 mil each.

I bid on Rikti Alloy, 10 at 2.1 mil each. I have a stack of Mako's triples and a stack of Mako's acc/dam still waiting to craft and sell.

My new project is a Night Widow that I've had at level 26 since November. Over the last two days I've got her to 29 and also gone rogue. I checked out builds and found TopDoc's ridiculously expensive softcapped build -- mostly build on heavy recharge, lots of purples. I haven't tried to purple out a toon since I did that with my warshade Squiddy Kitty last Summer, but Night Widow seems like the right AT do to it with. It's a claws/SR scrapper with stealth and massive team buffs -- what's not to like?

So I ship 100 million influence off to my new Night Widow. I'm going to need a lot of money for her build.

End Money: 719 million

Logged in: Maiden Knight, 50 scrapper, Justice
Last logged: 10 days ago
Money: 108 million

You have purchased: 10x Touch of Death acc/dam (501,000 each), 10x Touch of Death dam/rech (950,000 each), 10x Inert Gas, 10x Military Cybernetic, 10x Stabilized Mutant Genome, 10x Alchemica GOLD, 10x Masterwork Weapon, 10x Ensorcelled Weapon, 10x Demonic Blood Sample, and also a Magical Conspiracy, two Photonic Weapons, a Psionic Threat Report, and also an Absolute Amazement Stun Duration/Rech for 112 million and an Absolute Amazement Stun/Rech/Acc for 171 million. (Speaking of purpling out toons -- well, one purple set at least.)

The random salvage is for two other Absolute Amazements I have waiting to craft. So my build is almost done here, but I have some work to do!
Craft & list 10 Touch of Death dam/rech at 12.1 million each

Craft 10 & list 8 Touch of Death acc/dam at 7.6 million each. One sells for 7,777,777, so I list a ninth at 8.1 million.

Craft & slot 4 Absolute Amazements -- my "cheap" mule set that wound up being pretty expensive. Hello 80% recharge bonus! (150% when Hasten is up.)

End Money: 86 million, but with all market slots filled with stuff for sale

Logged in: Kung Fu Chelsea, 23 scrapper
Last logged: 10 days ago
Money: 493 million

10 items sold: Mako's Bite acc/dam 5 for 6 million, 4 for 7.5 million, 1 for 10 million.

I have 10 Mako's Bite dam/rech with salvage, and 10 Mako's triples with salvage (rare and uncommon salvage anyway).

I craft and list 10 Mako's dam/rech for 7.1 million each. I have no reason to think they'll sell for that much, I'm just being stubborn. Last 5 sales are all below that. But I don't check this toon very often anyway, I can wait for my price.

I craft & list 4 of the triples at 7.1 million, and three more at 7.6 million. Those seem to be selling a bit better, but there are still tons for sale.

End Money: 542 million

Log in: Shinobu Dragonheart
Last logged: 6 days ago
Money: 181 million. Sheesh, where are my rich toons anyway?

5 items sold: Decimation acc/dam/rech, 3 for 20 million. Decimation acc/end/rech for 20 million. Winter's Gift movement/range level 46 for 7 million

I have a lot of Decimations still for sale, and a lot to craft and sell. What a mess. I craft 10 acc/dam and list 8 of them for 17.1 million each. I also buy salvage needed to craft 10 Decimation dam/rech, but I don't craft them just yet.

End Money: 251 million

Logged in: Mouse Police, 50 scrapper
Last logged: 6 days ago
Money: 312 million

2 items sold: Touch of Death acc/dam for 9 mil each

8 more for sale for quite a bit more than that.

I craft 10 Touch of Death acc/dam/end and list 5 o them for 12.1 mil each. That's all I can do for now.

End Money: 323 million

Logged in: Organica, 50 scrapper
Last logged: 6 days ago
Money: 689 million

17 items sold: Efficacy Adaptor end mod/rech 8 for 5 million, 1 for 4 million, 1 for 5,01,001, Efficacy Adaptor end mod/acc 4 for 4 million, 1 for 5 million, 2 for 5 million 1 for 5,001,001.

I list three more end mod/acc for 3.1 million each. I craft 10 end mod/rech and list them for 3.1 mil each too.

I bid on 10x EA end mod/rech for 260,000 each, and 20x end mod/acc for 160,000 each

I ship off 100 million to my "purple out my Night Widow" fund.

End Money: 652 million

(I really want to scrounge up more money for my widow, but for now I've spent too much time at the market. I've been bleeding off money for too many projects lately -- 1 billion to my friend, money to burn for the 88's, money to three new alts, money sunk into buying more Kinetic Combat and Obliteration IOs. I need to make more!)

Wednesday March 9 2011

Logged in: Nina Ballerina 50 scrapper
Last logged: 3 days ago
Money: 818 million

3 items sold: Devastation acc/dam for 9 million and 2 for 8 million
I decide to be more daring and list 3 more at 8.1 million. (They were alredy crafted.)

Oh, I bother to notice how many shards I have now. I craft a tier 2 incarnate slot and then my tier 3. ^_^ I probably should pay more attention to these things, heh.

I send 100 million to my Night Widow fund.

End money: 741 million

Log in: Tiffany Blackheart, 50 scrapper
Last logged: Think I ran a Numina last night on her.
Money: 1,062 million

1 item sold: Decimation acc/dam/rech for 18 million

I have all kinds of stuff bought, and very little for sale. Let's see what I can craft.

I'm able to craft Decimation acc/end/rech. Despite everything it looks like they're still selling for 20 million, but with a lot for sale. I list 10 at 16.1 million each, and am able to craft 10 more for later.

Also, Tiff has 18 shards and 2 notices of the well, and only a tier 1 alpha... I'm able to craft a tier 2 pretty easily, but still not quite ready for tier 3.
I send 300 million influence off to my purple my Night Widow project.

End Money: 767 million.

Log in: Sailor Shinobu 50 tank
Last logged: 3 days ago... but I don't think I marketed at the time?
Money: 495 million

I have nothing sold, but I hve 10x Aegis Ressit bought at 8.7 mil each and 10x Reactive Armor Resist/End/Rech bought at 18.2 mil each (wow I hope I knew what I was doing there), and 10x Pangean Soil bought at .32 mil, and also the 10 Symbols for the Reactive Armor... I'm ready to rock here.

Well, sort of. I need 10 runes and 8 circuit boards to craft the Reactiv Armors.

The Reactive Armor triples are selling for up to 40 million, with only 12 for sale. Ah, cool, I DID know what I was doing! I'm able to craft 2 and list them at 27.1 million each.

Aegist Resist, on the other hand, has been selling for as much as 30 million but as low as 11 million, with 87 for sale. The price seems very soft, but I list 10 of them at 20.1 million anyway.

Still waiting on most of my circuit boards and runes to purchase.

Let's see... Sailor Shinobu has 19 incarnate shards, an ancient nictus fragment, and... no alpha slotted yet. Do I even remember what I was going to do? Meh.

Cardiac sounds good... endurance reduction, and added resists. Sailor Shinobu is Invulnerable with softcapped smashing/lethal, upping my other resists would probably help a lot, and the set has always been toggle and endurance heavy. So now my tank is alpha slotted and halfway to a tier 2.
I finally craft 5 more Reactive Armors and list those for 27.1 mil each as well.

End Money: 468 million

This is a very interesting read for me.

I usually just sell whatever drops. What I find fascinating is you're buying in stacks and you're purchasing salvage. I'm a cheapskate and if I didn't have the salvage I generally wouldn't bother especially with things like Alc Silver; but you just go out and buy 10!

I also admire you ability to leave the character alone for a week. I'm like a kid with a scab and want to check if it's sold every day.

Thank you for the effort you have put into this.

I did stop writing stuff down last weekend, but I'm posting 2 weeks after so I have another week to go I guess. ^_^ Glad to know some people find it interesting to read. Writing it down certainly increased the amount of time I was marketing by a factor of 2 or 3 -- normally I can check several characters in half an hour or so and be on my merry way.

I've been focusing on my night widow for the last three weeks. As of last night, I was 3 bubbles from level 48. I have purchased 5 Hectacomb, 5 Armageddon, 5 Ragnarok and 2 Apocalypse (including the triple, the most expensive piece). Just 3 more pieces to go! Plus a few hami-Os I think too.

We ran a Faathim the Kind TF a couple of days ago and I got a Ragnarok proc drop. Very nice, made other people jealous, but I also know from just having bought one that it's one of the cheapest of all the purple damage set pieces. ^_^ I think I picked up the other one for about 32 million.

I also want to let you know how much I've appreciated this thread as well. It's given me a solid reference to help figure out how to get started for myself.

That's good, that was pretty much my main reason for doing this. ^_^


Friday March 11 2011

Logged in: Organica 50 scrapper
Last logged: 4 days ago? I logged her in yesterday just to add my new Widow to my SG.
Money: 652 million

13 items sold: Efficacy Adaptor end mod/acc 3 for 4 million; Efficacy Adaptor end mod/rech 9 for 4 million 1 for 5 million

Craft and list 10 end mode/acc for 3.6 mil each. craft 10 end mod/rech and list 6 of them for 4.1 mil each. Place another bid for 10 more end mod/rech recipes for 12,000 each.

End money: 689 million

Log in: Popeye Khan 42 tank
Last logged: 6 days ago
Money: 232 million

5 items sold: Impervium Armor level 31 for 50 million, leve l29 for 40,000,001, level 32 3 for 30 million. Ahh... that's more like it!

You have purchased: 2x Obliteration damage level 32 at 12 mil each; level 31 at 12 mil, Obliteration acc/rech lvel 31 at 1.2 mil; 2x Obliteration dam/rech level 31 at 2 million each and 4x Oblit dam/rech level 32 at 2 mil each. No quads, which i have bids on. No more Impervium Armors either. A quick check shows only that one person has purchased a level 31 for 25 inf more than my bid, so I up my bid on those. Otherwise, no evidence that lots of these recipes are going to some other crafter instead of me.

I place bids on all the rare and uncommon salvage I'll need to craft the Oblits.

End Money: 380 million

Log in: Holy Bell 41 Peacebringer
Last logged: 6 days ago
Money: 740 million

Sold 7 items; Scirocco's Dervish dam/rech 4 for 11 mil, 1 for 12 mil, 1 for 10.5 mil, 1 for 11,111,111.

I have 40 different Scirocco's Dervish recipes purchased, but also 10 Synthetic Intelligence Units which means I can craft the acc/dam after buying the other salvage. The Chaos Theorums are a bit slow to buy at 21,000 inf though. While I'm at it I bid on 10x Hamidon Goo at 1.9 mil each and 10x Photonic Weapon at 2.2 mil each. Then I up my bid on the last 5 Chaos Theorum to 51,000, but the bid still sits there. I finally buy the last two at 100,000 each.

There are only 11 Scirocco's Dervish acc/dam for sale. Last 5 are 20 mil or more. I list mine for 18.1 million each... probably could list even higher.

End Money: 758 million

Logged in: Serpentine-Fire 50 blaster
Last logged: 6 days ago
Money: 766 million

18 items sold: Performance Shifert End Mod/Acc 1 for 11,111,111; 9 for 15 million (gotta love it!); 2 for 10,111,119; 5 for 11 million, 1 for 12 million.
I have one for sale still (listed high at 17.1 mil) and 2 to list, which I do for 10.1 mil each. I also have 10x Performance Shifter end mod/rech to craft, but no salvage yet.

I place a bid for 10 more end mod/acc recipes at 2.6 mil each; I bid on 10x Hamdion Goo at 1.9 mil each and 9 Unquenchable Flames at 2,000 each.
send off 200 million to my purple my Widow project. ^_^

End Money: 739 million

Log in: Valkyrie of Atlantis, 50 scrapper
Last logged: 6 days ago
Money: 906 million

5 items sold: Touch of Death acc/dam for 10 mil each.

Oooh I earned my Merchant badge, 1 more transaction slot

I have 2 ToD acc/dam/end to list, which I do at 12.1 mil each.

I have eight of these currently listed at 17.1 mil each. There are more than 80 for sale and they're selling for 15 mil a piece. I hate to pull down stuff to relist, but I finally decide I'd better do it. No idea when the price will rise back up to 18-20 million.

I also bid on salvage needed to craft the 10 ToD acc/dam recipes I have. I also have dam/end and dam/rech, so I place a bid on Military Cybernetics at 2,000,100 each.

I ship off 200 million to my Widow fund.

End Money: 732 million

Logged in: Huntress Midnight 50 brute
Last logged: 5 days ago
Money: 603 million

I have purchased: 10 Aegis Resistance, 10 Pangean Soil. Other salvage is easy to buy so let's go to work!

Oh, I also have a Kinetic Combat dam/rech level 30, bought for 4 milion. Nice!
I buy the other salvage needed, craft, and list 10 Aegis Resistance IOs at 26.1 mil each.

I craft the Kinetic Combat and mail it off.

I list 3 other junk IOs that I have left over from a respec. I also place a bid on a level 32 Luck of the Gambler 7.5% recharge at 112 million. I have a bid on a level 33 of these already for the same amount.

End Money: 468 million.

Logged in: Shinobu Dragonheart 50 scrapper
Last logged: 3 days ago I guess
Money; 251 million. Oh that's right, this toon is poor

10 items sold: Decimation acc/dam 6 for 18 million, 2 for 17.5 million, 2 for 20 million.

I also have 10 Decimation dam/end crafted already, and 10 acc/end/rech waiting to craft. I bid on 10 Mu Vestment at 2.12 mil each for that purpose, and 10 Alchemical Gold at 233,000 each. I list 9 of the dam/end IOs at... wow, they're selling well, 25-30 million in last 5 with only 39 for sale. Hmm, but I don't want to list too high again. I list 4 of them at 18.1 and 5 at 20.1 mil.

End Money: 392 million

Logged in: Mouse Police 50 scrapper
Last logged: 3 days ago
Money: 323 million. Mouse is poor too!

11 items sold: 6 pcs of random salvage and 6 Touch of Death acc/dam/end, 3 for 17 million and 2 for 14 million.

I have 5 more crafted; I list these at 10.1 mil each. I also have a whole bunch of ToD acc/dam listed at 11.1 mil each that aren't selling.

I have recipes to craft too, and rare salvage needed for the ToD dam/end/rech. I place bids for the other salvage. That leaves 10 ToD dam/rech for next time.

Craft 10 Touch of Death dam/end/rech, list 7 of them for 10.1 mil each.

End Money: 388 million

Saturday March 12 2011

Logged in: Squiddy Kitty 50 Warshade
Last logged: 6 days ago
Money: 770 million

7 items sold: Scirocco's Dervish dam/rech 2 for 14 million, 5 for 15 million.
3 more haven't sold yet, so I'm priced a bit high I guess.

In the buy box I have 20 more dam/rech recipes, and also 10x Scirocco's Dervish triples and 10x Scirocco's Dervish dam/end, along with the 10 Plat and 10 Photonic Weapons needed to craft those.

I craft 10x Scirocco's Dervish acc/dam/end and list them for 7.1 million each. I craft 10x Scirocco's Dervish dam/end and list 2 of them for 17.1 million each. I also craft a backup radio, a recovery serum, and an Obliteration acc/dam/rech level 50, all drops from the last task force I was on.
when I'm done I mail off 125 million to my purple my Widow fund.

End Money: 721 million

Logged in: Bubble Girl Six, 50 defender
Last logged: 7 days ago
Money: 898 million

10 items sold: Mako's Bite acc/dam/end/rech, 2 for 12 million, 2 for 13 million, 2 for 10 million, 4 for 9 million.

I have 10x Mako's Bite dam/rech purchased (12,000 each), along with the 10x Magical Comspiracy (3.1 mil each) and 10x Thorn Tree Vine (12,000 each). I also have 10x Mako's Bite acc/dam/end/rech bought at 5,000 each, and 1 Mako's Bite acc/end/rech bought at 2,000, with 9 more of those bidding. That's a pretty lowball bid apparently, but I can afford to let it ride for another week or whatever.

I craft and list 10 Mako's Bite dam/rech for 6.2 million each. I bid on 10x Pangean Soil at 2.1 million each. This is significangly lower than any of the last 5, but is still an instant buy for all 10. Ugh. Well, in that case, I can craft the quads and list a couple of them too.

I craft them and list 3 at 8.1 million each. I also place a bid on 10x Mako's Chance for Lethal Damage at 2,000 each; it seems to sell better and has fewer for sale than anything else in the set. I know it's a popular proc in some ways. Of course, that will require twice the rare salvage, but the profit margin still looks pretty good.

I mail 250 million to my purple my Widow fund

End money: 712 million

Log in: Sparks Fly, 50 scrapper
Last logged: 6 days ago
Money: 959 million

6 items sold: Titanium Coating resist/endurance for 12 million, Devastation acc/dam for 11,111,111; and Touch of Death dam/end/rech 2 for 13 million, 1 for 13.5 million, 1 for 14 million. I have 6 ToD acc/dam/end listed for 17.1 million though.

I earned the Peddler badge.

I have a crafted Thunderstrike dam/end/rech level 50 that I list for 3.1 million
I have 10 Touch of Death acc/dam/end that I paid 1.8 million for (really? Doh, that was a while ago I think; they're selling for less than 2,000 inf now), 10 Deific Weapons bought for 3 million and 10 Steel bought for 75,000. Well, I can craft this stuff anyway.

List 7 of them for 9.1 million each. Place a bid on 10x ToD dam/rech for 601,000 each. It looks like the dam/end are selling for the best in the set, but recipes are going for 8 million at the moment.

I e-mail 300 million influence off to my purple my Widow fund.

End money: 716 million

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Things I have done with my money in the last month:

1. Dontated 700 million to the Crazy 88's

2. Traded 1 billion to a friend

3. Placed bids on dozens of level 30-33 Kinetic Combat and Obliteration IOs, and a few Luck of the Gambler +7.5% defense IOs as well.

4. Spent hundreds of millions on a new dark melee/willpower scrapper, Scrapper Girl One, who is currently level 35 with a build that includes 5 Kinetic Cobat sets (4 already slotted), 2 Obliteration sets (already slotted), a Numina's unique (slotted), two sets of Reactive Armor (partially slotted), eventually 3 Performance Shifer procs (2 are slotted now), a Celerity Stealth IO (slotted). Typical build for my willpower scrappers, based off a build I found on the forums. Character has 179 million influence, 9 merits and 2 hero merits.

5. Spent hundreds of millions on a new dark melee/dark armor brute, Mina Evangeline, who is currently level 29 and has a working build that includes 3 sets of Kinetic Combat slotted, and working on slotting 2 sets of Obliteration and 2 sets of Reactive Armor... also has a Celerity Stealth slotted and a Miracle unique slotted, but build is a work in progress with a lot of generic IOs so far. Character has 479 million influence on hand, 66 merits, 1 hero merit, and 3514 tickets ready to roll at level 30. I like to roll as many tickets and merits as I can in the level 30-33 range.

6. Spent well over a billion so far on a new night widow, Miss Shinobu, who is currently level 33 (nearly 34, should hit 35 today easily). While I don't have a very fancy build so far -- 4 sets of Crushing Impact, 2 sets of Red Fortune, one Luck of the Gambler +7.5% slotted so far, the usual Steafast Protection +3% def IO that nearly every build of mine carriers, but that's nearly it so far -- I am planning on several purple sets when I hit 50. To date I've purchased a Hectacomb dam/rech/acc and Hectacomb dam/end, and I now have 872 million more to play with, so I place bids on Hectacomb dam/rech and rech/acc. (dam/rech purchase goes through 20 minutes later!)

I guess I'm averaging nearly 400 million per Hectacomb piece, so that's about 1.6 billion invested in just the first four purple IOs. This build is based on TopDoc's AV/Pylon killer build, and will require 4 purple sets (20 pieces), all the damage sets, so I'm less than 1/4 of the way to buying that. ^_^ But I've only been working at it a week.

I also have bids in on a Performance Shifter proc and a Luck of the Gambler 7.5% IO, level 30-33, about 150 million more tied up there.

In the past few days with the charcter I've also rolled on thousands of tickets and two hero merit rolls, and have 50 merits to convert and roll still. So far the hero merit rolls have been less than stellar.

All told, I may have spent more than 5 billion this month. ^_^

Anyway, that's how I spend my money -- I don't heavily IO one or two characters, I try to IO out every charcter of mine in the way that I think will make them most effective. I think my future goal is to invest in my bases on the various servers I have toons on -- not only Virtue and Freedom, but Justice, Victory, and Infinity at least. A billion or two for each base would allow me to set up fully functional bases on each server.

Logged in: Sailor Shinobu 50 tank
Last logged: 3 days ago
Money: 468 million

17 item sold: Aegis Resist 5 for 30 million, 2 for 25 million, 1 for 21 million, 1 for 22 million, 1 for 20,100,000 (my list price ) Reactive Armor Resistance/Endurance/Recharge 6 for 40 million and 1 for 35 million.

Money after collecting sales: 972 million. Ah, that feels good!

I have 3 more Reactive Armors to craft, but nothing else after that so I need to put in some bids.

I bid on 10x Aegis Resistance at 10,111,112 each and 10x Reactive Armor end/rech/res at 18.5 million each. The Reactive Armor market is one that takes money to buy into -- there's 185 million in that 10 stack bid there -- but they cost next to nothing to craft (uncommon recipes, no rare salvage) so when they sell for 40 million it's more than doubling your investment. Not bad. ^_^

I list my 3 Reactive Armor triples at 36 million. Some of the recent sales were for as much as 70 million, and only 36 are for sale. It's a seller's market.

End Money: 681 million

Logged in: Shinobu Valentine, 50 troller
Last logged: 3 days ago (almost joined a MoSTF before deciding it was late and I should sleep. They ran a successful MoSTF and followed it with a successful MoITF.)
Money: 865 million

16 items sold: Scirocco's Dervish acc/dam/end 4 at 10 mil each; Scirocco's Dervish acc/dam 7 at 16 million, 1 at 15.5 million, 2 at 19 million. Numina's Convalescence end/rech for 12 million. Thunderstrike dam/end/rech for 4,133,700.

Money after collecting all of that: 1,074 million

I have nothing purchased, nothing bidding, nothing for sale. I think I've convinced myself that i need to work the Reactive Armor market more though. All the IOs with resist sell for 30-40 million crafted, and recipes buy for 18.5 mil to 22.5 mil. And there are always people buying them and never too many for sale.

I place a bid for 10 Reactive Armor rech/res at 18.5 mil each.

I've also noticed that I have zero Numina's Heal IOs in my base. These are useful to have around, so I place a bid for 5 level 32 IOs at 21 mil each.
Since I only have a bid on 10 recipes for crafting and selling, I place another bid on 10 Scirocco's Dervish acc/dam at 3.1 mil each.

After that I send off 100 million to my Widow fund.

End Money: 653 million

Logged in: Hunter's Kiss, 50 defender
Last logged: 6 days ago
Money: 630 million

10 items sold: Devastation acc/dam/rech all for 8 million each.

I have purchased 10 Diamonds and 10 Unquenchable Flames. Unfortunately I have failed to purchase the 10 Devastation triples that they would allow me to craft. A bid of 601,000 was too low apparently.

I rebid at 901,000. I don't want to bid too high, there's not a huge profit margin on these. Although I should get more than 8 million per crafted.
I also bid on 10 Devastation acc/dam at 601,000 each

I have nothing for sale. But then, hey -- I have over 6,000 tickets untapped. Hmmmm....

4 Silver Rolls 35-39: Touch of Lady Grey proc, Touch of Death proc, Dark Watcher's Despair proc, Gift of the Ancients def/rech. Bleh, kinda wasting my time with silver rolls.

Bronze rolls 35-39 yields (ignoring all the junk): Serendipity def/rech, Gift of the Ancients def/end, Touch of Lady Grey proc (again, for a lot less tickets this time), Reactive Armor end/rech (not one of the good ones darn), Mako's Bite acc/dam, Decimation dam/end, Smashing Haymaker dam/rech, Guassian's Synchronized Fire-Control to hit buff/rech, Doctored Wounds recharge, Thunderstrike acc/dam/end x2, Efficacy Adaptor end mod/rech, smashing Haymaker dam/end/rech. 2 bronze rolls at level 10-14 yields: Basilisk Gaze acc/hold and Call to Arms dam/end. I'm happy to craft all of those. Well, mostly happy.

I list: Basilisk's Gaze acc/hold for 31 million, Decimation dam/end for 20.1 million, Guassian's to hit buff/rech for 18.1 million, Doctored Wounds Recharge for 4.1 million (sells immediately for 5 -- that was the last 5 price, and there were 278 for sale, so I'm happy with that result By the way, unlike some heals where the pieces without a heal bonus are less valuable, Doctored Wounds: Recharge, is a popular piece. People that use Doctored Wounds are usually 5 slotting for the +5% recharge bonus -- for example, regen scrappers -- and having extra recharge in their clickable heals is a GOOD thing).
Efficacy ADaptor end mod/rech listed for 4.1 mil; Gift of the Ancients defense/end listed for 17.1 mil, Gift of the Ancients defense/rech listed for 14.1 mil. Touch of death Negative Energy proc listed for 18.1 million. Call to Arms dam/end listed for 21 million. Mako's Bite acc/dam listed for 5.1 million.
That leaves me with 5 crafted IOs to list later, and some junkier recipes to craft later. I decided to blow the rest of my tickets on 10-14 bronze rolls, but only come up with a few marginal IOs -- Triage end/hal, Triage heal/rech, discouraging Words to hit debuff/rech/end and Stagger acc/rech, and tons of junk that I delete immediately.

End Money: 672 million.

Log in: Nina Ballerina 50 scrapper
Last logged: 2 days ago, can't remember if it was to market though
Money: 741 million

3 items sold: Devastation acc/dam for 10 million each

I list one more that I have at 8.1 million.

I have purchased: 10 Decimation acc/dam/rech and 1 Obliteration dam/rech level 30. I also have a Red Fortune def/end on me from my last TF.

I have a bunch of Decmation acc/dam/rech already for sale for 17.1 million. Last 5 prices show that they're seilling for above that -- up to 20 million -- but mine aren't moving. I've been reluctant to pull them and relist, but I need more slots free. I decide to relist 3 of them at 16.1 million each.
I'm in the mood to roll on a hero merit. Nina has 662 regular merits. I convert 50 and roll: Numina's Convalescense +regen +recovery (score!), Aegis +psionic and mez resist; Obliteration Chance for smashing damage; Touch of deaht dam/end/rech x2. Not bad all around.

I craft. I list the Numina's for 76 million.

I get tired of waiting for other salvage buys to go through, so I end there.

End Money: 727 million

Still in search of more money for my Widow.

Log in: Black Unicorn, 50 tank (Freedom)
Last logged: 6 days ago
Money: 734 million

14 items sold: Mako's Bite acc/end/rech 1 for 10 million, 3 for 7 million. Mako's Bite dam/end 8 for 10 million and 2 for 12 million.

I have 6 more triples ready to list. I list them for 7.1 million each.

I have 10x Mako's dam/rech, 10x acc/dam, and 10x Mako's quad purchased, along with 10x pangean soil.

I craft 10 quads and list them at 8.1 mil each. I craft 10 acc/dam for later, and place a bid on 10 Magical Conspiracy at 2.2 mil each.

I send 100 million to my Widow fund.

End Money: 722 million

Log in: Mouse Police, 42 blaster (Freedom)
Last logged: 6 days ago
Money: 330 million. Hmm, don't remember why this toon is so poor.
5 items sold: Gift of the Ancients Defense 4 for 22 million, 1 for 21 million
Ah, that's right. I have a bunch of bids on Luck of the Gambler defense and 7.5% global recharge recipes in the 30-33 range. That's where my money went!

I have purchased: 10x Soul Trapped gem at 2.3 million each; 10x Gift of the Ancients Defense at 2 million each (nice!); 3x Luck of the Gambler Defense level 30 bought for 16.2 million, 1 Luck of the Gambler level 31 bought for 16.1 million; 1 Luck of the Gambler +7.5% global recharge bought for 112 million. I have outstanding bids for more of the same, but this is a good haul. ^_^
I craft the Luck of the Gamblers and mail them to myself, for storage in my Virtue base. By this point I've managed to buy just one Scientific Law -- there are only 27 for sale -- so I can only craft 1 of 10 Gift of the Ancient Defense IOs. I list it for 19.1 million. I'll have to come back later to craft the rest.

Ending Money: 414 million

Log in: Mouse Police 50 scrapper (Victory)
Last logged: 6 days ago
Money: 759 milion

4 items sold; Decimation acc/dam/rech 2 for 20 million, 2 for 18 million.
I have 20 Decimation acc/end/rech and 10 acc/dam/rech purchased. I'm getting sick of those IOs. I only have 4 of 10 dam/end purchased and1 of 10 dam/rech.

Meh. I put in bids for all the salvage needed for both triple sets -- I bid just 2 million on the rare salvage. We'll see how that goes.

End Money: 786 million

Now for the answer to a question you might not have actually asked, "What does all of this marketeering get me?"

In my case, it gets me this:



This is Miss Shinobu, my Night Widow. As of a few hours ago she's level 50 and has a nearly complete build. It's a very expensive build, based on Top Doc's High End Night Widow build guide.

Here's my actual build:

Villain Plan by Mids' Villain Designer 1.92
http://www.cohplanner.com/

Click this DataLink to open the build!

Miss Shinobu TopDoc Build/: Level 50 Natural Arachnos Widow
Primary Power Set: Night Widow Training
Secondary Power Set: Widow Teamwork
Power Pool: Speed
Power Pool: Teleportation
Power Pool: Leaping
Power Pool: Medicine
Ancillary Pool: Soul Mastery

Villain Profile:
Level 1: Swipe -- C'ngImp-Dmg/EndRdx(A), C'ngImp-Dmg/Rchg(29), C'ngImp-Acc/Dmg/Rchg(37), C'ngImp-Acc/Dmg/EndRdx(37), C'ngImp-Dmg/EndRdx/Rchg(39), Mako-Dam%(48)
Level 1: Combat Training: Defensive -- LkGmblr-Def(A), LkGmblr-Rchg+(3)
Level 2: Strike -- Hectmb-Dmg(A), Hectmb-Acc/Dmg/Rchg(3), Hectmb-Acc/Rchg(11), Hectmb-Dmg/EndRdx(13), Hectmb-Dam%(13), EndRdx-I(15)
Level 4: Tactical Training: Maneuvers -- RedFtn-Def/EndRdx(A), RedFtn-Def/Rchg(5), RedFtn-Def/EndRdx/Rchg(5), RedFtn-Def(9), RedFtn-EndRdx(33), LkGmblr-Rchg+(40)
Level 6: Hasten -- RechRdx-I(A), RechRdx-I(7), RechRdx-I(7)
Level 8: Follow Up -- C'ngImp-Dmg/EndRdx(A), C'ngImp-Dmg/Rchg(9), C'ngImp-Acc/Dmg/Rchg(11), C'ngImp-Acc/Dmg/EndRdx(19), C'ngImp-Dmg/EndRdx/Rchg(19), Mako-Dam%(39)
Level 10: Indomitable Will -- EndRdx-I(A)
Level 12: Lunge -- C'ngImp-Dmg/EndRdx(A), C'ngImp-Dmg/Rchg(15), C'ngImp-Acc/Dmg/Rchg(17), C'ngImp-Acc/Dmg/EndRdx(17), C'ngImp-Dmg/EndRdx/Rchg(40), Mako-Dam%(46)
Level 14: Super Speed -- Winter-ResSlow(A), Zephyr-Travel(34), Zephyr-Travel/EndRdx(34), Zephyr-ResKB(39)
Level 16: Recall Friend -- RechRdx-I(A)
Level 18: Combat Training: Offensive -- Acc-I(A)
Level 20: Combat Jumping -- Zephyr-Travel(A), Zephyr-Travel/EndRdx(33), Zephyr-ResKB(43)
Level 22: Foresight -- DefBuff-I(A), LkGmblr-Def(23), S'fstPrt-ResDam/Def+(27), LkGmblr-Rchg+(46)
Level 24: Mind Link -- RedFtn-Def/EndRdx(A), RedFtn-Def/Rchg(25), RedFtn-Def/EndRdx/Rchg(25), RedFtn-Def(29), RedFtn-EndRdx(33), LkGmblr-Rchg+(40)
Level 26: Mask Presence -- HO:Cyto(A), HO:Cyto(48)
Level 28: Aid Other -- Heal-I(A)
Level 30: Aid Self -- Mrcl-Heal/EndRdx(A), Mrcl-Heal/Rchg(31), Mrcl-Heal/EndRdx/Rchg(31), Mrcl-Heal(31)
Level 32: Resuscitate -- RechRdx-I(A)
Level 35: Spin -- Armgdn-Dmg(A), Armgdn-Acc/Dmg/Rchg(36), Armgdn-Acc/Rchg(36), Armgdn-Dmg/EndRdx(36), Armgdn-Dam%(37)
Level 38: Mental Training -- Run-I(A)
Level 41: Gloom -- Apoc-Dmg(A), Apoc-Acc/Dmg/Rchg(42), Apoc-Acc/Rchg(42), Apoc-Dmg/EndRdx(42), Apoc-Dam%(43), EndRdx-I(43)
Level 44: Dart Burst -- Ragnrk-Dmg(A), Ragnrk-Acc/Dmg/Rchg(45), Ragnrk-Acc/Rchg(45), Ragnrk-Dmg/EndRdx(45), Ragnrk-Knock%(46)
Level 47: Tactical Training: Leadership -- HO:Cyto(A), HO:Cyto(48)
Level 49: Tactical Training: Assault -- EndRdx-I(A), EndRdx-I(50)
Level 0: Born In Battle
Level 0: High Pain Threshold
Level 0: Invader
Level 0: Marshal
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Level 1: Brawl -- Empty(A)
Level 1: Sprint -- Empty(A)
Level 2: Rest -- RechRdx-I(A)
Level 1: Conditioning
Level 4: Ninja Run
Level 2: Swift -- Run-I(A)
Level 2: Health -- RgnTis-Regen+(A), Mrcl-Rcvry+(23), Mrcl-Heal(27), Numna-Regen/Rcvry+(34), Numna-Heal(50)
Level 2: Hurdle -- Jump-I(A)
Level 2: Stamina -- P'Shift-End%(A), P'Shift-EndMod(21), P'Shift-EndMod/Acc(21), P'Shift-EndMod/Rchg(50)
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I still have a bid out on an Apocalypse Acc/Rech, but it's a good bid and should fill in a couple of days. I've already opened up my alpha slot as well. I spent 300 million a piece on the 4 Cytoskeleton Exposures because I didn't want to wait. I paid BUY IT NAO prices!

And what does all that accomplish?

Well, supposedly this is a build that can solo AVs and Pylons. What I've learned so far is what you always learn from an all-defense build: you can be awesome, or you can be suddenly dead. In order to hit 50 this morning I ran the Mender Silos Task Force set for +2 and 8 people (no AVs, just EBs). I found that I was using a lot of inspirations and having to heal myself a lot, but I managed to never die even when swamped with enemies. I came close several times -- Nosferatu died off, but Burk held out and we cleared the map together.

The big difference between level 49 and level 50 is that there's no gap when Mind Link is down -- I can fire it again before it wears off, whereas at level 49 without all of those nice purples there was always several seconds where my defense dropped from above 50% fo about 37% percent (I usually watch melee defense -- ranged and aoe defense are just slightly lower). Also, at level 50 with the Hami-O's my defensive numbers are several points higher.

With no powers on:



With all of my toggles on:



(As you can see, at level 50 my melee defense is over 45% even without Mind Link.)

With Mind Link up (which is perma as long as I don't forget to click it):



On teams with other SoA's, or shield scrappers/brutes/tanks with grant cover, or support toons with Leadership/Manuevers, my defense can climb up in the 80% to 90% range. ^_^ And yet I still get hit, of course. Just not a lot. But on a widow, those few hits can hurt!

An annoying downside to being a softcapped Widow is that you don't create aggro, so when enemies can't hit you they often decide to run away. My entire fight with Nosferatu consisted of me chasing him all over the map trying to hit him. :P

Another aside: I ran a Manticore TF last night. As the first missions started, our brute realized there were no other brutes or tanks on the team. "Oh man, you mean I have to be the main tank?" he complained. "They're only crey," I said. After all, with my defense I could take the alphas if I wanted -- I just couldn't hold aggro. "But I'm just a level 30 fire brute," he replied.

After a few groups, he said, "I don't seem to be as squishy as normal." Heh. Not only did he have defensive buffs from me, but also from two shield scrappers and a troller with Manuevers. By the 2nd mission, he was running ahead of the team to herd full rooms and bring them back to us!



I ran the Trapdoor mission still set at +2/8 people. I tried to stealth it, but in a crowded cavern bane spiders can see you run past them. So I had more wading through crowds of enemies and frantically healing myself and chewing inspirations -- and I still managed to not die, although it was close several times.

After that I reset to +0/1 person, and I basically ignored the rikti in the next mission and just went after the AVs. Pretty easy. ^_^

Anyway this has been my big project for the last 2-3 weeks. Started playing my Night Widow again about March 7th, at level 27, and started putting in bids for all of those purple IOs. Three weeks to an awesome build!

I think at some point in the future I'd like to work out another top-end build, and then start at level 1 and, without PLing or borrowing money from any of my other toons, see if I can get to 50 and complete the build in a month. Realistically it couldn't be a build like this one, full of purples and hami-O's. I had to use all of my marketeers to come up with the money, and in the end I grabbed another 1.5 billion from various toons to finish off the build. But a non-purpled but very expensive build, I think you could manage it on your own in a month or maybe 6 weeks. ^_^

Take one of the endurance reduction from TT:A and put the Fury of the Gladiator:Chance for -Res Proc into Spin.

Oh, so you want me to spend even more money?

Yeah, okay, maybe that's next week's project.

(Have no idea what that would cost atm, but sounds like a good idea.)

Makes perfect sense. I can get that in a few days at most.

I'm glad I've got smart people to figure things like this out for me. ^_^ One of the reasons I go to a build like Top Doc's in the first place is that most of these things are already figured out. I enjoy top end builds, but I don't really get into the numbers overly much. Builds that I create on my own tend to accomplish what I want, but could all probably be improved... heh.

Hmm. You have found one of my niches. I don't remember what exactly I was *doing* in that niche 3 weeks ago, but I bet we've been competing at least a bit.

Awesome thread, I try to explain to freinds about the Market but after 20 mins I sound like i'm blabbering to be honest. I'm going to add this to favorites and copy and paste, (Hey here'a good example of how the market works). My technique is at a much lower rate, I'll craft and sell of what I have doubles on and store the rest until a new 50 comes along, even on purples. I have both the sets and money already there. Great read I apprciate you showing everyone your work!

Bought my Fury of the Gladiator proc this morning for 921 million. ^_^ A nice thing about keeping around 700 million per marketeer is that I can bleed off 200 million from five of them and instantly have a billion to throw around!

So yesterday I joined an ITF on Miss Shinobu the widow, and before the last mission I was able to craft and slot my tier1 alpha. Not bad considering I turned 50 Sat afternoon. ^_^ Of course, running Crimson's arc up to the point where the Kronos Titan spawns five times Between 12:00 AM Sunday and 6 PM Sunday helped a lot, I got about 9 shards that way plus an Armageddon. ^_^

Tonight I ran Manticore twice -- once on my night widow, and once on Nina Ballerina. Because Nina is my go-to toon for hami raiding, she's ended up being my "most alpha'd" toon. I am close to having the tier 4 alpha slot on her, need another notice of the well and a handful of shards to do it. But I've been working late all week so no hami raids this week for me.

Sunday March 13 2011

Wasn't going to market today but my Widow has less than 20 million and I want to convert merits to amerits. So...

Log in: Liberty or Debt, 44 blaster
Last logged: 14 days ago
Money: 416 million

Nothing sold, but I have stuff bought ready to craft. 10x Miracle Heal bought for 1.2 mil each, 10x Miracle heal/end bought for 12,000 each, and all the salvage.

Craft and list all 10 Miracle Heals at 20.1 million each. Craft 10 Miracle Heal/End and list 6 of them for 10.1 mil each.

Ship 100 million to my Widow

End Money; 299 million

Claim my 100 million, convert 50 merits, use 2 amerits to buy a Miracle +recovery. My Widow is now 36 and rolling right along! Still only have the Hectacomb set bought, but I'll have more money to spend by mid week I think.

Monday March 14 2011

Logged in: Wall Street Brawler 27 scrapper
Last logged: 4 days ago
Money: 396 million

12 items sold: Scirocco's Dervish dam/end, 10 for 10 million each. Scirocco's Dervish dam/rech, 2 for 14 million each.

Can't get any more neat and straightforward than that.

I have 8 more Scirocco's Dervish dam/rech to sell, and there are only 14 for sale at the moment. Aha! I have an opportunity to up my list price a bit here, I think. 3 of last 5 are for 15 million, so I list for 14.1 million.

I also have 10 more of the same recipe to craft, with rare salvage already purchased. 10 Scirocco's Dervish dam/rech bought for 12,000 each; 10 Hamidon Goo bought for 2.7 mil each. I buy the other salvage and craft.

I list 6 more at 14.1 million

End money: 502 million

Logged in: Nina Ballerina
Last logged: 2 days ago
Money: 727 million

13 items sold: Decimation acc/dam rech, 7 for 20million, 2 for 21 million, 1 for 22,123,123, for 17 million, Devastation acc/dam for 10 million, Numina's Convalescence +regen/recovery for 85 million.

Not bad! I decide to convert merits and do an a-merit roll, 35-39: Touch of Death dam/end/rech, Aegis end/rech/res, Obliteration chance for smashing damage, Trap of the Hunter acc/immob/rech (Joy! :P ) and Aegis end/rech.

(In between I join 2 hami raids: 3 shards + 4 shard reward on 1st raid, 5 shards + 53 merits on 2nd. All for about 1 1/2 hours of work. )

I list two Oblit procs for 36.2 million each. I list 3 Touch of Death dam/end/rech for 8.6 million each. Aegis resisst/end/rech for 13.1 mil, Aegist end/rech for 15.1 mil, Aegis psionic/status resisst for 13.1 mil. Red Fortune def/end for 7.1 mil. That's everything I have to list, from two amerit rolls and a random drop. I vendor the Trap of the Hunter, of course.

I place bids on 10x Touch of Death dam/rech for 221,000 each, and 10x Touch of Death acc/dam for 601,000 each. I also have a bid in for 10x Military Cybernetic for 2.6 mil each.

I ship 250 million to my Widow fund.

End Money: 698 million

Logged in: Valentine Candy 47 defender
Last logged: 8 days ago
Money: 576 million

18 items sold: Efficacy Adaptor end mod 6 or 5 mil, 2 for 5,000,003, Performance Shifter end mod/acc 3 for 12 million 2 for 11 million, 1 for 17.5 million, 1 for 17.51 million, 2 for 20 million, 1 for 22 million.

Bid on 10x Performance Shifter end mod/rech for 601,000 each, 10x performance Shifter end mod/acc for 601,000 each, 20x Efficacy Adaptor end mod/acc for 2,000 each

End Money: 746 million

Log in: Mouse Police 50 scrapper
Last logged: 2 days ago
Money: 388 million

10 items sold: Touch of Death acc/dam/end 3 for 11 mil, 2 for 11,111,111, 1 for 13,333,333, 3 for 15 mil, 1 for 10.5 mil

I have 3 more to list. I list them for 10.1 mil each.

I have 10 ToD dam/rech waiting to craft. I bid on salvage: 10 Military Cybernetics at 2.2 mil each, 10 Ensorcelled Weapons at 112,000 each, also Demonic Blood Samples and Inert Gas for much cheaper.

Bid on 10x ToD dam/end/rech for 601,000 each and 10x ToD acc/dam/end for 151,000 each.

End Money: 472 million