Zero to Awesome (30 day project)

Day 8 (Aug 9 2011)

Market: Sold the last of my Efficacy Adaptor IOs. I had 20 of them total, and they don't make a ton of money but at least they sell for a profit.

Merits: I collected explore badge accolades for Galaxy, King's Row, Steel Canyon, Skyway, Faultline, Perez, Boomtown, Independence Port, Terra Volta. I think that was it. By my count, that's 50 merits earned.

Levels: I joined a team running radio and tip missions and gained two levels. At one point, everyone on the team was a villain AT. That's kind of what this game has come to -- go heroside to find a team, join a team full of villain archetypes.

This was the kind of team that liked to turn the difficulty up very high, but it was not the kind of team with a brute or tank that could actually handle it. Our leader was an electric/electric brute, no set IO bonuses, so very squishy. I have a level 50 electric armor tank, I know the feeling. This became a big problem when we ran a Nemesis mission with all of their AoEs, but even after that on a Council mission we had multiple team wipes. Also, I was forced into more of a healer role, since our other corrs were /traps and /storm, but a kin healer against +3 and +4 is really asking for trouble. So we added another kin corr. /em sighs. Anyway, after multiple team wipes in the jail cell Council room (nobody on the team seemed to have any defense to speak of), I went and got my scrapper Nina Ballerina and kicked their Council *****, and then stayed with the team for another mission until everyone was out of debt. ^_^

But before that, I'd hit 26 on AE Baby. I figure if I do nothing more than gain a level a day I'll hit 50 by the end of August. But I expect to do much better than that with the way I play, and with double exp weekend coming up. I should have time after hitting 50 to concentrate on finishing IO'ing the character and running some incarnate content. ^_^

Day 9 - Aug 10th


Villain Plan by Mids' Villain Designer 1.942
http://www.cohplanner.com/

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Level 50 Magic Corruptor
Primary Power Set: Fire Blast
Secondary Power Set: Kinetics
Power Pool: Leaping
Power Pool: Fighting
Power Pool: Leadership
Power Pool: Speed
Ancillary Pool: Mace Mastery

Villain Profile:
Level 1: Fire Blast -- Decim-Acc/Dmg(A), Decim-Dmg/EndRdx(3), Decim-Dmg/Rchg(7), Decim-Acc/EndRdx/Rchg(29), Decim-Acc/Dmg/Rchg(34)
Level 1: Transfusion -- Nictus-Heal(A), Nictus-Heal/HP/Regen/Rchg(3), Nictus-Acc/Heal(5), Nictus-%Dam(11), Nictus-Acc/EndRdx/Rchg(29)
Level 2: Fire Ball -- Posi-Acc/Dmg(A), Posi-Dmg/EndRdx(5), Posi-Dmg/Rchg(7), Posi-Dmg/Rng(13), Posi-Acc/Dmg/EndRdx(21), Ragnrk-Knock%(40)
Level 4: Siphon Power -- Acc-I(A), RechRdx-I(9)
Level 6: Combat Jumping -- LkGmblr-Rchg+(A), DefBuff-I(15), LkGmblr-Def(37)
Level 8: Fire Breath -- Posi-Acc/Dmg(A), Posi-Dmg/EndRdx(9), Posi-Dmg/Rchg(11), Posi-Dmg/Rng(15), Posi-Acc/Dmg/EndRdx(21), RechRdx-I(50)
Level 10: Siphon Speed -- Acc-I(A), RechRdx-I(13), RechRdx-I(43)
Level 12: Boxing -- KntkC'bat-Acc/Dmg(A), KntkC'bat-Dmg/EndRdx(40), KntkC'bat-Dmg/Rchg(40), KntkC'bat-Knock%(42)
Level 14: Tough -- S'fstPrt-ResDam/Def+(A), S'fstPrt-ResKB(43)
Level 16: Maneuvers -- LkGmblr-Rchg+(A), HO:Enzym(17), HO:Enzym(17)
Level 18: Blaze -- Decim-Acc/Dmg/Rchg(A), Decim-Acc/Dmg(19), Decim-Dmg/EndRdx(19), Decim-Dmg/Rchg(34), Decim-Acc/EndRdx/Rchg(37)
Level 20: Speed Boost -- Efficacy-EndMod/Rchg(A)
Level 22: Weave -- LkGmblr-Rchg+(A), LkGmblr-Def(23), HO:Enzym(23)
Level 24: Aim -- Rec'dRet-ToHit(A), Rec'dRet-ToHit/Rchg(25), RechRdx-I(43)
Level 26: Hasten -- RechRdx-I(A), RechRdx-I(27), RechRdx-I(27)
Level 28: Super Speed -- Winter-ResSlow(A)
Level 30: Increase Density -- RctvArm-ResDam/EndRdx(A), RctvArm-ResDam/Rchg(31), RctvArm-EndRdx/Rchg(31), RctvArm-ResDam(31)
Level 32: Inferno -- Oblit-Dmg(A), Oblit-Acc/Rchg(33), Oblit-Dmg/Rchg(33), Oblit-Acc/Dmg/Rchg(33), Oblit-Acc/Dmg/EndRdx/Rchg(34)
Level 35: Transference -- RechRdx-I(A), Efficacy-EndMod/Acc/Rchg(36), Efficacy-EndMod/Rchg(36), Efficacy-Acc/Rchg(36), Efficacy-EndMod/Acc(37)
Level 38: Fulcrum Shift -- Acc-I(A), Acc-I(39), RechRdx-I(39), RechRdx-I(39)
Level 41: Scorpion Shield -- LkGmblr-Rchg+(A), LkGmblr-Def(42), HO:Enzym(42)
Level 44: Web Envelope -- Enf'dOp-Acc/Rchg(A), Enf'dOp-EndRdx/Immob(45), Enf'dOp-Acc/EndRdx(46), Enf'dOp-Immob/Rng(46), Enf'dOp-Acc/Immob/Rchg(46), Enf'dOp-Acc/Immob(50)
Level 47: Rain of Fire -- Posi-Acc/Dmg/EndRdx(A), Posi-Acc/Dmg(48), Posi-Dmg/EndRdx(48), Posi-Dmg/Rchg(48), Posi-Dmg/Rng(50)
Level 49: Vengeance -- LkGmblr-Rchg+(A)
Level 0: Born In Battle
Level 0: High Pain Threshold
Level 0: Invader
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Level 1: Brawl -- Empty(A)
Level 1: Sprint -- ULeap-Stlth(A)
Level 2: Rest -- RechRdx-I(A)
Level 1: Scourge
Level 4: Ninja Run
Level 2: Swift -- Run-I(A)
Level 2: Hurdle -- Jump-I(A)
Level 2: Health -- Numna-Regen/Rcvry+(A), Mrcl-Rcvry+(45)
Level 2: Stamina -- P'Shift-EndMod(A), EndMod-I(25), P'Shift-End%(45)

This is the build I'm currently working on... slightly modified from one posted in the thread that I linked earlier. Probably the most expensive things in it that I will actually have to buy are the Enzymes, but I won't need those until 50 so we'll see if I can afford them by the end of the month.

The Miracle and Numi uniques I will get with merits, and the LotG +recharges, and maybe some of the other fancy IOs too. Of the stuff that's left, I supposed the Luck of the Gambler defense IOs, the Reactive Armor IOs, and the Kinetic Combat IOs are going to be the most expensive... although since the Kinetic Combat is a mule set I can go with low level IOs that are cheaper.

In the meantime, aware that DXP is about to start -- someone said they were going to start it tomorrow? -- and that prices on everything will likely go up, I decided that I should buy the recipes I want now rather than later. So that's most of what I did tonight.

I bought a lot of level 29 recipes. When level 29 sells for 1 million and level 30 sells for 15 million, I know which one I want to buy. Overall I think I spent 75 to 95 million on recipes and crafting, and in bids for recipes that I need... I started with about 250 million and ended with about 160 million. I picked up most of the two Decimation sets and most of the Positron's Blast sets, and most of the Touch of Nictus set. I have bids in for most of what I don't have. That's it so far.



I only sold a couple of LotG def/rech IOs today. Once again, the market is flooded with them and they sell better on the weekend. But I'd rather peddle those now and save the better-selling stuff for the big DXP weekend. ^_^

I was crafting in the Vanguard base and got invited to a team... which turned out to be a villain team. We ran several missions and I made it to level 27. I'm definitely feeling more powerful with the IOs I have now, and very useful on a team. ^_^

The last two posts were made after midnight so, when you say "tomorrow", you really mean TODAY! OMG OMG OMG!

Enjoying reading this so far! ^_^
Also I really like the build you modified... but... You only have Maneuvers, can't have Vengeance without something else from the pool... even with the i21 changes you'll still need 2 powers to get the Tier 4.

very interesting Thread... I'm digging the progress you're making... One think I would like (if you don't mind) is a Inf Count at the end of the day.


*Sitting back with some popcorn and candy. What's next?

Day 10 - Aug 11 2011
First day of double exp weekend!

When I got home I'd sold five LotG def/rech IOs. That was a nice surprise. ^_^ I managed to buy a few more of the IOs that I need for my build, and then I put in a new bid for 10 Performance Shifter end/rech recipes. Then I was invited to a villain rogue tip team. Not only did I gain two levels (on a rather mediocre team -- the people were fun, but the brute had mastered "run ahead and jump into group of enemies" well ahead of "survive alpha" so not only was I once again drafted into a "heal first, blast later" role, but quite often I got there in time to see the brute die and to have everything turn on me. It seemed everyone on the team was playing with red SOs or with a deficient build of some sort, because they all commented on it at one point or another.

But! Two levels, and also during the time I was on the team my Performance Shifter bid completely filled! I also was able (via /auctionhouse) to bid on salvage in between missions, so that when we broke up I could craft my10 IOs and put one of them up for sale.

Then I moved blueside hoping to find a better team, which I did. I joined a team running Posi 1 & 2. Another fun team, and one that didn't team wipe even once. That's always a bonus! And with the extra WST end-of-mission exp bonuses and the merit bonuses, I ended at level 33, more than halfway to 34, and with 195 merits banked so far.



I also sold most of the Performance Shifter IOs. My net gain was virtually nil, since I was also spending money -- a Decimation, a Positron's Blast, a Steadfast Protection +3% def, a couple of Touch of the Nictus IOs, one Obliteration dam/rech (and a bid on a triple). But things are moving along nicely now!

Current marketing strategy:

I still have a Gift of the Ancients defense IO for sale. It's been listed slightly too high, but I am assuming it will sell over the weekend so I kept it up.

I've listed several Eradication IOs, and these I also listed high. There weren't many for sale, so again, I'm hoping people will pay more for them this weekend.

I was selling my Performance Shifter end/rech IOs last night for about 9 million. I listed these at 8.1 million, and the first few sold for 10 or 11 million, but then the price dropped to 9 million. I kept listing them at the same price because I only had one for sale at a time, and everything else I have listed is not moving as of yet, and I'd bought those Performance Shifter recipes only hours earlier specifically to have something that I knew would sell right away. But overnight I listed the last one I had for 9,000,001, and it sold for 10 million.

Also overnight I put in another bid for 10 Performance Shifter end/rech recipes for 636,000 each and bought 9 of them. I'm bidding on salvage now.

I have stuffed in e-mail several more Performance Shifter end/rech recipes and several crafted IOs, and some crafted Eradification IOs, and also a couple of random recipes and IOs that I got as drops. I've been using e-mail to juggle everything.

Overnight I also got my bid on an Obliteration triple, level 30. So I now have the dam/rech and the triple, which were the two easiest pieces to come by. I placed a bid on an Oblit damage recipe. All of the others are more expensive and harder to come by, especially on a DXP weekend, so we'll see how that goes. I've only bought one of the four Kinetic Combats I need, and none of the Reactive Armors or the Luck of the Gambler's.

Day 11 (Aug 12)

Nothing sold while I was at work, but when I got home I had purchased afew things: 1 Positron's Blast dam/acc/end level 29 for 10 million, 1 Obliteration damage level 30 for 3.1 million, and 10 Performance Shifter end/rech level 50 for 640,000 each.

Of course, I still have at least 10 of those IOs sitting around already... so I need to get busy selling them.

But first I went on another buying spree. I purchased & crafted:

3 Positron's Blast dam/end level 33 for 7 million each
1 Positron's Blast dam/acc/end level 31 for 12 million
1 Kinetic Combat acc/dam level 20 for 1.6 million
1 Obliteration acc/rech level 34 for 1 million
1 Kinetic Combat dam/end level 21 for 32 million

Now all I need for my Oblit set is the quad, and for my Kinetic Combat set the triple... I put in a bid on the KC triple... there are a couple for sale but for more than 50 million, I'm hoping to get it cheaper than that.

After that I bought:

1 Steafast Protection KB Protection level 30 for 1.5 million
2 Karma def/end level 30 for 200,000
1 Kismet def/end level 30 for 100,000

(The Kismet and Karma defense IOs are cheap placeholders in Weave and Combat Jumping since I don't expect to have the actual IOs I want for some time.)

Then I had a bit of an epiphany -- those Reactive Armor IOs that I needed to buy were sort of a mule set -- I mean, it's nice to get recharge and defense and endurance into Increase Density, but I'm really four-slotting ID because of the set bonuses. So I don't really need high-level (or even mid-level) IOs, do I?

High level Reactive Armor recipes can be pricey. Low level ones are dirt cheap.

So I bought:

Reactive Armor: end/rech level 24 20,000, end/res level 22 500,000, rech/res level 24 50,000, and resistance level 24 500,000. I also bought a Reactive Armor end/rech/res (triple) level 24 for 500,000 just because I'm used to buying the four that grant resistance. And maybe I want it anyway, not sure... it's not like the power really needs extra recharge or endurance reduction.

But basically I spent money:





(My build after I was done)

Anyway after that I listed a couple of Performance Shifters for sale and decided to actually play the game.

I collected all the explore badges for Croatoa, Dark Astoria, Founder's, Brickstown, and Crey's Folly. That's 25 merits. Then I got invited to a random mission PuG, and did 2 1/2 missions with them, which got me to level 34.

At that point some friends were starting a Synapse, and that sounded ideal -- I wanted the badge, it's lots of merits, and it's long so I'd gain levels. We ran this in 1 hour 46 minutes. At the end I had 280 merits total and I was level 36.





Unfortunately nothing sold the whole evening. I've learned once again that you can list something for, say, 10.1 million and it will not sell for days, or you can list it for 10,000,001 and it will sell in five minutes for well over 10 mil. In this case, the two Performance Shifter IOs I listed earlier in the evening still have not sold, but one I listed for slightly lower at the end of the evening sold immediately.

I headed back to Cap Au Diable to do my 30 costume mission and to start the Midnighter's arc. That was my day.

Day 12 (Sat Aug 13) - Part 1

Saturday morning DXP weekend: I woke up and decided to check the market. Sold three Performance Shifter IOs overnight, woo. Then I saw someone forming a Tarikoss. Hey, I did Posi 1 & 2, why not hit the WST trifecta? So I joined up.





That got me to 37 and I also sold another Performance Shifter.

After that I finished my new level 30 costume (and went back and redid it twice, and I still don't like it much) and then I ran my Midnighter's arc. When that was done I wandered in to Cimemora and said hi to Imperious and also ran the "say hi to a lot of Cimemorans" mission. So that's 13 merits for Tarikoss, 9 merits for Midnighter's arc, and 1 merit each for Impy & the Cims. (Sounds like a band name.)

I checked the market while in Cim and found a level 39 Unbounded Leap stealth IO for sale. I had a bid up on a different level for 13 million, I bid 13 mil on this one and bought it. Score! Stealth comes to me at last! I was really feeling kind of useless on all of those TFs without it.

Before I could craft my new stealth IO, I decided to join an ITF that was forming. The guy that was doing it was shouting all in caps for people to join, which should have been a big clue, but instead it turned into a joke about us being "Task Force Shiftlock" (someone said they'd been hoping for "task force ee cummings"). So the guy proceeds to invite seven people, and when everyone's in zone, announces that his friend wants to join and wants to know who he should kick? "AE BABY, YOU LOOK PRETTY USELESS," he says. I have no idea what he's basing this assessment on, maybe the name or maybe my low level, or maybe he's just an idiot. "BUT YOU WERE THE FIRST TO JOIN," he adds. He tells someone else he's about to kick them instead -- complete with another insult -- when a third person just quits. So then he invites his friend.

"Someone set a mission for me," his friend says.

"GET YOUR A$$ IN ZONE AND I WILL," the leader replies.

"Your friend wants to use the mission teleporter," I say... pointing out what seems obvious to me.

"SOMEONE GRAB A THROWAWAY MISSION," the leader says. Almost at the same time, he asks his friend if they have Midnighter's club access.

"No," is the reply.

"THEN YOU'RE DEAD TO ME!" he exclaims, and promptly kicks them.

He starts to advertise for another team member, but another person quits. And another.

"EVERYONE'S QUITTING," he exclaims. "F THIS!" And he promptly quits, just as I was telling a friend that I really didn't know about this team I was on.

So... probably a good thing in retrospect. I join a different ITF. This one also has a lot of sub-50 characters. Hey, it's DXP weekend! So the leader decides to put the only level 50 on the team in charge. She's never run an ITF before, but that's okay. We go slow.

Boy, do we go slow. One of the two tanks -- the one with taunt of course -- is very squishy -- though he does have a self-rez power. Maybe to counterbalance this, we have a stalker who is one of the least squishy people on the team... but mostly we have a sub-50 squishy team, that wants experience anyway. So we work our way slowly through the first two missions. After this, someone says they have to go and quits. In the third mission, our scrapper dies (very squishy scrapper -- tho it's easy to be squishy on an ITF), asks for a wakie, and as far as anyone can tell quits because nobody gives her one. In any case, she vanishes and does not come back.

This is a bit of a blow because we don't have a lot of damage. On the other hand, I've hit 38 and picked up Fulcrum Shift -- unslotted, but still a game changer. ^_^

The third mission resets itself again after we're finished with it. We stand around and discuss it, send a petition, I advise everyone to log off and back on... in the end we get it to set the fourth mission but it wastes about 20 minutes or so.

We work our way down the left hand path. We clear, we explain strategy so everyone understands, we've made sure everyone stocked up on purples previously, and we pull Rommy to the grass. We have Impy on our side, we have fulcrum shift, we have a very busy fire/kin in fact... heal, fulcrum shift, siphon power, attack, oh people want speed boost again! But I certainly felt useful!

And... that took nearly two and a half hours, but we marched all the way through. It's a very good clinic for the person who's new to the ITF. I hit level 39 and halfway to level 40. and 26 more merits! I'm at 330 now.

After, I crafted and slotted my stealth IO, placed bids on an Oblit quad and a Performance Shifter +endurance and logged off.

Day 12 (part 2)

Over the course of the day sold at least 10 more Performance Shifter IOs. Those at least are making money for me, but I only have a couple left to sell.

Bought a Performance Shifter chance for +endurance level 42 recipe for 26 million, and a Obliteration level 38 quad recipe for 51 million. Also my last Positron's Blast recipe bid came in, so now I'm bidding on the Rectified Reticle recipes (also expensive) and still trying to get a Kinetic Combat triple and a Touch of the Nictus acc/end/rech.

Basically I'm spending money as fast as I make it, and buying odd-level IOs that are available for the going rate. But these are IOs that have few copies for sale on the market beside the max level, so I want to snap them up if and when I can. My Oblit set is now complete, and I have all my Decimation and Positron's Blast IOs so that's 6.25% rechage x 5 and 5% recharge from the Oblit. ^_^

I took a break and when I came back I crafted a few generic IOs needed for my build -- accuracy and recharge. I did these at level 35. Then a friend asked me to join a hero tips team. Not that I want to become a hero, but it was good experience.

Something about DXP weekend: nearly everyone you team with is playing a new character that they're leveling. You don't get many awesome builds or characters with incarnate powers. But you still get people that think they can turn a longbow mission up to +4, with enemies as much as +5 to most of the team, and if the team fails it's because the other players suck and they just need to find a better team.

Anyway, after that idiot quit we went on to run several missions over more than an hour. Then four of us (including my friend and I) joined a Manticore TF. This went fairly slowly too since we mostly didn't stealth -- but I got to employ my new stealth ability on the glowy mission at least. We finished in under an hour and a half, I got more merits (up to 362) and I was level 42 and close to 43 by the end.

And the best part? I got my first very useful drop -- a level 35 Blessing of the Zephyr 4 points KB protection. What incredible luck! I slotted it in super speed. I also have the Steadfast Protection in Tough, and now I will definitely have to rework my build so that I keep the Karma KB protection that I currently have in Manuevers. I absolutely hate getting knocked down, and 12 points protection is the cure.

(I had read somewhere that 4 points would protect you from a lot of things, and 12 points would protect you from virtually everything else, but that there was nothing in between 4 and 12 points that having 8 points of knockback protection would help you with -- however when I only had 4 points KB protection, earthquakes from CoT mages would still knock me down, but it seemed when I had 8 points protection I wasn't being knocked down anymore. Was that just my imagination, or is 8 points of protection actually useful?)

Anyway, I spent more of my money -- I found a Touch of the Nictus level 37 and bought if for -- I forget, about 5 or 6 million. That completes that set. And I placed a bid on the other Rectified Reticule that I wanted, and also three Luck of Gambler defense recipes (I bought one at level 32 for 9 million).

Lastly I bought all four Efficacy Adaptor recipes that I need for Transference. For these I bought whatever was available, so level 30 for one, level 32 and 33 and 43 for the others. They were mostly quite cheap, though I had to go up to 2 million for one of them.

My build is really coming along.

Lastly I ran my level 40 costume mission and also started my patron arc. Also grabbed the explore badges in St. Martial, so there's 5 more merits, 367 total.

Aww sorry about that ITF, I wish I had seen you on before we formed ours.

We did a kill all for the 1st and 2nd mish and just walked to the the end on the 3rd and 4th, killing as we went.
It only took just about 1hr and I went from 47 to 49 and there were at least 2 purple drops for the team.

Then I did a Manti and it started badly with the leader at lvl 32 so the mobs were +3.
It took them 30 mins into the first mish to listen to me to quit and reform with me as the leader. They were worried that it would take to long that the TF would last 90 to 120 min.

Heh with me plowing through as the leader we finished in 54 min. And I hit 50 along the way, makes 8 on virtue now.

Congrats on the new 50. ^_^

I didn't mind the ITF, it was just... slow. But by the book, and we succeeded, so in the end I had no other complaints, aside from the mission reset bug. Which I can probably blame on the scrapper who quit.

Day 13 -- Part 1

This morning I ran Ghost Widow's patron arc and opened up the patron pools for myself. That netted me 10 merits, and 5 more for the explore badges in Nerva. I also hit level 43 on completion of the arc, which was nice.

I'm still soloing at -1/1, but it's quite easy. With fulcrum shift and Siphon Power I can sometimes boost my damage bonus over 250%, and things die very quickly. I can heal myself and speed myself and regain endurance, all as long as I have an enemy to target. Everything recharges quickly now, so I just mow forward. I'm not sure how well that would work at +0 or +1 though... I'm generally spending time hitting fulcrum shift, siphon power, sipon speed, and maybe heal or transfusion before I even attack, or before I finish the enemies off anyway... so enemies that can hit me often for big damage would be more of a problem. But once I have softcapped smashing/lethal defense that might give me the time to self-buff before unleashing firey death, without dying before I can manage it. (Would depend on the enemy of course.)

But the short answer is... I solo much better than my fire blaster and much better than a defender. I like that. I've played kin defenders, and I have a level 39 fire/kin controller, and the fire/kin corruptor is a lot more fun so far in my opinion.

I headed blueside to Striga Isle for a Moonfire Task Force a friend was running. More merits, took about an hour, and it got me to within a few bubbles of level 44.



I also grabbed all the explore badges in Striga, and afterwards did the same for Peregrine Island and for the four Shadow Shard zones. That's 30 more merits! I'm at 444 merits now.

Market-wise, I've learned that: A) Prices don't necessarily double right away during DXP (they may not at all, we'll see -- some people are avoiding the market this weekend I suspect) B) IOs that are less popular will remain less popular (my Eradications are still not selling -- both priced to high, and not an IO that sees huge demand ever), C) You simply can't predict when something will become scarce enough for the price to jump up, and D)

Everyone likes endurance modification IOs. You really can't go wrong selling those. Therefore, I have bids in for even more Performance Shifter and Efficacy Adaptor IOs, because I can ALWAYS make money selling those.

Not sure if I want to work on AE Baby tonight (end of DXP) or if I want to work on my 41 brute. I have this brute, Shinobu Eden, super strength/invulnerability. I originally made her to keep at level 41 just to run the Eden Trial, but I used her for that a whole one time and now that it's been fixed, I can level her up. Plus, she's currently acting head of Hero Force - Alpha Assault, so it'd be nice to have a head that's level 50, and I've never had a level 50 Super Strength anything before. So that's one of my other goals atm. ^_^

Very good read.

After 4 pages of reading I actually took the time to read what you were saying about buying and selling. For some reason anytime something sounds like work I begin to glaze over the words until I am read blah,blah,blah. But after forcing myself to re-read some of your posts it finally was able to sink in.

After 6 years ( 1 year break for WoW ) I learned a few new things.

Thanks

Then I guess I've been successful. ^_^ Glad to hear it!

My goal isn't really to say that everyone can do exactly what I'm doing... as pointed out I have some big advantages in knowledge and vet rewards, and also I play a lot. But anyone *can* work on a nice build for their character and achieve it, using some of the same tricks.

Anyway...

Day 13 -- part 2

I grabbed explore badges in Grandville and Monster Islands, then I headed to Cim to find an ITF. I did, and it had at least one person on the team who pretty much could survive in a sea of Cimemorans, so there were one or two team wipes except for him, but everything went well. It was a long ITF again -- this one only about 1 and 1/2 hours. But people want to go slow and soak up the experience.

I finished at level 45, close to level 46. I decided to switch to my brute and join another ITF. This also went well -- my brute is softcapped to smashing/lethal, and generally it's not by much so that when I solo, a sea of Cimemorans will debuff me and kill me if I don't chew a purple now and again -- on our team we had a widow, two defenders, a corruptor, and a MM. Several of them were contributing to my defense (the widow the most of course), so that it was always 60% to 70% and sometimes over 100%. So I got to be main tank/brute and did very well at it. Nothing like Invul for holding aggro, I never died, and I went from 41 to almost 44.

I was going to run some tip missions and hit 44 and call it a night, but as I ran through Talos I saw my friend advertising a Citadel. Hmmm... I'd sort of been thinking of getting all six legacy TFs over the weekend, and I'd managed Posi, Synapse, and Manticore. So I switched back to AE Baby and joined the Citadel TF.



End result: I'm at 520 merits, and almost to level 47. So ends my DXP weekend!



My build's slightly messed up though, since I waited until 44 to take Scorpion Shield when I really needed to take it at 41. I'm going to need to respec to fix it. But that can wait until 50 I suppose.

I've sold a lot more Performance Shifter end/rech IOs. I pulled and relisted my last Gift of the Ancients defense IO and it sold for 25 million. I sold a couple of other IOs that I crafted -- random drops. One was a level 24 Performance Shifter endurance IO, that sold for 20 million. I also have a Luck of Gambler level 50 defense recipe that I expect will sell very well.

I haven't decided to pull and relist the Eradication IOs just yet... I'm hoping that prices will spike after DXP weekend as people start to IO the characters they were levelling. But that may be wishful thinking. We'll see.

Very nice read so far.
It seems much like what I do, except more so.

Clearly if I want to make more money on my characters, I need to sell more enhancements.
After writing the above sentence I facepalmed.

Yeah, and considering I've made almost all of my money from selling Performance Shifter end/rech and Efficacy Adaptor end/rech and end/acc IOs... it's really even less complicated than you might think. I've bought the Performance Shifter recipes for 450,000 to 750,000 and routinely sold them for 9-12 million. The only trick is knowing that this particular IO can be had so cheaply... which isn't hard to find out. ^_^

So I logged in this morning, collected my sales, and like I've been doing for the last week I checked to see what was for sale on the IOs I'm trying hardest to buy. Right now that's the Kinetic Combat triple. Over the last week there have been virtually none available below level 35. There was a level 24 available, but listed for higher than I was willing to buy. (I may have bid as high as 50-60 million). That one disappeared, but then there was a level 28 available -- also for more than 50-60 million. Then that one disappeared.

I had a bid in for a level 22 at 32 million. My only hope was to buy one as soon as it was listed, rather than find one for sale and pay a buy-it-now price. So I checked this morning and saw that one level below 35 had a recipe for sale.

And... it was level 22. And actually there were two for sale, and only 10 bidding... but my 32 million bid wasn't high enough.

So I decided to abandon the plan to grab one for as cheap as possible. I increased my bid until I bought one of the recipes listed for 65 million. More than I would have liked to pay, but still a lot less than the level 35 sells for. And the IO is obviously hard to come by, so I'm happy to have my mule set complete now.

Also, my LotG level 50 def recipe that dropped to me should make up for the cost when it sells.

One other thing:

Scourge on Paragon Protectors. <3

But I knew this already, I have a 36 corruptor who's run Manti many times.

This is a cool idea, but I have one little nitpick...

Don't things like this...

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Originally Posted by Organica So much easier to do with /auctionhouse.

...and this...

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Originally Posted by Organica With about 2.5 million in capital raised, I placed a lowball bid on a stack of 10 of one of my current favorite recipes to craft and sell... I can buy the recipe for as little as 5,000, and the crafted recipe sells for around 10 million. That's a good place for me to start. ^_^.

...sort of invalidate the idea that "anyone can manage this, starting from nothing"? The fact that you have /auctionhouse to use means you have years upon years of experience with the game (and it's economy), which, while kind of difficult to quantify in a thought experiment, is invaluable to your ability to actually pursue a project of this type.

I24 Proc Chance = (Enhanced Recharge + Activation Time) * (Current PPM * 1.25) / 60*(1 + .75*(.15*Radius - 0.011*Radius*(360-Arc)/30))
Single Target Radius = 0. AoE Non-Cone Arc = 360.