Zero to Awesome (30 day project)

Looks like you're getting caught on the downside of the 2XP slope. "Well, they were 50M, now they're selling for 30M, lemme list for 29..." "Now they're 22 million, lemme list for 20..." "Now they're 20. CRAP!"

I've got a lot of bad bets from 2XP that are going through that process currently. At least I can tell myself I'm working on my "burning inf through market fees" project.

Yeah, I'd rather use my itrial salvage for those slots, but we'll see. ^_^

And yes I've noticed the slide Fulmens, but mostly on this one character. On my normal marketers I leave things up for days or weeks, so I'm normally slow to notice slides like this and sometimes they don't affect me at all. ^_^

One thing that did seem to rebound quite a bit for me were Decimations. (Or Devastations -- whichever is the level 40 one.) I'm not sure if prices on those are falling again, but I sold a bunch of one of the triples for 35 million each, that's much better than they had been selling.

I'm just coming back to the game from years off and wanted to say this..ordeal..occurrence.. experiment.. has been awesome to read and helped me understand much of a game I left before there were even IO's.

Looking forward to (hopefully) not having to worry about inf.

Been making me think about posting one of these for myself as I figure out the game.

Jt

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To continue, I think of there being about three levels of IO'ing out:
1) Generics to replace SO's. Slightly to greatly more expensive, depending on how you plan ahead on your shopping; very similar results, only you'll never see a slot "go red" or lose efficiency with IO's.
2) Frankenslotting: grabbing a lot of cheap sets and using them like "mini-hami-os". Two set IOs can give you the rough equivalent of three SO's; I have a mini-guide in my sig if you want details.
3) "Real" set IO's- that is, IO's where you're slotting several of the same set in a given power, such that you get lots of set bonuses and [in some cases] dramatically improved performance. This can be expensive to unbelievably expensive [some builds cost literal billions] and there are potential traps, but you can get a LOT better performance if you do it right.
Feel free to ask questions, I love to see my own name up on the screen.
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Yeah, and my build has only one relatively cheap purple but has those Hami-O Enzymes, which sell for similar prices.

Personally I start with generic IO's when leveling. They're more expensive but you can keep the cost lower by crafting yourself and bidding overnight for the salvage, and they more than pay for themselves by not going red in the middle of a mission or TF. And as others here have pointed out, if you need 3 heal IOs, buy the salvage to craft 6 and sell three of them. Money recouped, and more!

Hey, Organica, I know I'm late with the congratulations (work is really cutting into my forum time), but Congrats on 50!

Thanks. ^_^

Day 24





As you can see, my drought of not selling stuff is over. I even sold a couple of other Decimations that I didn't screenshot, but basically over the course of the day and evening I sold a lot of stuff. Not always for as much money as I'd like, but a sale is a sale. (And a couple were for much more than I'd listed, so it all balances out.)

Most importantly of course, was the purple. ^_^ I haven't place a bid on my Enzymes yet, but there's hope that I can afford them now, thanks to my lucky break the other day.

* Ran 2 BAFs and 1 Lamda. I don't have my last two slots open yet, but give it time. I crafted my Judgment Tier 2.

* Ran 5 tip missions, and converted 50 merits again.

* I continue to be interested by how people react to the name. One person on two of the iTrials said that he's been reading these posts and following my progress. He was on some of the earlier trials I wrote about. I told him that I'd have to be careful to not screw up with him watching. But then I said something about continually targeting people on the team, that something was wrong. Which was apparently a stupid thing to say, but I had no idea the prisoners could confuse you, all they do is run past you and never attack, and I'd never been confused like that before (aside from AE Baby I've run trials on two scrappers and a widow). Also this was right after the servers had come back up after the Hotfix, so my first thought was "something really weird it going on, does it have anything to do with why they took the servers down?"

Someone made a comment, "Oh, the irony!" Apparently because of my name and the "clueless question". Because, you know, stupid name = stupid person. (Actually, so far I haven't managed to troll too many idiots with my name -- most people tend to ignore your name unless they think it's particularly weird or cool.)

Finally I had someone tell me that they loved me and I'd won the internet, also apparently because of my name. Heh. (They may have read my bio too I suppose -- this was in the ski chalet.)

I bought some candy canes and purchased the halo aura. I'm going to get the burning halo as well.

Other than that, I joined a speed Khan on my widow. Please note:



I got the kill on four of five AVs, but the one that someone else killed, I got a purple drop -- my third of the week. And someone on my team said that they were still waiting for their first ever. I can't complain, it's been very lucky for me this week. Well, except for the raft of commons and uncommons on the itrials, I've got one rare and one very rare total so far.

Team was 2 defenders, 2 stalkers, a stone tank, and my widow, so probably not too surprising that I got a lot of kills, I was a significant part of team damage I think. We finished in 22 minutes, and that included a quick bio and snack break before the AVs.

This has been a really entertaining and useful read to apply to builds I'm currently working on. Nicely done and thank you, but...

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Originally Posted by Organica I got a purple drop -- my third of the week.

Hey Freezelok. ^_^

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Originally Posted by ChaosAngelGeno This has been a really entertaining and useful read to apply to builds I'm currently working on. Nicely done and thank you, but...

Yeah, I have no explanation for 3 in one week.

The last time I had two in one day, I spent nearly a whole Saturday killing Cimemorans on the wall until I had 32 shards to craft my T4. That wasn't so much luck as it was the results of farming. This is just... me doing what I normally do, a few tip missions and a TF a night. Random is random.

Day 25 - Friday 8/26

Friday was a very good day for me. And no, not because I got any more purple drops.





First of all, a lot of stuff sold. Mostly for not a lot of money, but I was getting rid of all my inventory that's in niches I don't want to be in, so I was having a fire sale, and people were buying. That's good. Even a little profit is a profit.

Second of all, I converted 50 merits and bought my third Luck of the Gambler 7.5% recharge. I only need four for my build, and afterwards I ran 5 tip missions and my alignment mission so I earned a villain merit doing that. Saturday afternoon I'll convert 50 more merits and I'll have my fourth LotG 7.5% recharge. With about 200 merits left and a few days of tips left to get more amerits and sell a couple of IOs for cash.

Third, I decided that with 1.8 billion on hand it was time to buy my Enzymes. I didn't have a lot of hope, they were going for upwards of 600, 650, even 700 million. I place a bid for two at 506 million, well below the last five, but it's the weekend so maybe Hami is being killed somewhere. I also placed bids on Performance Shifter end/rech and Reactive Armor resist/rech, two IOs that I figure will sell better for me than the other stuff I've been peddling:



Then I joined some trials -- ultimately ran 3 Lambdas and one BAF. I unlocked my Destiny and went Rebirth and slotted my T1, and crafted a T2 for Judgment Pyronic.

In the meantime more stuff sold, and to my surprise I bought one of my Enzymes:





Quite awesome! I rebid on 2 Enzymes at 511 million just in case someone saw my previous bid, and also did more crafting/listing of stuff.

I went off to run a Sister Psyche with Shinobu Eden (hit 47), and when I checked before logging off at night, I'd sold a few more things, I'd bought some recipes, and my second Enzyme had been purchased. Awesome!

Day 26 - Sat 8/27

I checked on stuff early Sat morning, and my 3rd Enzime purchase had been made.





So now my goal is to raise another 100 million or two to purchase the last Enzyme. All I need for my build at this point is 1 Enzyme and the last LotG 7.5% recharge, which I'll have by this afternoon/evening.

I ran a BAF and a Lambda this morning. I managed to open up my Lore slot, and went with the... purple storm things from the Shadow Shard, whatever they're called. I have no idea which pets are better than others, just having pets is a bonus and so far I've gone for whatever sounded cool that I hadn't tried on another character. ^_^

I also crafted my Pyronic T3, so I have 1 level shift at least on trials. I crafted T2 for Destiny Rebirth, and I broke down and used incarnate trial salvage to craft my Alpha T1, Cardiac I think.

Plus I bought some fancy boots and stuff with astral/empyrian merits.

I haven't actually posted my other outfits. Among other things, I've purchased Halloween salvage from the market for the 5th costume slot and candy canes for the halos. I placed the halo on my original costume, because AE Baby is sweet and innocent, yes?



My second costume was similar to the first but more armored:



My fifth costume is my ITF costume:



And costumes 3 and 4 are my "most skin showing" and "least skin showing" outfits, but both have become my incarnate outfits. I like having just the incarnate boots on the "less is more" outfit, and I'm kinda going all out on the other outfit:



Aside from getting that last Enzyme, I think my goal for the last few days of the month should be to get a T3 alpha, T3 Destiny, and T3 on either Lore or Interface as well. I could say that would complete my journey from level 1 to awesome, reaching the level shifts. ^_^

FYI - Judgement doesn't have a level shift attached.

Alpha, Destiny and Lore only.

No level shift for Judgement and Interface.

Well, you can tell how much I pay attention to these things. ^_^

But I can blow stuff up real good!

Anyway, a few level shifts are needed. ^_^

That is, in fact, cheaper. Yes.

If you consider that the cost of level 50 SO's is about 5 million inf:
that's about 3 rare salvage
OR about 15 uncommon salvage
OR half a "decent drop", crafted.

Maybe I've been hanging out here too long, but I don't see the cost SO's, which is something like 15 million over your entire character's life, as a financial problem. Someone here had a standing offer, something like "Send me a tell and I'll email you 20 million, and you can afford to slot SO's 1-50."

Joined a BAF and a Lambda this morning. On one I got a rare. At this point, I've run more iTrials on AE Baby than any other toon of mine, but this was only my third non-common or uncommon -- I got a Very Rare early on, and a rare I think. Anyway, I was able to craft my T3 Lore. Working on T3 Destiny now, but I need another rare to accomplish it.

I also joined a friend's ITF last night and got 9 shards. This was not enough to allow me to craft my T2, alpha, but it's a good start. One of the same friends invited me to an ITF again today, just after I'd finished the iTrials. We cleared the entire last map and I still only wound up with 4 more shards.



Stuff sold overnight, enough to push me just over 500 million (especially after a couple of other things sold during the iTrials). Knowing that Hami raids generally happen on the weekend, I wanted to get my last Enzyme bid in right away if I could, so as soon as I had the money I placed a bid for 527 million (last five included my second bid for 511 million, and 4 others that were higher 600 million on a couple I think, but one was only 525 million).

During the ITF more stuff sold:



I decided to up my Enzyme bid. To my surprise, my bid was successful less than 2 minutes later.




After that I joined some other friends on a Citadel with Shinobu Eden. By the time that was done, more stuff had sold:



So at this point my build is complete. Price: somewhere in the neighborhood of 2.5 billion, I think. One billion of that came from my two purple drops, but given another 7-10 days I think I could raise another billion, especially now that I can use a-merits to buy IOs for sale.

I have 47.96% smashing/lethal defense, and if anyone on the team adds to that, then I'm usually in very good shape even in a swarm of Cimemorans. One purple and I can tank a group long enough to kill them all. I have 70% global recharge, (the 140% showing includes hasten), and a lot of other nice bonuses and incarnate abilities.

I really like this character a lot. I've played fire/kin troller and kin defender, and I've played a fire/fire blaster. This seems like the best of both worlds. I can buff the team, heal, and unleash massive damage. I can turn my corruptor into a blaster, and a blaster into a god. I feel like I add a lot to any team.

But... you missed SO much content.



All that within a month? I'm guessing that planning is the key to the whole idea. My playstyle doesn't really... lend me to that idea.

I'm impressed, nonetheless!

Ran 2 BAFs tonight. Did not manage a Lambda, so only 1 Empyrian Merit on the day. But I got a rare on the second run and crafted my T3 Destiny. I'm now at T3 on Judgment, Lore, and Destiny, T2 on Interface and still stuck at T1 on Alpha.

Ran 5 tip missions + morality mission for a villain merit, and also converted 50 regular merits for a villain merit. Bought a Kinetic Combat triple, crafted it, put it up for sale.

For the last couple of days I've just been running iTrials, ITFs, and trying to make money on the market. Most notably, I used 2 villain merits to purchase a Kinetic Combat triple which sold for 170 million, exactly what I was hoping it would sell for. Other than that I'm just selling random drops and whatever I decided to buy a 10 stack of. Right now I'm trying to make money working the two Decimation triples.



As of this morning I'm near 500 million again.


In completely (well mostly) unrelated news, I chatted the other day with a person who reads these posts and recognized AE Baby. She had a very funny, rambling first-person bio, very creative, about shooting her boyfriend for clipping his toenails at the table and shooting her lawyer. Anyway it kind of reminded me of one of my own favorite bios, in general tone, not at all in detail, so I thought I'd post this:



A bio should be entertaining. ^_^