Confession of a power gaming junkie

I don't have a particularly good reason not to be grabbing buckets and soup bowls... I like projects that work on two or more of my pet goals (more midlevel recipes, less inf in game, leveraging my personal inf destruction 2:1 or more, helping new players and new SGs, whatever else strikes my fancy) and this only works on the "less inf in game" project.

Can I have your stuff?

I guess it's apathy for me too. I have less than a dozen characters who have even a few individual Purple IOs slotted. Really, I'm only just coming around to seeing some use for the Hami-Os I've got stored (mainly the Def/End and Res/End ones). My builds are composed of just regular IO sets, nothing special or really optimized. So my C-ranked Inf bank roll is already more than I need.

I won't be hitting the trillion mark for a while. The market for expensive purples and PvPs is going down for a while when Enhancement Converters go live. There is a huge stock of junk IOs that will suddenly become expensive, which means a spike in supply. People with junk IOs may convert their own to get the expensive ones, which means a reduction in demand. And there's a small chance that people slotting ATIOs will be needing fewer purples, so another reduction in demand. It will take a while for those to be converted and slotted, and the market will have to reach a new equilibrium. Only after that will I have a chance at being a trillionaire.

As to prices, here's my take. Currently there are 10 purple sets, with the 5 mez and 1 pet damage sets being fairly cheap, while the other 4 damage sets are expensive. I don't know the actual numbers, so the following are just for example. The average price for cheap sets used to be fairly low, say around 50M, while the expensive ones were more like 500M. The average purple price was around 230M. After the initial conversion of cheap to expensive, I expect purples to move towards this average. Cheap purples are already at 100M, and I wouldn't be surprised if they hit 150M or more. Expensive ones will drop, maybe as low as 200M, but I expect them to eventually recover to around 300M. It really depends on how many people get into the purple Enhancement Conversion business, how many people buy ATIOs, whether the new Incarnate content encourages people to continue playing their 50s, etc.

As to my urgency, I'm just looking to let everyone know about this strategy. I've got just under 2000 purples in bases now, so I certainly don't need any more. By posting it here I'm hoping more people will understand Enhancement Converters and be ready to take advantage of them when they hit live. I'm building up good karma. In a month people will be posting in this thread saying, "Thanks TopDoc, I'm a casual player but I managed to purple my Warshade by buying cheap purples when you suggested it."

Of course I always could have ulterior motives. Maybe I'm doing this all to make it expensive for Arcanaville to catch up to me. Maybe I think the purple market is going to permanently crash, and I need to find some way to unload my 2000 purples. Maybe I don't actually have that many purples, and I'm just posing. Maybe it's to distract you from my next BIG money maker, which involves a level 15 CEBR. Then again, Arcanaville could have ulterior motives as well. She already admitted that I pushed her out of the market. Maybe she wants to discourage all of you so she can buy while cheap purples are still fairly cheap. I will leave it to all of you marketeers to decide whether my advice and predictions are reasonable. Take into account that many of you have admitted to doing the same thing as me, just on a lower scale.

Why am I the only one doing this at such scale? Perhaps it's because I'm a power gamer with a lot of 50s. I guess it's a different mind-set from most marketeers who enjoy sitting around drinking tea made from the tears of the oppressed, and then swimming through all of their Inf to get a little exercise. I can see the value of purples in making silly overpowered builds, so I want them. I want hundreds more to outfit my current 50s, hundreds more after that for all the chars I'm leveling up, hundreds for future chars, and hundreds to sell so I can buy all the non-purples I'll need. I've got 4 Doms on the way to 50, plus 2 more scheduled, and I have HIGH expectations for their capabilities (S/L softcapped, permadom, great damage). Massive global recharge means MMs can just resummon pets as needed, and I've got 3 MMs in the works, 2 at 50 who need respecs, and probably a Beast Master soon. I've got a dozen CEBRs and only 2 have purple builds, but I'd like to slot them all out well. Purples mean I keep my set bonuses when exemping, which is great for running Weekly Strike Targets, WWD arcs, finishing TF Commander, or anything else below level 50. Maybe I should post something in the Build Advice area of the forums to reach like-minded people.

I wasn't looking to profit much from this, I hoovered up a few hundred purples just for my own supply for future builds. I have no real need for billions more inf, I'll jut burn it anyway.

And I thought I was doing good getting like 30 purples for this a few weeks ago. :*(

Yeah, I missed the boat, even though mentally, I knew this would happen as soon as I heard about them. And I've done something similar before; when merits were announced I expected the highest end enhancements to fall marginally, and the mid-range ones (the 1-3m ones) to climb. I had hundreds and hundreds of things like celerity:stealth and posi blast procs, etc, which were selling in the 1-3m range. (I actually picked >50 L50 Celerity stealth recipes for like 500k before I even had to pay that much.)

A lot of that is simply distraction and not having the energy for a good scheme, as I've been working on a book I just finished, and it's eaten almost all non-main-job time over the past 7 months.

Anyhow, bravo, sir, and anyone else getting the cheap ones. I think your predictions are largely spot on. And frankly, this is an everyone wins situation, because we just don't need that many sleep purples