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After so many honest trades...

alphaman23

By alphaman23,
Posted on: 2012-02-24 12:09 in The Market and Inventions

 

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Originally Posted by Plasma View Post
No. I don't know about PvPers, but in PvE land, I know a fair number of well-heeled people slot Panaceas as a preferred healing set, but outside of that, no.
I occasionally see the resist set used in Dark Armor and Fiery Aura builds because 3 slots gives you 3 points of KB protection. It's a way to save on having to add slots to a build to find places to slot things like BotZs, Steadfasts or Kismets. While you can sometimes slot those into the base slot of wherever you're putting them, sometimes you want to put something else it the power, and the KB prot ends up costing you a slot.

This approach might be more common for PvE builds but for the generally high price of the pieces of the set that are actually likely to be useful to slot in a +resistance power. It's also fairly common for folks to slot other things in their resistance powers that give +defense of one type or another (as set bonuses, not just the Steadfast and GA uniques). Between the two, I haven't seen this done much. But I have seen it.

Blue
American Steele: 50 BS/Inv
Nightfall: 50 DDD
Sable Slayer: 50 DM/Rgn
Fortune's Shadow: 50 Dark/Psi
WinterStrike: 47 Ice/Dev
Quantum Well: 43 Inv/EM
Twilit Destiny: 43 MA/DA
Red
Shadowslip: 50 DDC
Final Rest: 50 MA/Rgn
Abyssal Frost: 50 Ice/Dark
Golden Ember: 50 SM/FA

 

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Well I wish I would have made a thread a month back when this happened to me. Same situation, except it was a 52 HO I was trying to buy, and the market hadn't seen one for months. I lost a billion from it. 1 Starred the guy, told all my close friends to avoid them and made sure never to team/trade with him again.

I also sent a petition. Mine went back and forth for about 6 emails, and they refused to answer my question if 'scamming was completely legal and punishment free in this game'.

Looks like it is and they won't do anything about it. I can't help but think they have some sort of duty to adjust the system so multiple players are not getting ripped off.

But cmon, he even flashed the HO so I knew he had it. Wonder how many others he's doing that with. Only thing I hate is the fact that -he- is making money while -I- lost some for being a reasonable person. It's one of the few times I was displeased with the service of customer support.

I hope TopDoc is right about nothing costing more than a billion, but I have a feeling that 51/52/53 HOs still will.

As for money coming easy and getting a billion after asking it? Not where I come from. A real outcome in a good community, but I recognize the OP and we're both in the PvP community. In that community, giving someone a dime could mean they use it to kill you the next day, meaning money is hard to come by.

@Sentry4 @Sentry 4

PvP Redux is discontinued, for obvious reasons. Thanks to everyone who helped and joined.

 

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I hope TopDoc is right about nothing costing more than a billion, but I have a feeling that 51/52/53 HOs still will.
They will probably cost quite a bit more, even. (Because the rich will get richer.)

It would be more accurate to say "everything that can still be produced will be considerably less than 1B".

 

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this isn't the first time the scammer has done this. He will broadcast the item in a zone or in help and wait for a victim to bite. I have seen that name on freedom, virtue and exalted.

 

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Originally Posted by Jade Ivy View Post
this isn't the first time the scammer has done this. He will broadcast the item in a zone or in help and wait for a victim to bite. I have seen that name on freedom, virtue and exalted.
Huh.

You know. We could have a ton of fun with this.