Over/Under on a Patch to get Converters in

The market for me has been dying for ages, I had stockpiles of every top enhancement sets and billions upon billions, now the converters have come I converted all the pvp enhancements I purchased and sold for huge amounts and bought the recipe equilivant for next to nothing and got twice as many back + well over 100bil, I now have no reason to ever use the market again, now that I have 3 bases fully stocked with enhancements I can cross off the market as an aspect of the game, I hope other stuff can keep me addicted to CoH.

At time of post, the most expensive item in AH was 250mil, with virtually 0 pvp enhancements for sell at lvl 50.

That was essentially my goal, to be able to slot whatever I wanted without restriction. While I've managed to salvage my investment and then some, with about 200% return, it's nowhere near the billions and billions that others are reporting, mostly because I had to work and couldn't get online until several hours after converters had hit live. Add in that I had over a dozen alts standing by with alignment merits and only a handful of rogues/vigilantes who still had significant stockpiles of reward merits, and this was a frustrating day.

Don't get me wrong, I've still come out ahead and I have enough to (ironically enough) finally purple out my warshade, but it's still a bit irksome to know that had I been home when the servers came up this morning I could conceivably have ten times as much pretend money, enough to cover all my alts with plenty to spare. That was my goal, and it'll take me a day or two to be able to see the (not insignificant) upside past the shadow of what could have been. Oh well.

Personally, I was ready for a change in market.

Small-ball, that's where the money is. Unique, uncommon recipes in high demand, like the steadfast protection 3%. I've sold a few of those over the past few days, as the rest of the market has crashed.

I didn't want to stockpile too much, as I have limited time, so I just bought stacks of those starting a couple weeks beforehand (and other recipes with similar desirability of course). When the market shifted, demand skyrocketed, and I was able to sell with a greater than 100% return.

I like that the market has crashed. It lets me kite a character much more easily (though the purple lottery will be missed). I like collecting enhancements in my personal bases, and I usually run out of money whenever I kite out a new character and thus do not have the funds to prepare in advance (I have a bad habit of starting a new character every month or so and giving them the most expensive build possible).

In other news...since folks were still willing to purchase purple and pvp recipes at pre-converter costs last night, I helped them fulfill their dreams.

I see you're a giver too!

I'm pretty sure I figured out Arcana's converter niche, there are only 2 really good options in it but 5 million to 80 million is a solid ROI while the niches hold out.

Whereas, as long as I'm making enough money personally, I don't mind fighting crowds at all. I'm still plowing every last reward merit I can find into churning purples. I'll probably run out of RMs about the same time they finally give us the rest of the currencies, at which point I'll be poised with enormous amounts of ready cash to take advantage of the high-end enhancements crashing back down again. (The spread on purples and PVPs is growing, gradually, as more and more people run out of converters and merits and drop out of the race. I've been able to lower my fishing net for cheapos, and Apoc and Ragnarok are trending back towards 400M.)

No patch today? I thought maybe the hero merit option would show up today.

There are patch notes for a fix to this on the Test server, posted on Tuesday.

I better test this then before it goes live, and let them know if they really fixed it this time.