Ironblade

I find farming about as tedious. I prefer running task forces when they're the weekly.

1. I am not aware of any limit on how many accounts you can HAVE. You can only have 3 accounts logged in at the same time. 2. Each account needs a different email address. My email provider allows me to have 20 'aliases' per email address so I could have 21 accounts if I wanted.

It's tedious. Back on live, I worked the market in pretty every way possible and it was time-consuming. Now I have one character doing super casual marketeering.

BZZZTT! Wrong answer. Most of the people working the market are not hurting anyone and some are benefiting people. Example: I marketeer by buying garbage uncommon recipes that no one wants (i.e. 600 for sale, 50 bids), crafting them and converting them into stuff that people want (i.e. anything that sells for 1 million or more). I am giving money to people who are selling junk and keeping the price of good enhancements lower than they would be if there were less supply. Of course, the people selling the junk could do this themselves but they aren't - due to being too busy, too lazy, or lacking knowledge of converters and the market. Also, when Supertanker said "Then sell your Uncommon Salvage. Easy money.", how the hell is that making anyone's life harder??? All they said is that if the price is high, you should be selling instead of buying. That's common sense. Nothing they said indicates they do ANYTHING in the market.

So much work. I basically just play and do a tiny bit of farming and marketeering. My most recent farming was a few weeks before Dr Q TF came up in the rotation. I normally solo it on my main, each time it comes around, for the merits. It occurred to me that I didn't have a character high enough for Dr Q on my 3rd account so I farmed one up. Log in all 3 accounts plus my girlfriend logs in. Then I solo it on Ironblade. Took me about 4 hours of lackadaisical play to earn 732 merits for me and 244 for her (obviously plus inf and drops). I do one or two weeklies each week if it's stupid ones. If it's something I enjoy like the ITF or Penny Yin, I might run it a half dozen times on different characters. I always have multiple characters who can uses the Notices - the merits are a bonus. I actually hadn't marketeered since live until just recently. I decided to have Ironblade on every shard with the same build and I decided to have the one on Reunion self fund. So I started buying trash recipes that didn't use rare salvage, crafting them, and converting in category to stuff that sells. That was easy enough, so I had a new tank on Everlasting do the same. After paying for his build, I figured I'd keep at it until he was fully incarnate (I built him for the Underground trial). At that point, I won't be playing him as much so he'll retire from marketeering. So, minimal marketeering (30-45 minutes per week) pays for my characters - since I don't PL any character I intend to play. I play them level 1 to 50 so there's loads of time to accumulate funds for their builds. Then with the weeklies and a few Hami raids per week, I'm swimming in reward merits. Anyone doing any one of these things in moderation should have plenty of funds.

hmm.... Reference to the Petrovic brothers (leaders of the Skulls) who took the names of Slavic deities of the underworld when they gained supernatural power?

I guess you didn't notice that I was specifically quoting and asking someone who buys converters from people en masse.

I think you've misunderstood my question. I was asking how many converters can be traded in a single trade between two players.

I think you mean Cytoskeletons. And all my characters with the invuln set always slot two in Invincibility. I'll slot part of a defense set, then the two cytoskeletons because they buff three effects and all of them are applicable in that power (defense buff, to-hit buff, endurance reduction).

I guess you've actually done this and I'm curious - how many converters can you move in a single trade? Thousands?

Yeah, but then I'd have to drag them over to Excelsior. 😛 It's Ironblade on Everlasting who's closing in on 10,000 rewards merits (for the third time, I think). Ironblade on Excelsior is 'relatively' poor since he has already bought his purples and HO's.

Except that this is typically an existing toon and now I have to recreate their face from memory? No thanks.

It's not. I've written a number of relational database applications and it's so not worth it. It's additional code and if there's any error or unpredictable behavior, you can end up overwriting someones base. That would not be popular.

So it is. I read 8 or 10 sections of the forum regularly and completely overlooked this fact.

Most of my characters are designed to be as helpful as possible to a team. Aside from powerset choices, I would like to mention the Leadership pool and Teleport Target (formerly Recall Friend). All but two of my characters have Teleport Target. People get lost. Slow zoners may be just entering the zone when most of the team is already in the mission. Someone died in a spot they can't rez. Etc, etc. And most (more than half, probably more like two thirds) of my characters take the Leadership pool. Everyone hits more often, does more damage, gets hit less or all of the above while you don't even have to click a power.

I hate when SGs do that because it also changes your face, skin and hair. Better to have a listing of the costume pieces and a chart of the colors.

Yep. That's why I wasn't able to get in this month. I was out of town.

Since bases are shard-specific, you should indicate which shard you would want the base on. Unless you're on all shards and open to any of them.

Or a sewer treatment plant.

You're comparing two different kinds of powers here. First, you have "Stealth, Stalkers' Hide powers, Grant Invisibility, or Superior Invisibility". This all grant what I'll call 'full invisibility'. You can walk right up to most enemies, actually bump into them, and they won't know you're there. Then you have Infiltration, which is *NOT* full invisibility. Once you get close enough, ANY mob will be able to see you. So it sounds like that's what's causing an issue. Tell me, are you actually using the Combat Attributes and monitoring the 'Stealth Radius (PVE)' to see what the power is doing? That will tell you if it's actually shutting off, because the number will go to zero. Otherwise, you're just getting too close to the enemy and they can see right through the Infiltration power - which is working as intended in that regard.

Same about standing on the mausoleum. But I often see the opposite regarding the day job icon showing up - mainly in First Ward. Logging out almost anywhere in the zone gets you the Scavenger badge but the icon very often does NOT show up. But when I log back in days later, I get the badge.

The last time I paid 2 billion for an enhancement was a +3% resist unique, back on live.

Well, let me address this from a few angles. First, I find a disconnect between my experience and yours (I think). I see no reason to use Discord to organize most activities when I can easily find 7 teammates using the in-game tools. To be fair, I guess I mostly run popular content like the weeklies and the ITF. Obviously this affects the ease of recruiting. Having said that, larger activities that I participate in *ARE* organized on Discord. Everlasting TFs has a Discord channel and Cosmic Council on Excelsior. Most of the incarnate trials and Hamidon raids that I join are from one of those Discords. Finally, regarding the relentless Aeon SF - this is NOT popular content. Even on the Discords I mentioned, it's sometimes challenging for people to find a full team to run that. It's just not popular. On a side note, if you're on one of the less populated shards, it can be difficult to find enough people even for some of the more popular content.

Excellent example. All the information I include but I use better grammar and sentence structure. 🙂 I would also add that I say if there is anything unusual or noteworthy about the TF. For example, Market Crash gives a guaranteed purple on your first run. If it's the weekly, I mention that.

Same, but I don't think it's weird that I didn't notice. I use it so infrequently. I typically only need it on relatively low level characters after a long fight when my toggles are already on. If I just died, I generally come back with plenty of HP and END due to using Return to Battle or a high tier inspiration.