Diantane

Update: Got all of my SO's converted to L45 IO's. It was an incredible difference. From 23% to 40.5? Even my fire resistance had degraded to 83% with SO's. Got a deal this morning. Bought 8 accuracy IO's for 1,000 each! Won't know unless you try.

Bought one L45 damage IO for 1,000 inf thanks to your advice, "Without_Pause." Kept on going up for the others. Paid 150,000 each for the others, but still cheaper than making them myself. By the way, one of your videos "How to get to 50 in two hours" started me on this path. Now someone may have made a 50 in two hours, but it wouldn't be me 😄 Tried sending a inf request to that link you sent, but they are not online today

Just hit 42 so I'm gonna start replacing SO's with IO's

Is there a limit of how many recipes can be stored at the AH? NVM -- Saw it on this character @ 195

Sovera. Thanks for the links. I will look at them after my mid day nap.

Another question about AE Farms. I have double checked on my character to not solo bosses, yet there are always bosses on the farm. They slow it down. If there some way to eliminate them?

Thanks for that heads up. I will be creating IO's at 42 (as many as I can afford that is 🙂). Of course I'll be looking for bargains on the AH. When I respec'ed before I would save the SO enhancements in my base. So I'm saving inf by going through them. Sometimes I get lucky. I'll do what you said when buying at the AH though. never understood what all those different numbers were for until now.

Before making this Spines/fire brute I never had the drive to go much further than around 40. But now that I have done what I'm been doing the last couple days by jumping into a large mob (like 20 of them) without being a dedicated alpha tank, and within 20 seconds most of them being dead, I'm pretty fired up and looking forward to see just what else this AT is capable of. Not just looking at 50 being a goal, but what lurks beyond this point. Now I had looted many yellow and orange recipes, but have no idea if any are keepers or not. (as I have never used one before). Didn't want to sell any to a vendor so when they filled up my available space, I switched over to tickets (no idea what they are for yet, but there must be a reason they are there). When you reach 50 my guess is that the x2 xp buffs I'm using become worthless or are they still used for gaining something else? You say at 50 I would be rolling in influence. Can't figure out how. It couldn't be the little influence you get from killing mobs is it? Remember on LIVE the trouble I was having being able to afford SO's from the low influence you received as loot. Had the same trouble when I first came to Homecoming, but someone told me about selling enhancement boosters. Course that only helps to buy up to level 40 SO's with some extra change. Have little experience doing task forces. Did Positron 1 & 2 one morning, but don't remember what the reward was (except maybe a badge). But now that I have a character that impresses me this much, I will look into doing more after I get to 50 in a few days. How do you attune an enhancement?

I just use SO to fight at +1x8. Have a close call now and again, but I do it every time. Reason: No one said I couldn't 🙂 However with the difficulty I'm seeing, I won't be going over that atm.

Got a new question that came up as I was farming. Have been using many inspirations as they come in so quickly anyway. Just wondered if there was just so high you could go (cap) for damage, accuracy and defense? Figured out that the F2W vendor could stop sending me rez's (which are harder to get rid of - right click/delete) and break frees.

I wouldn't have to be a sitter as I've got some experience now. Only, I have not been able to get past +1x8 yet. Having some difficulties with even that, but okay until I level once. Can't gain two full levels on one map anymore.

Pretty amazing that this was in the game. I've also been reading about the incarnate system and was impressed on how extensive it was. Looking forward to that. Is there anything there that would aid in farming?

I moved to Excelsior from Everlasting about six months ago because of the higher population here. I can lead a team or join another in the wee morning hours (impossible on Everlasting). A few days ago I led a team through every arc in the Hollows (I disabled the XP @ 15 on a rad/rad sentinel). The players were quite excited to be there as they had either never seen the arcs or not in ten years. Especially the Julius the Troll and Talshak the Mystic arcs. Created this character the same day after reading about the interesting synergies within. Got him to 7 by grinding in Atlas and the Hollows. Then joining a radio team in PI and one in Founders. At 24 they disbanded and I started my project to farm/level the character. Currently 38.

You mean doing a respec to get the IO's away from the character?

My SG base is private and I have a wide assortment of salvage as I have only built IO's once, but kept on filling the racks keeping the salvage in alphabetical order.

Just found out that the difference of cost between a L45 and 50 IO's is huge and I will never be able to afford the 50's for some time (maybe never). So at 42 I will start replacing my SO's with IO's. Can't do all of them at once, but will work on them as I earn the influence. Have said before that at this time, farming is interesting to me (not boring yet 🙂)

LOL - Most definitely. When I was 19 serving aboard the aircraft carrier, USS America CVA-66 (now at the bottom of the ocean), I got a call that one of our utility boats would not start and it wasn't the battery. I was an electricians mate and was told to go to the island to repair the boat. Asked if it was secure and they said that all weapons were confiscated and two marines were guarding the small port. So I agreed and another boat brought me and my tools to the island (we were anchored a mile away). As I was working on the boat about 30 Viet Cong that wanted to kill us all came up with a plan. They would set the marine's jeep on fire which distracted the marines attention, and then about 25 of the Viet Cong came into our area to kill us with their jujitsu skills. Six jumped on the boat to drown me. I jumped off the boat and ran across the tarmac. Didn't get far as one of the Cong kicked the legs out from under my body and my head came down and hit the pavement (cracking my skull). I was unconscious as they proceeded to kick me around like a rag doll (as told me later on board the hospital ship by the two marines). I was bleeding everywhere, but no bones broken (teeth fully cracked from the constant kicking to my mouth (all teeth later removed). Couldn't walk for six months. Finally able to use crutches, then a cane and would finally walk again. Refused a medical discharge as I enlisted during the draft and demanded an honorable discharge. Spent six years in the US Navy (two years with the reserves) and was released as a 2nd class petty officer (E-5). You are right. PvP would be nothing in comparison, but its still not for me after experiencing what I did above. To this day my left hand had lifelong tremors, have some short term memory loss, a learning disability and I'm not completely balanced when I walk. I'm currently 66 and retired after driving a tractor trailer for 45 years.

I do apologize for any mistake I may have posted before, but it was never in bad taste for this experience (CoH). With all the bad remarks I have heard before (maybe this game is not for you or you should learn how to play this game), I'm still here (and learning). I'm resilient i.e. it got me through the Vietnam War and this is far easier. I've finally crossed over a barrier in this game that I've never gone near before. It took me several months of running teams and doing about a thousand arcs (up to 9 a day) and up to 18 hours straight; earning merits to be able to finance such a project. I still have some characters that may have unspent merits on them. Meanwhile I am learning as fast as I can. More questions will come.

Well right before you posted this info I upgraded my SO's to level 40 😞 Should I make common 45 IO's at 42 or wait until the 50's. No way can I afford sets (even level 50 recipes might be out of my reach, but I can do some of them and work up to the rest).

Thanks with the information on the difference in cost with IO's over SO's, Ukas. I used IO's once and buying recipes and savage I spent much more than I do for SO's plus it took a couple hours. Then ten levels later the were obsolete (difference between 34% and 38% is not that much at the time. I eventually replaced them with new IO's, but it took me as long time as I didn't have the influence to upgrade all of them at once. And this is just for regular IO's. Those sets are ridiculous. Without Pause, I ignore Trolls and move on to the constructive replies.

Many players may say they make influence when they farm, but it's costing me. The enhancements I use (SO's) have to be replaced every 5 levels and gets more expensive every time. It's costing me millions just to level. When I run arcs I get merits which are spent on enhancement boosters and sold on the AH for millions which pay for the expensive SO's and just a little extra ). This is mostly why I don't level a character past 42 (those SO's are just too expensive. I will be paying for them this time only (all I can afford)). Get no merits for leveling when I farm. So why do I do it? To me it isn't boring (yet). Its actually pretty interesting as it is something new. I can afford getting a character to 50 this way (once). Then I'll have to go back to arcs to finance my play here.

Well thankfully they have respec’s and at level 33 I haven’t used any of them. Running out of powers to train (only using one pool set (leaping). May train Hasten, but not training the tier 8 & 9 powers on secondary side (don’t need them) so I got a bit of a problem. if I don’t use all the power slots, I’ll never reach 50. Anyway, thanks for the help!

Is this a click power that lasts for just 10 seconds? (according to mids)

Well I wasn't farming to make money. Just a different way of leveling. You are right about the boredom though. Don't think it will last. One problem with making it on the market. If you win, someone else loses. They influence you gain comes from somewhere (somebody).

As I said up top I was going to get up to 20+ which would get me 90 cap fire resistance and quills, healing flames, etc. Played on a couple teams and got to 24 after a few hours. Tried farming again and it was like night and day. Cleared the map at +0x8 (brought me up to 26). Will raise it to +1x8 for next time and will keep raising it when I can. Something I don't understand. My health was going up and down just a little. It couldn't be the tiny regen I get from one slotted health is it?