Shinobu

You don't have to theorize about that, it's true. All common salvage is in one bucket, all uncommon in one bucket, all rare in one bucket. This makes it easier to sell your low level rares that few people normally want, and impossible to corner the market on salvage in the way marketeers routinely did on Live. If you ask me, it's a good thing. ^_^ But I think it's something from the SCORE server, so hard to say if it'll always remain this way.

Actually this worked well on live, and would work on I24 servers, minus the level conversion / attuned conversion which just makes it that much easier and more lucrative. Converters were added in Issue 22. People tend to remember that certain PvP IOs sold for more than the 2 billion influence cap on Live, but forget that all of that went away with Issue 22. With converters you can craft level 50 uncommon recipes and convert them into rare level 50 IOs, and those sell well. You can convert any PvP IO to the one you want, which crashed the market for that Panacea +hp IO or the Glad Armor +3% defense IO. Purple recipes still sold for quite a lot, mind you, and you could make a killing buying the unwanted purple recipes and crafting and converting to the ones that sold for several hundred million influence. I did a lot of that back in the day.

I didn't think of that as flipping per se, but I've bought a lot of the hero & villain packs and resold brute and scrapper ATOs for the price of the pack (sometimes using converters until I got something I wanted or got a brute ATO that I could sell), and I did that once with a Winter pack where I sold one of the WIOs for like 30 million.

My standard for tanks is basically: how well can you tank Lord Recluse on the MLTF/STF? Because to be honest, that TF and various incarnate trials are the only times where having a well-built tank really matters. (And often a brute can be just as good, plus better at damage.) I can farm my Council farm on my 50 elec/shield scrapper all day and kill much faster than any tank, even a good fire tank with burn. I can play pretend tank on an ITF or similar. But I would not be an effective tank on an STF. ^_^ I mean, with good support and hover tanking even some well-built non-melee can do okay in that situation, maybe with a couple of deaths, but to really go toe to toe with Lord Recluse you want a well-built tank or brute.

Which TF is that? ...asking for a friend. That would be the Market Crash TF, level 40+, starts in Kallisti Wharf. Well, and all of it is in Kallisti Wharf. And yes, on your first time ever doing it, you should get a purple recipe as a reward.

There are fairly new contacts and story arcs in King's Row that I suspect a lot of people don't even know about.

Yeah okay, I swore I saw it there in Pine's but there's accuracy/endurance/recharge and damage/endurance/recharge. I still think the bigger point is that Targeted AoE's other sets are so lackluster. Nobody wants to slot Air Burst of Detonation for any reason, and Annihilation (which as I recall was a set added to the game later on, so as to expand the Targeted AoE options a bit) is not a terrible set but doesn't have much in the way of set bonuses for a min/maxer. So everyone goes for Positron's Blast even if it kind of sucks.

/e backflip

It sort of sounds like a frankenslot workaround was exactly the solution Posi envisioned, though. Also, Javelin Volley Endurance/Recharge and technically you could slot Overwhelming Force: Endurance/Recharge as well, although that one's unique.

The first reply to this thread explained how to see these things in game. I'm confused how that didn't answer the question for anyone.

I found I could upload a 60x60 pic. Have no idea if I can use a larger pic by hosting it somewhere else and linking to it.

You can join Vanguard at level 35.

It's not as if Obliteration for PBAoE is perfectly balanced. There are a lot of older sets that have this problem. But people like the AoE ones with plus recharge, of course, so they want those ones to be better.

If it’s the only one worth using, then it stands to reason that you don’t need to make it even better, you need to buff the sets nobody ever uses.

1. Go to this window. 2. Right click on the attribute you wish to always display. (Smashing resistance for example.) 3. Select the option to monitor that thing. 4. Profit! IE you now have that thing always in display. What I like to keep track of is current hit points, various defensive stats and maybe resists, damage bonus for a kin or blaster or brute especially, maybe recharge bonus, and influence last so I always know how very rich I am. ;D

https://paragonwiki.com/wiki/Steel_Canyon shows all of the contacts in Steel Canyon, except maybe the one for the last part of the SSA #2 that was still on test at sunset. I know that there are two newer contacts with arcs that you can just do without being introduced, Graham Easton and Laura Lockheart.

I’d also note that there are a couple of “butt cape” options under belts that will disappear if you’re wearing a jacket, or similar. One of them is the gunslinger dress thing, another is a true butt cape that is only a secondary option to one of the newer belts so if you just scroll through the belts you still won’t see it. But I think those two are butt capes that are compatible with back pieces so far as I know.

In addition, all same-type salvage pulls from a single pool, so common salvage like Luck Charm is not going to be more expensive than any other common salvage, or have less supply. You cannot corner the market on salvage. Converters make it difficult to corner the market on any particular IO because you can convert from different IOs to get what you want. Very Rare / Purple IOs will always be rare, but nothing's going to be so rare that it sells for ridiculous amounts of in-game currency.

There's one in Atlas Park on the side of the Atlas statue square. Despite the name you aren't buying anything with real money, it's just a way to get all of the things that were veteran rewards or special rewards in the past.

There is no wait between waves, unless you failed to clear the last wave completely, afaik.

I think before they do most of that, they need developer tools. But I suspect yes, they'd like to add to the game if possible.

The IO has to be slotted, and has to be a set IO not a generic one, and you need to have a catalyst in your inventory. Double click on Enhancements to get to the enhancement window, click on the enhancement in question to get to the combination screen. When you do, any catalysts (or enhancement boosters) that you have should pop up as something you can click on to combine with the IO.

Hmm, that's an aspect that I didn't realize we hadn't covered very well. So let's fix that. ATOs are unique. You can only slot each set once, or each piece of each set once. Winter O's are unique. Same thing. Overwhelming Force is a unique set (I believe -- I know you can't slot the Knockback > Knockdown more than once). Very Rare/Purple IO's are unique. Ditto. Regular IOs, and PvP IOs, are for the most part not unique. Most "specials" are unique -- that piece of a set that gives a special bonus. Of note: Pancea +Hit Points/Endurance, MIracle +Recovery, Numina's Convalesense +Regeneration/+Recovery, KIsmet Accuracy +6%, Steadfast PRotection Resistance/+Defense, GLadiator's Armor Teleport Protection/+3% Defense, Unbreakable Guard +Max HP, Shield Wall +Res (Teleportation)/+5% Resistance (All), Reactive Defenses: Scaling Resist Damage, Regenerative Tissue +Regeneration, Preventive Medicine: Chance for +Absorb, Aegis: Psionic/Status Resistance, I'm pretty sure all of these are unique. Impervious Skin: Status Resistance, Karma: Knockdown Protection, Steadfast Protection: Knockback Protection, Blessing of the Zephyr: Knockback Protection, I can't remember if these are unique or if you can slot more than one. Luck of the Gambler: Defense/Global Recharge is not unique, you can slot up to five (after that you run into the Rule of Five, so you don't get any benefit for a sixth). Impervium Armor: Psionic Resistance is not unique. Sudden Acceleration: Knockback to Knockdown is not unique.

I don't take pool power attacks unless I have a reason to -- usually so I can get to a later power. The lone exception might be Spring Attack since having a teleport AoE attack is pretty cool, even if it's a pretty weak one compared to any other. Fighting Pool Tough & Weave are good for increasing resistance and defense, and you have to take Boxing or Kick to get there, but I never use them for anything. Leadership Maneuvers is also good for increasing defense. A lot of defense-capped builds use both Maneuvers and Weave and often Scorpion Shield from the Mace patron pools for squishies like Blasters or Defenders. Most of the other powers in Leadership are also very popular -- Assault, Tactics, Vengeance. If you want to make a Blaster/Defender/Corruptor etc with insta-snipe, you'll probably need Tactics. Speed Hasten & Super Speed are probably the two most popular pool powers period. Sorcery -- the best thing about sorcery is Rune of Protection, massive resistance clicky with mez protection. I mean I agree that Mystic Flight is kind of better than Fly or Teleport in one power, but not everyone likes Fly as a travel power to begin with, and if you're an RP purist you have to deal with the weird mystical rune animations. But for me, I like fly and I love Rune of Protection so this is an awesome pool. The buff is a place to slot a healing global, nothing more. Those are the pool powers I use most often but there are valid reasons to take Concealment or Leaping (Spring Attack, and Combat Jumping pairs very well with Super Speed and is another "add defense" power). Medicine is a nice pool for certain sets that don't have any inherit self-heal or people that want to add extra support to their build. Ditto for Presence or Teleportation I guess, those are not very popular pools but they can add an extra dimension of support/team usefulness to the right kind of character. For attacks, I'd say Spring Attack is somewhat useful as a supplemental AoE and the teleport part of the attack can be useful in crowded hallways, and Air Superiority always had fans since it was so good at knocking enemies down. But other than that I don't consider pool attacks worth looking at, myself... until you get to you Ancillary/Epic/Patron power pools, some of those attacks are quite awesome. ^_^

What chase said. Influence that you pay to the market as a fee is influence that disappears and is no longer a part of the economy. The game need MORE ways to drain influence from the economy, because influence is generated far more than it's removed, and that eventually leads to inflation.