Aeroprism

My friend, that 5 millions took 3 long weeks of IO crafting to achieve 🙂

I used to work for a specialised bank branch in a Casino here in Canada. Our main purpose was the exchange of foreign currency, mainly from American tourists. Now, during extremely busy week-ends, I remember closing my cash after my shift and carrying .... sometimes up to 500-600K in hard cash from my station to the bank safe back there. That's a LOT of paper money to carry in your arms but when you've been there long enough, you kind of lose your sensitivity to it. It's not yours so, it's just paper. The people on the other side of the bulletproof glass who were waiting in line. The look in their eyes as they saw me carry twice their mortgage in my arms (this was in 2000-2001). Priceless. (pun intended).

Sounds reasonable. Now all there is to do is give it some time, decide which of my sales won't pass, retract them, soak the 5% and retry using that method. The cost of learning. Acceptable.

Hello beautiful people entrepreneurs! Following @Grouchybeast's suggestion, I came here to discuss lucrative opportunities. I have been on Homecoming for... two months now, maybe three. I did play a lot on live back in the days but back then, I didn't play with markets much since my last COH days were about when IOs appeared. I generally love the maket game in online games, it's a good indicator of how smart and deep a game can be. In CoH's case: VERY entertaining. This time however: I have a family of 358 alts to feed and the firm intention of feeding them. Not to mention that my wife plans to play with me soon and she'll have none of that market stuff. Husband needs to provide. Such is life. So, inf. I started easy, on one of my first characters here: created cheap but popular mid level IOs, 20-30 at a time and put them on sale for a reasonable profit margin. I understood that a lot people preferred to buy instead of going through the creation process. I made perhaps 5-6 Millions that way, was pretty proud of myself. haha, Look at my Five millions. LOOK AT THEM. Then, I discovered that Merits could become Converters, The joy. Except at that point, I didn't know how to convert properly and after much effort and very little profit, I gave that up, not understanding what people found in that method. I also tried those famous Super Packs, sacrificing my hard earned first 10 millions and I got very unlucky, no ATOs, mostly junk so I just gave up. Time passed. Then someone explained how to properly convert. Profit! My main Blaster made some 130 Millions and my (currently shelved) Scrapper another 65. yay! But I felt another call... an irresistible call. The dreaded four letter word which starts with F but doesn't end with K. With the help of this awesome community, I settled on a tanker I would use, knowing not at all what to expect. Turns out I love farming more than I love playing the normal game. I don't know what to think. You tell me. So now I have a steady income of yellow/orange recipes. My tanker hit 45 or 46 yesterday, I plan to be 50 tomorrow. The convertion game is easy but the VAST majority of my rouletted Rares are those that sell around 2 to 2.5 Millions with the VERY occasional LotG but they all pile up in my queue, selling a trickle at a time. I follow the price trends, I don't really undercut. Even if it's not technically impolite because it's common, shared market and not a niche. Whatever, I like my hands clean. For now, I also decided to give Super Packs another chance and, in some 10-12 purchases, they ALL contained at least one ATO and in 3-4 cases, contained two. Slowly but surely I'm gathering those I need for my Tank, converting/selling the others to make sure I come out at least even. Heck, I'm still in full generic IOs, waiting to be 50 to get sets. Super Packs also provide me with a somewhat steady stream of merits so, I carry some 600 Converters without having to grind merits at all. Life is good. Profit is there, but slow. I think I'm on top of things. Look out world, here I come. Rawr. Then I come here; see people say "I make 300 millions every time I blink." as casually as I wear pants to work. ... ... HOW. Thanks. It's good to be home.

😄 I might just do that! Seriously, my tanker just hit 45 and I am completely enthralled. I always thought farming was something people did out of necessity (or boredom?) but it's really, REALLY fun! It's insane action that never ends and the rewards just keep coming!

I really appreciate all this incredible info. I finally settled on a character to use and make into a provider for my legions of Alts and he's 42 as of yesterday, will get to 50 in no time. He's still decked with generic IOs but soon I will start looking for sets and ATOs and all the info you guys provided will be a huge help.

You can convert ATOs. You can. Convert. ATOs. Excuse me while I pick my jaw from the floor. Also: Thanks SO MUCH for all that lovely and valuable system information. I LOVE playing markets in MMOs and CoH's market is quite above average in terms of fun to play with so, that info there is worth a lot to me!

Thanks for the Attuned explanation, it was very clear. As for the ATO, so all AH options come from the Super packs or the merits? Wow... that's a LOT of super packs sold, considering the vast number available. Because I don't see why someone would pay the merit cost JUST to sell it at the AH, you can do a lot more money with those merits.

It worked beautifully! 🙂 Thanks!!!

Thank you! I already have a nice SG base with all possible storage options in. I tried putting my Converters in a salvage vault earlier but it refused 😞 Maybe I did something wrong.

Hello beautiful people! I have quick questions! Yay! First question: is there a "quick questions" topic? (besides this one here) There should be a "quick questions" topic! It's so useful! So! Is there a way to transfer influence converters from one character to another without emailing them one at a time? I could market them and rebuy them same price but this means a direct 5% loss from broker's cut. How are attuned enhancement made? I see them all the time on the market but, where do they actually come from? Besides Super Packs and Merit purchases, where do ATOs come from? Can they be obtained as drops? Can Hover and Combat jumping be activated simultaneously to have their defense bonus stack? (I know I could test this myself easy...) And that's enough quick questions for now! Thanks guys!!

I'm really loving all of these! I'm going to end up having way too many melee characters 😄

Lovely answer @Luminarathank you so much! I find myself not really a tank person, at least not in big groups so Brutes might be best for me. As for my powerset choices, any idea why no one likes SR? Is it outdated and underperforming?

Having tons of fun testing brutes and scrappers lately, thanks so much for all the answers. And now comes the obvious question: Since there is no more limitation between Hero and Villain side, what are the cons and pros of Brutes VS Tankers in a nutshell? They both look amazing to be honest. In my quest to try every powerset, Looking at a Street Justice / Super Reflexes and a Savage Melee / Dark armor. Can't decide if brute, tank or scrapper (though I am liking scrappers less and less as I experiment) And why is super reflexes so unpopular? It looks awesome! (on paper)

My Lv 35 Elec/Elec controller, with minimal effort, will turn an army of lieutenants and bosses into kittens. When the blasters and scrappers and stalkers can do their thing with total, pure impunity, missions go by fast. Really fast.

@Tsuko My current tank is Fire/Staff and honestly, it's not super tough yet but MAN does it kill things fast for a tanker. Aoe galore. Super hectic and fun to play. I'm pretty sure that once he matures, a few sets over generic IOs will make him playable just fine.

Thanks for your answer!! I see I still have LOTS to learn from that character. I wonder though, why so many people sing praises of this or that build but only once you're all T3 and incarnates and what have you. Isn't that the equivalent of saying "The game gets REALLY fun for the last 0.5% of content you haven't played yet" What about level 1 to 50? I'm a very, very slow leveller. I've been here 2+ months here and I have nothing higher that level 36 yet.

Yes I agree, different tanks must have different approach and I look forward to try many of them.

Excellente explication! Merci @Tsuko! But... there is a taunt limit, right? How many bad guys can my tanker keep occupied at once? I know that in the first COH days it was limitless but now it's what... 16?

Hello beautiful people!! I just realized that my taunt power affects only 5 targets (or so say its description). That's a joke, right? I mean, in any reasonably large player group, the pulls amount to sometimes over 20 things. Obviously there is something I'm not understanding. Please shed some light? Let us think-tank an explanation! Get it? Think TANK. ... ... Ok ok I'm sorry. (No I'm not)

I must admit, @beradical you make it sound very fun to use. I will follow your advice and try that!!

If we're discussing F/F blasters, mine reached 35 just not and I'm looking at Burn and Hot Feet and I'm just not seeing. Can someone explain these two to me? They just look hugely underwhelming for a 8 and 9 of a secondary tree.

I already got an answer to my ticket. I know 3-4 large service companies who could learn from Homecoming's staff. Still loving it here 🙂 🙂

I had a level pending. A mistake I will therefore not do again 🙂 Thanks for the advice my friend! Still loving this decked-out stalker really hard!!

Whoa, nevermind. I just restarted the game, the respec is still invalid by my unslotted goodness is all back. Yay!