Yomo Kimyata

A few thoughts: It's an incredibly strong combo, but it's a little late in development. I understand wanting more attacks at 22, and there is nothing wrong with that, but also feel free to respec out of Contaminated Strike later. You eventually get a lot of good attacks that feel very slow. You also get two damage auras and (if you want) a PBAoE bomb in DNA Siphon. I think I'm running something like this (I can't remember if I fully upgraded or not):

I'm sure anyone with experience in making AE missions as well as anyone who was paying more attention than me can better quantify this, but I don't believe the rewards scale linearly with the x, much less with the +. Anecdotally, a bit back I ran back to back council paper missions, one at +0/x1 and one at +4/x8. I vendored everything and ended up with about 1.3mm and about 1.7mm respectively. Very small sample set, I admit. But when looking at spawn sizes, I know that x1 gets you 3 minions or a minion and a lt. I'm not sure offhand what x8 gets you, but it's sure not 24 minions.

The lesson I'm learning is that even if only the 125 wealthiest-in-terms-of-inf players responded to this survey, there is way too much inf in the system, and nothing to spend it on.

I am *hoping* that I just missed him twice. I’ll try the arc again when I have plenty of time!

It's a little bit apples to oranges, since you can farm for ten hours and get ten times your hourly rate, but marketing requires both time spent and time passed. But I think it's fair to say that yes, I can easily beat 51mm profit for 60 minutes time spent.

Even bionic boxer dogs get bionic fleas.

What is the problem you are trying to solve?

I find it interesting that the (admittedly self selective) distribution is roughly log normal. I extrapolate that there is a lot more pure inf out there than I thought or would have hoped.

I don’t see a solvable problem. I see “I want more damage procs.” nerp!

Thank you everyone! Here’s what I’ve learned so far: 1. I’m not far off with my farming numbers. People seem to report with inf from drops as well. Also (and I did figure this out on my own too) you get the same inf at 50 with or without spending turned off. 2. Some people are much faster than others! Keep it coming!

Capped at 100bn and not even close to there. Yet!

We are WELL short of a quorum for the contest. Keep them coming or else!

A friend of mine want to have words with you...

I just googled "inf piles" and I'm sorry I did.

This is all great stuff, thanks! I’m going to test run an elec/bio, then an elec/fire. I’m really not in love with shield for various reasons, and ice melee (and fire melee) are out until I get more costume skins. The elemental swords give me the heebie jeebies.

What’s the problem we are trying to solve here? My gut says that controllers are late bloomers and your T9 is your signature power. Are you asking also to nerf the pets to justify getting them so much earlier? Or do you just want full power earlier? I’m open to hearing new ideas!

Right, but the title doesn't say 9,999 merits. It says 999,999 merits.

Ok, so recently I went down the dual-boxing rabbit hole and I've been using a fire farmer to PL a few of my alts. I've never spent much time farming for inf before, so I figured I'm at the point in the pandemic that I check it out and see what the buzz is all about. First of all, I'm clearly doing it wrong. I'm running @brigg's Phantastic Phire Pharm #125 at 4/8 with my 50 spines/fire/fire brute (I really hate Spines but boy does it get the job done) with no xp. I have a door sitter in tow on regular xp/inf (no xp boosters -- I wanted to see how long it would take). Anyway, my 50 seems to be consistently pulling in about 3.4mm per mission, or 17mm for all five. That doesn't seem to jibe with some of the number I've seen bandied about in terms of inf/hour. I'm not setting any speed records, but I find it hard to believe that people are running a full circuit in 12-15 minutes? I'm wondering if I have a setting wrong. Second, I was sure that there would be more wiggle room in order for strong marketing to make some serious incremental income. But so far (only about 5 circuits so far), I'm getting a lot fewer IO recipes than I would like -- like 5-10 per run. Yes, the purples and PvPs are nice, but the yellows and the oranges are seeming like a waste of time, market-wise. They cost almost half a million to craft, and level 50 is a terrible spot to get good value. Anyone with more direct experience want to chime in? Paging @Ukase!

Maybe I'm doing the math wrong?!? 999,999 merits rounded up to 1mm merits and 5 merits/booster = 200,000 boosters @ 1mm each = 200bn inf I assume that the title of the thread was a typo?!?

Nothing. But diving boxer dogs notice a missing 198bn! That's why they should be in charge of Wall Street.

I think the breakdown in communication is 999,999 merits v. 9,999 merits? Either that or you are getting *ripped off* on your boosters!

Something is not adding up here. I guess, to be more accurate, something is not multiplying/dividing up here. ?

Plus, you had to pay a conversion fee of 250k inf in order to swap those merits for a converter. I really wish HC would tone back their generosity with converters, since really it's only benefiting me and other ebils. I'm against this in principle, since I personally think it makes things too easy. But then again, we have the Character Items account-wide pool. It might be interesting if there was some mechanism to move items to the Character Items pool without buying packs.

The bad news is that I now know what the short-term cap is in the market. The good news is that I'm chipping away at the packs beneath you.

I have not gotten past the planning stages yet, but I was hoping that the Hybrid: Melee: Radial taunt aura would help? Does anyone have any experience with that?