Yomo Kimyata

I call it PVT: Patience, Volume, and

That is absolutely the fly in the ointment.

I professionally squat for inf. Timing.

I was just reading an article in the NYT that was questioning the scientific value of blue light glasses: https://www.nytimes.com/2021/02/18/style/blue-light-glasses.html?searchResultPosition=4 And to hedge their bets, they also have an article on the best blue light glasses: https://www.nytimes.com/wirecutter/reviews/best-blue-light-blocking-glasses/?searchResultPosition=2

So in today's episode, Miss Terrigen 1.1 meets BV and realizes that +2 ghouls are no fun at all. I start all my characters at +1/x1 with bosses on, and it's not that I regret it, but I'm going to have to do something in order to stop missing so much. Anyway, I've now run two story arcs for 10 merits in total, and am just short of lvl 8. The first thing I did when logging on was hit Inner Inspiration and sell the large yellow inspiration for 3,000. Then I asked myself, hey, why are large yellows so cheap compared to reds and purples? Demand! So let's put in some bids for the ones that are cheap, transform 3 of them into a red or purple, and resell! It's not a super fast endeavor, but it's a great way to turn 10k into 50k on a relatively short turnaround. Remember, in the AH, time is your friend. By playing the slow game, you are trading convenience to others at the price of their inf. They say the first million is the hardest, but I'd actually say the first 10mm are the hardest, because that's what you need to buy the portable workbench from the P2W. Until then, I need to find a place to craft! Fortunately, the wiki tells me of the C.D.E.C., which is apparently the equivalent of the University goldside. So, take me down to the Imperial City, where the pints are Imperial and they sing this ditty. Oh, but before I do, I need to go to the Merit Vendor and trade in my ghoul-blood soaked merits for those magical animals -- converters. 30 in my pocket. So first step, let's take the 20 brainstorm ideas and craft them to a Hamidon Goo. It cost me 20 * 16k = 320k to make this, and I can make a profit as long as I sell it for over about 356k. Remember always that selling is going to cost you 10% in total of the sales price. I like to refer to this as the 9/10 or the 10/9 rule for breaking even. For acceptable profits, I tend to look more at a 5/10 or 10/5 rule, but you can work as cheap as you want. Just make sure you don't lose money on the trade unless that was your intention. Anyway, looking at the current market for rare salvage, I choose my sales price and in short order sell it for 450k, which was more than I expected. Good, I need some posting money. Now let's look at the 30 recipes I bought overnight: lvl 20 Quickfoots (running) 10 Endurance, 20 Run Speed, and paid 10,005 a piece for them. Why Quickfoot, and why level 20? I'm glad you asked. We (or at least I) talk a lot about rare roulette, and there are great guides out there, but it might be easier to give simpler examples. I use rare roulette as a phrase that covers changing cheap recipes or IO enhancements into more expensive IOs through using converters. "Rare" because usually the most expensive IOs are rare/orange, and "cheap" usually means uncommon/yellow recipes or IOs. It's easy to turn an uncommon recipe into a rare IO through conversion, and it's a lot cheaper (generally) than crafting a rare recipe that requires expensive rare salvage. So why Quickfoot? Well, it's one of two Running recipes, and if you spend two converters to convert a Quickfoot by Category (Running), then you will end up with a Celerity, which is the rare Running IO. One of the three Celerity IOs is the +Stealth, which consistently sells well and has decent, if not spectacular, outstanding bids. I generally find this a great way to get my characters kick started. Why level 20? Well, the lower the level, the cheaper the crafting costs. Quickfoot/Celerity starts at level 15, but I've found that level 20 has a much better variety of IOs that I can transform to. So, let's buy my invention salvage. A total of 60 common, paying 250 a pop, which fills almost immediately in the AH. A total of 30 uncommon. At this moment, there appears to be someone bidding 1,001 on large amounts of yellow salvage so I can't buy it at 1,000 right now. Fortunately they also seem to be offering large amounts at 1,002. That's a decent way to get your sales badges for the AH, but as far as I'm concerned I'd rather pay 1,002 to get it right now than to wait for a lower bid to fill. I can afford to craft 10 Quickfoots right now, and I have 30 converters. On your Enhancement bar, you should see options for Manage and Convert. If you don't see Convert, you don't own any converters! It only shows up if you have some in inventory. So I open up Convert, drag a Quickfoot into the interface, select the Out of Set radio button, and use the pull down menu to select Category: Running. I do that ten times (yes, you have to use the pull down menu each time. It's a real drag) and end up with 10 Celerities, and three of them are stealth. I post one for 500,000. I expect it to trade for more, but I never post for less than I want to accept. It sells for 1,755,000, which is more than satisfactory. I sold one more for 1,500,000 and posted the third one at a price I believe will sell in short order. I've now got almost 3mm in inf, which I am going to plough directly back into converters. Right now, the last five trades for converters are all at 75,000 and that is well more than I want to pay. Generally, I pay somewhere between 60k and 70k and it's time to take a break anyhow. Currently level 7, sitting on about 175k of uninvested inf, and 7 level 20 Celerities. Invested time about 25 minutes of game time and about 5 minutes of marketing. Next time, I'll do some rare roulette on those seven (and the other 20 recipes) once I buy my converters. See you soon!

Huh, I find that a little surprising. My experience with solo ITFs is that I assume I'm going to get defense cascade failure at some point, so I max out s/l resist and try to avoid zerging into enemies with both def debuff and res debuff. For me, having two heals up every 30 seconds plus an optional oh shit button from incarnates works just fine as long as I know what I'm getting into. And as people in General (I think that's in Iowa!) say, the best defense is a good offense, especially if your defense is deep in the negatives.

You know what else is sappy?

(EDIT: tl/dr: A great way to make consistent bank, no matter how often you play a given alt, is to put in a bid for 10x a yellow recipe that doesn't require rare salvage as the last thing you do before logging off. First thing you do when next logging on is collect them and put in bids on your salvage. Play and you should have bought your salvage by the end of your game session. Collect salvage, craft, play some rare roulette, and post your items. Put in a bid for 10x yellow recipe. Repeat ad infinitum.) So, I decided to start a new alt, explore Praetoria, and document a solo path from zero to a billion inf in detail, and not at a breakneck pace. I expect to demonstrate a lot of ways to accumulate inf without spending very much effort and to do it in real time. I think a lot of this will be old news to long-time readers of this forum, but I hope someone finds it useful So welcome Miss Terrigen 1.1, a mutant Poison/Radiation Blast Defender. After running through the tutorial, I ended up on the streets of Nova Praetoria at level 2 with nothing but the wings on my back, 25 information in my pocket, and two large inspirations in my, um, I'm actually not sure where I'm keeping those. So they've got to go: open up /AH and post them each for 5 inf and BAM there's my seed money. Since I heard a rumor on a Reddit board, I decide to look up Ancient Artifacts and see how they are trading. Color me surprised to see that there are over 10mm for offer and zero bids. I'm no evil genius (in this incarnation) but I realize that I'm pretty likely to buy me some common salvage if I'm willing to put some bids in. Since I'm not greedy, let's bid 55 inf a piece for as many as I can carry, then do some work for Praetor Barry White. A few missions later, I'm dinging level 4 and going to the vendor to sell my inventory of ancient artifacts, then refill my bids for more. You can repost them on the AH as well, but I'd rather take the sure money right away from the vendor. Don't forget that when you open the vendor window, you can right click on the stack (I think it was 124 deep at this point) and sell the entire stack at once. So, I've quadrupled my initial stake, and I'm going to keep doing this while I go pick some roses. Soon I ding 5, get a new contact, clean out my inventory again and now I've got low six figures of inf. Let's try out something else that I wrote a guide about a long time ago and see if anyone is selling any cheap SOs. So I set filters on the AH for levels 40 to 54, click the For Sale toggle, and I'm bidding on any accuracy and damage SOs available. Again, since I'm not greedy, I'm bidding at 10k a piece. Let's give people a little love, right? I can sell all for them for about a 5k profit, so we're good. At this point, I'm going to invest a little bit in myself at the P2W vendor or whatever it is called. Spend 10k on Reveal, 5k on a jetpack, get Athletic Run and decide to pick up Inner Inspiration as well. The last is another great way to get seed money -- every 30 minutes you get three medium or large inspirations. The larges are generally good for at least a few thousand inf in the AH. I'm not sure how long I've been playing now, certainly well under an hour. I'm going to log, but before I do I put in bids on three recipes at 10x apiece (I'll reveal names and prices next episode). I've got 340,939 inf left over, and I hate leaving that unused. Remembering that brainstorm ideas trade at 20:1 for a rare salvage, I put in bids for enough to buy one rare salvage worth and hopefully make a small profit. Until next time!

You should be able to solo those with any AT that can solo Doc V as an AV. So just about any AT if you want to carry daggers and/or purple inspirations.

The silver lining to this supply deluge is that people started selling into my noob traps again.

I use Time Manipulation to simulate "luck" powers for my concept characters. YMMV.

There appear to be a lot of bids out there higher than yours. I’ve been able to buy decent size north of 360 but south of 400.

I've got a 50 there. The main selling point is that you get two damage auras and you hit like a really slow brick. I think I'm respecing for something like:

RE: cowmanning. In January I leaned into things a little, meaning that I made sure I didn't take a day off. I have a small circuit of seven alts that I run through in the morning over coffee; if I had time I would revisit two or three of them in the evening. Total time spent under an hour, and usually while I'm multitasking. The basic premise is doing the difficult, difficult work of changing lead into gold and receiving a small fee for my efforts. Really, I should get a medal for all I do for the community... Anyway I tracked the profitability by sector and it's way up there. I have a larger circuit as well that I run every few days that involves slower moving commodities and that spits out inf in larger chunks. I do it because I find it soothing, making order out of chaos and taking my (rather large) cut. Ooh, and I found 500 winter packs on an alt that were left over from the Winter Event before last. RE: real life investments. My style is a mixture of value-based with a soupcon of behavioral economics. This works very well with the sort of statistical arbitrage that we see in the AH, but in real life I stay far away from the things that get lots of attention in the news. I'm on the side of the shorts in the Gamestop debacle fundamentally, but applaud the short squeezers for manipulating the flawed (bugged?) system of shorting. That said, I'm not a first mover and I'm not going to buy anything that I can't break down into its component pieces and extract value. That generally keeps me out of things like crypto and even gold, because fundamentally to me the current value is only what I am able to get someone else to pay for it, and I don't understand tulipmania. RE: the pandemic. I thank my lucky stars every day for this game and the people in it. It certainly helps to soften the situation.

I was (deliberately) married on a Friday the 13th, and every one is an anniversary. You scared the crap out of me, but the next one is in August. Happy Lunar New Year y’all though!

I don't get Call Bruiser for another level.

Peppa Pig is the Induced Coma % for -Rech of the porc world:

I haven't read the whole thread, so apologies if it's been mentioned. When I'm a little ahead of my skis when I'm fighting an unexpected EB/AV, I pop out of the mission and *gulp* open up /AH and buy some large purples. Maybe fill up on Good Luck Imbuements before trying him again? They can't one shot your bots if they can't hit them! Also, I've fought him a number of times, but always on melee characters. If I'm able to focus on him, killing him disbands his pets. And of course, make sure you clean out the random enemies so that you don't accidentally aggro anyone other than Calystix and his buddies.

You asked for it:

Them's fightin' words! The farmers and the cowmen should be friends!

fixed that for ya!

Sorry to repeat the clip, but I get so excited with market posts. This demonstrates clearly my contention that in the kinder, gentler AH, there is absolutely nothing that is priced out of reach for a reasonable amount of effort. Two additional observations: 1. The experiments I've run indicate that a kill-all paper mission at 50, be it -1/1 or 4/8, will net you 1-2mm inf if you vendor everything (including IO recipes and rare salvage). 2. Everything you listed can be (and is!) created for even less than the selling prices (except that 6,666 bug).

I'm sorry; that sucks. I didn't sell it. Check out the link in my sig for an easy way to get 20mm back, no strings attached. It's a drop in the bucket against your unfortunate accident, but it's a start!

I organically play all my alts, mostly at double xp, but some I go old school. My 50s are mostly melee, and by the time my melee characters hit 50, they are generally already capable of playing at max difficulty. That doesn't mean that I run them there, but I'll generally try a few missions just to make sure they can. So I'll generally get them alpha slotted and then they mostly sit unless I have a project for them. A few are partially T4ed. I'd like to get more of my non-melees to 50, but I don't really like ranged combat nearly as much. I suspect that I will find that incarnating them will lead to a bigger jump in performance. For my sub-50s, I really like making new alts and playing them up until the mid 20s. By 26, I've gotten to the primary T8, and I probably have a really good feel as to how I like to play the character. And at double xp, it really doesn't take that long. Keep in mind, I slot expensively and aggressively and up my difficulty so the xp comes a-flying! I tend to lose steam with a project in the mid to upper 30s. At 35 I join Vanguard, go to Cimerora, and get patron pools unlocked. By then I'm usually around 37, and I need some impetus to push through into the 40s and beyond.