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I am soothed by that knowledge, thank you.

In my experience, mercs are the shortest kid in the class. I can't speak for the personal attacks, since I rarely take them on MMs, but the pets are pretty lackluster. Something that would help a lot (but would keep them at the bottom of the pack) would be change Serum into a mule power for IO sets, like Necro and Thugs have.

I think the most profit you can make is to buy the packs now, then unpack them when the event is over and try to sell the contents for 30-35mm, net. Reselling the packs post-event is also good, and assuming that you price appropriately and make sales at 25mm, you'll get 22.5mm net for a lot less effort. Last year, I really expected a huge race to the bottom. It was so obvious how a 60% sale on significant size was profitable that I assumed *everyone* would do the same thing. I was actually looking forward to seeing what happened to Winter Packs in the aftermarket. But nope, day after the event ended, people started paying 25mm again and it felt like I was the only one with any supply. So I held onto them and gradually liquidated. This year, I think people are smarter and there is an order of magnitude or two more of disposable inf, so I'm hoping we see a different type of post-event equilibrium.

Ok, for posterity's sake as of right now there are 9,983,800 for sale. 1 December 2020 1:45PM EST.

Dammit, now I have to buy all of them and relist.

@Ukaseby any chance did you track the number for sale before the event started?

I like doing the Frostfire mission and positioning myself next to an ice column when destroying the first key. If you set it up right it blows you back into the column then up to the top of the column where you hover for a few seconds before coming back down.

Sorry, had to correct that! NEVER FORGET THE VIG! If they go on sale, I don't see how I can't buy a bunch of them. At some tipping point, it's possible that so many people will buy them that demand for WOs will be overfilled tenfold. I mean, I have over 100 alts, most of which are completely tricked out (although most under 50) and I might have a total of 100 individual WOs among them at the absolute most.

Since the last time I saw this thread, I've moved on to a new RP project on Excelsior. A supergroup called The DEFCON 5. Five females who formed an elite team to protect the POTUS and the nuclear football, but the team disbanded for unexplained reasons. Starting as heroes but will switch over via alignment missions at level 20. DC5 Fade Out: (Blue) Ice Melee/Rad Armor Stalker DC4 Double Take: (Green) Illusion/Rad Controller DC3 Round House: (Yellow) Martial Arts/Ice Armor Brute DC2 Fast Pace: (Red) Fire Blast/Radiation Corruptor DC1 Cocked Pistol: (White) Storm/Dual Pistol Defender

I made a similar choice recently. I play rather than rush, so I choose in part by how quickly I want to get certain powers.

When deciding an armor set, I ask a series of questions: 1. What’s the thematic choice? This trumps all. There are very few things you *can’t* do with any given set. 2. Do I want defense or resistance or healing or combinations? I tend to prefer resist sets for brutes and tanks, for example. 3. What are the bells and whistles? For example I generally try to avoid sets where I need to activate mez resist.

I do both. I use email for short-term holding until it starts getting full then I move it to bids on a (hopefully) nonexistent item. Email in the past has generally been buggier than the AH, believe it or not, so I don't count on it still being there from day to day. Also, I have heard that you can only have 100 emails at a time, which puts an upper limit on your storage.

Part of it also is the "did this happen or didn't it?" memory/reality wipes like House of M and the Sentry. Part of it is that everything is a Secret.

This is the thing that is throwing me off. I'm having a difficult time trying to figure out what is or is not canon anymore, or even if the whole concept of canon has been thrown out the window. These are great suggestions, and I'm SUPER thankful for them all!

I just created an air pressure-powered technology scrapper named Johnny Pneumatic. EDIT: Also a sun-powered energy/time blaster named Johnny Gnomonic.

Ok, I've gotten to the point in the pandemic where I've subscribed to Marvel Unlimited for (almost) unlimited browsing of comics on my tablet. My question is, what has happened since the late 1980s (when I last spent time reading monthlies) and what should I be reading? I've seen just about every Marvel-associated movie (including the Dolph Lungren Punisher, which was the best, fight me!) so I'm trying to catch up with the universe and catch the great stories that I've missed. What do I like? Well, I have to admit I started with everything Marvel Zombie, so there's that. As far as what is my favorite style, I love Sandman and Neil Gaiman, so I've also read his Eternals series. Outside of that, I'm kind of picking and choosing. Any thoughts?

I would guess those were parking bids.

It appears there were a small number of 1bn bids still out there, and a larger number of 100mm bids. I'm not sure if the latter are still there or not -- I soaked up about 10 of them (but missed the big fish). Also, my noob traps were moderately effective...

I don't like the incarnate system. The interface is ridiculously bad. Half the powers are extraordinarily overpowered, and half are generally harmless. Most of the time it makes a near god-like character into full god-like. But it does a terrible job of making a mediocre character into a great character, imo. My incredibly unpopular suggestion: Make all incarnate salvage fungible by rarity and lock it account-wide, so you can move incarnate salvage from one character to another. Then lock the number of incarnates per account to one. You want a godlike character? You get one. You want two? Make a new account or demote your other god. One thing about living in Paragon City I never could stomach, all the damn godlike characters.

It is my hunch that a reason that they haven't made this update in a while is that the population has dropped a lot since March, which is fine with me, but may result in a lot of DOOOOOOOM(tm)ing.

I just had my major oopsie. Made a new villain as a tanker, took him through the tutorial, opened an email holding 999,999,999 in order to buy some things from the P2W. Ran a few missions and decided I'd like him better as a brute, so deleted and remade him. And finally, as I was wondering why my new brute had no inf, it struck me.

I've been thinking about this for a long time. Very few of my characters get significant play once they ding 50, and I keep hoping that I'll find that magical combination that will keep me interested for a while. I think my criteria are: 1. Melee oriented, so brute/scrapper/stalker/tanker. 2. Damage aura preferred but optional. 3. PBAoE Heal that takes Accurate Healing and Damage Procs. 4. Has at least one attack with KB for FF +recharge proc. 5. Positional defense oriented, rather than typed defense. 6. PBAoE friendly in both primary and secondary. 7. Endurance tools available pre level 35. 8. Can solo AVs/GMs without temp powers. So far, I've probably come closest with my quartet of lvl 50 Staff/Bio // Bio/Staff, yet I really don't feel much desire to pull them out for a "spin". I was hoping to get some real affection for Rad Armor or Energy Aura, but they feel "meh" to me.

I will never forget the first time I discovered the Shadow Shard on Live. I spent weeks in there. I wish, how I wish, that there would be a Rularuu invasion again in dreary old Paragon City.

Millions are big numbers! Big!!!

Pricing strategy is an astonishingly large component of success in the AH.