Yomo Kimyata

There is, of course, the old display bug to consider. But that aside: If you are trying to sell something, and it posts a trade higher than where you were offering, that simply means at the time someone bid that, someone else was offering it cheaper than where you were. Probably working as intended. You can either wait and hope, or you can bite the bullet and repost. If you are trying to buy something, and it posts a trade lower than where you were bidding, something is wrong. I have seen this happen a number of times, which may have been the display bug, but it leads me to believe that sometimes the bidding system doesn't work as intended.

Or of sorcerers.

Thanks for doing this. Some of my stable started to hit 50 over the past few weeks. What really would have been helpful for me would have been a specific description of each of the abilities available and some opinions on what kind of character they would work for. You did a bit of this, and admittedly lots of it are for aesthetics (like judgement), but it would have helped me a lot on my alphas. True, all that info is on Paragonwiki, but you DID say it was comprehensive! Maybe in a future update or a different guide. Thanks again!

I’ve got two staff brutes (/fire at 50 and /Regen at 40). I haven’t taken them for a spin (see what I did there?) recently, but I’ve found that hasten doesn’t really feel like it helps that much on a staffer attack chain. Am I misremembering, or is the hasten mainly for the secondary/pool powers?

Sure, I’ll validate you! Some people like to play chess against grandmasters, and some want to play checkers against toddlers. Sometimes both in the same day! I lean towards seeking challenges myself. At a certain point, there are no more real “rewards” from playing other than the enjoyment of the game itself.

I too would love to see a pro build for this. I’ve built mine organically, so probably am not using bio armor to anywhere near its greatest potential. That said, in mid-30s, I’m mostly soloing TFs, and the offensive output is impressive. I’ve never had an easier time with soloing AVs. Admittedly, they aren’t particularly difficult ones, but I’ve been impressed with the build so far.

If inf is no object, and there's no reason should ever lack it, I'd go with IOs starting at level 12. They aren't great, but they are better than nothing and they don't expire like TOs and DOs. I generally craft/buy generic IOs starting at level 12 and then work in attuned IO sets when I hit certain level milestones like 17. TOs and DOs are vendor fodder. I suggest selling them and using the proceeds towards your IOs.

As MunkiLord says, you may be better off buying whatever purples/ATOs/Winter Os are cheapest and holding them in storage until you figure out what you want. Any random purple plus 1mm worth of conversion rolls will probably not get you the exact purple you want, but it almost certainly will get you something that you can sell for a good price.

Then I am doing it wrong. I’m usually geared up to make first sales and first buys, hundreds at a time. If you are getting even one of the overbids, I’m doing something wrong or there is an error in the queue.

Case in point. When the display bug kicks in I buy and sell hundreds of them a day. One in 5-10 people pay 10mm+ due to the display bug. That one trick has sent many of my toons to college, graduate school, and Congress. Interesting note. Demand for what I consider to be a staple is pretty stable at 100-200 a day.

So today I hopped on my dark/dark defender who I haven’t played in a while. Low to mid 30s, not optimally slotted or IOed. I ran two solo missions and they were more difficult than usual. I chalked that up to WTF. I’m not above eating dirt, but I’m not fond of it. Then i realized my settings were at +4/x8. Im not a godly player by any means, but I get the OPs point even more so. When you can solo missions 4/8 on a defender in your 30s, albeit a good build, maybe we should consider more challenges. When you add level shifted incarnates and purple sets I can’t imagine how much easier it could be. I still don’t get how people think that going to 50, getting incarnate and fully setted, can go back via Ouroboros and meet any sort of challenge. I love fighting Atta, but I’m never going to go back and fight him when buffed. Let my Lore pets fight him. I will take her to Vanguard at lvl 35. Some Debuff magic will slap some sense into me.

Last 5 is a dirty, dirty liar. But I wouldn’t change a thing about it. When people say “X” is going for “Y” inf, it generally just means that’s where the last trade posted. It has some predictive value as to where the next trade will be, but not enough that anyone should say, wow the market has shifted. Believe me when I say that a major shift in a market is usually due to a single person screwing around. i generally price my items to sell by “next log in” so that varies from toon to toon. But I also generally avoid IOS priced <1-2mm. If there is a lot of flow in them, I’m happy to trade Crushing Impacts, you can easily double your money. But you really can’t sell hundreds or thousands of them in a day, I don’t think.

Well, since TFs major stumbling block are the AVs and GMs, I’d say that your major stumbling block would be -regen. The easy path is make the most damage heavy melee character you enjoy, then buy a few hundred envenomed daggers.

Because battle axe and war mace are so similar (they even both have a shovel for a weapon), you need to make a decision as to which one you want. If you are going thematic, that’s all you need. Choose whatever looks good. But if you want to eke out a smidgen of performance, war mace is slightly better. Smashing is better than lethal for the most part. And very rarely, the knock up on battle axe turns into knock back. It’s mostly when you are fighting lower level mobs, but sometimes at even or higher level. I’ve never seen knock back on war mace at even level.

Maybe you should set your missions on +4/x8 earlier?

It's something I never thought about before. Why do you want the walls to come down? What personally do you have to gain from that? Is it RP or play related? If it's significant and many/most players want it and it's easily and cheaply accomplished, then I have no objection.

I went back to mine and got into the mid/high 30s. The endurance drain is the big problem. Even with the Performance Shifter proc, Miracle proc, and Numina's proc, I was taking a knee after every other fight. At level 35 I took Energy Mastery/Superior Conditioning and stuck a performance shifter proc in there. It was not a game changer, but helped a lot. It's sexy and fun to take Shield Charge at 35, but this seems a smarter move to me. I'll take Shield Charge at 38 and Physical Perfection at 41. I think BA/SD will be great at 50 with a good build and IOs. I think that getting there without set bonuses or IO procs must be just awful. I'm at 36 and over the soft cap on melee defense and over 30% on ranged and AoE. Nothing hits me until I get in one of those DE situations where the spawn drops 3 Cairns and 1 Quartz. Then I drop in seconds.

Frankly, I don’t understand why everyone doesn’t do it this way. The cost of buying attuned sets is relatively small, certainly when compared to various ways of earning influence. Also, you get so much more bang for your buck and playing time. I’d much rather spend 25mm on two sets of Kinetic Combat for my level 17 than spend it on one purple for my 50, who is arguably already overpowered as it is. I have a handful of 50s and haven’t respecced any yet, since I’m lazy and I don’t feel that the time and effort to do so would markedly improve performance or my playing experience.

In the AH, under Recipes: Other you can buy a respec recipe for 200-300k. I don't think you can get them there for a fixed inf cost.

In the AH, there are two categories for enhancements, attuned and ?can’t remember what the category is named? Crafted? Anyway, the crafted and attuned categories are fungible. That means if someone offers a level 30 steadfast protection at 5mm, you can buy it for 5mm at level 10, or you can buy the attuned version for 5mm. You can also attune one yourself with a catalyst, but that’s a waste of money. Attuned level with you to the extent of the set’s level restrictions. An attuned steadfast protection can be equipped at lvl 7 and will offer better benefits as you level until you hit 27, which maxes out the benefit.

So far my personal record for in-set conversions is 56 rolls before getting the one I wanted. I spent 168 converters getting what I wanted. That's a (80% ^ 56) or 0.0003741% chance. Call it a one in 267,276 chance. I posted it at 50mm, just for the sake of principle. Sometimes, I'm a real dingbat.

The quickest way is not always the most profitable, but it might be the most profitable per click. I used to have a marketing toon whose only job was to buy lvl 31 Serendipity and Gift of the Ancients. If they converted to Reactive Defenses or Red Fortune, I’d sell them to another toon in blocks at lvl 41 to improve the odds of converting to LotG. I dont think the demand is deep enough any more to reach that deeply for supply, but I made lots of inf that way.

Well, I guess it depends on what you are AE farming for. If you are seeking rewards in terms of inf, or drops, or even merits, yeah, I can see that. I can even see AE farming for the sake of farming. It’s mindlessly entertaining! I made a thread about it. But at some point we no longer need rewards. We have outfitted all our alts with purples and winter os. There is nothing left to seek rewards for except for posting really big numbers. At that point, maybe you’ve won the game, if there is such a thing.

Breaking the law? Not for me to decide. I don’t have relevant legal expertise there. “Wrong” or “ripping off” intellectual property? I hadn’t thought about it enough to have a strong opinion. Relevant to my gameplay of CoX or HC’s wish to mitigate risk? Not in the slightest. It’s no skin off my nose to see a character named “Steeve Roggers” dressed in red, white, and blue. But if HC feels that poses a risk to the long term viability of this server, then I encourage their picking up the ban hammer faster than Captain America picked up Mjolnir. Oops, spoiler alert. Cmon people, we saw that coming! Im not sure what your objective here is but I suspect you are trying to set me up with a “LMAO, HYPOCRITE!!!1!” Have at it. I’ve repeatedly avowed that my opinion is irrelevant. If your end game is to get me to say my opinion is wrong, then you’ve got a long tough slog ahead of you.

I’m long overdue for this, but thank you. I am grateful for being able to play this game again, especially with a critical mass of other players.