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100 reward merits gets you your choice of ATO. Super packs are more cost effective (since 100 merits can also get you a Winter-O, which sells for twice an ATO) but you don't know what you'll get.

Staff/bio or bio/staff.

At this point, I rarely spend merits at all and I tend to use them for unslotters or catalysts or boosters. Everything generally is cheaper in terms of inf on the AH.

I’m having a hard time reconciling supply with demand. Let’s look at just two items: Winter packs and a generic Winter o. you could buy infinite winter packs at 10mm, and you can now buy infinite at 25mm. Anecdotally, people who have posted in this forum bought over 10,000 of these packs during the sale. I think the total number was much much higher. Lets’s look at three options and three time frames: 1. Sell your winter pack; 2. Open packs and sell the basics (for me that’s enhancements and winter os, converted sometimes); 3. Open packs and sell everything, including merits; a. During winter event; b. Soon(tm) after winter event; c. Later(tm), but before next winter event. 1a is off the table, but I have been doing 1b, 2a, 2b, 3a, 3b like crazy. And based on my observations of winter o flow, I’m really concerned that there is a shit ton of pent up supply. I’m estimating that under a thousand winter os trade per day, and I’m buying a goodly portion of the ones getting dumped on the market. Just curious what you see and think.

I have to think the horse is pretty much out of the barn on almost all of this. I haven't seen much evidence of changes in market activity based on posts in this forum, so either we are not getting new readers or our ebil activity is swamped by the inertia of non-forum users.

For LOTG, the "easiest" way is to buy level 41 recipes for Reactive Defenses or Red Fortune, craft, convert. Or you can buy them precrafted and convert. You can also move down the chain and add lvl 31 Gift of the Ancients or Serendipity, but your conversion odds drop a lot so you will be burning more converters.

Nerf time travel!

Nerf [XYZ] needs a boost threads!

Attuned IOS pick a random level within the range they are available and you can’t see what that level is. So a failed conversion occurs when you try to convert, but there is nothing at that random level to convert to.

I cannot guarantee this 100%, but I feel very confident that I have converted by rarity and gotten the same category but in a different set, e.g., converting a Smashing Haymaker by common, getting a Focused Smite.

I don't know how the RNG does the rarity thing. One logical way would be to look at every rare set that this *could* be converted to, choose one, then assign which enhancement in the set it is. Another logical way would be to look at every rare enhancement that this could be converted to and choose one. If it's the former, then you might have a (for example, making this up entirely) 1 in 45 chance of getting a winter's gift, but if it's the latter you would have a lesser chance (since winter's gift only has three enhancements in the set). There may also be observer bias. I tend to notice when I get things that are worthless to me, like winter's gift or snipes, but don't pay as much attention if it's something middling, like a melee damage.

You just don't get it. I don't do it BECAUSE it's overpowered. I do it because I really enjoy, um, being overpowered?

Ears perked up. How in the world did you pul that off? The best I’ve heard quoted is about 2mm a minute, so you are doing over five times that?

I’ve converted a lot. A LOT. I can’t say I’ve seen any evidence that the RNG isn’t statistically fair.

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I am 100% for making more content that is truly rare, or hard to acquire. No one needs IOs at all in order to solo AVs. Why not allow people to strive for something unique?

Has anyone else noticed that supply seems to be dropping and prices rising?

If this were to work, I think you would need to front the buyer the capital, then wait a week or two while she does her magic, then collect your items. You can buy 70-90 enhancements in an hour. You cannot buy 70-90 specific enhancements in an hour. That goes to your aversion of being a price taker. I *think* you know that. I enjoy getting bang for the buck, but if you want to contract this out, I really think you need to offer a lot more upside. Tell you what, I’ll provide a 1bn build for 5bn. And I’ll pay 1.5bn for a 1bn build. That’s market making!

It feels a bit like Tom Sawyer getting his friends to paint his fence, but power to you! I'd be a buyer of this service. Why not let people contract to provide me goods at the lowest price? I'd make out like a bandit reselling to the AH.

I think you just reinforced my point. If you are joining "PLing" teams, you are doing so either because you find it "too [xyz]" to level normally, or because you just enjoy the experience of zerging. That's cool, and it's your choice. I don't understand why people would make that choice. I'm not saying that everyone HAS to play content at normal speeds. I AM saying that I do not understand anyone's contention that "I choose to skip intermediate content because I would prefer to level to 50, then go back and experience said content through Ouro, preferably with T4 incarnates" I surmise that people do it because it's a lot easier, for example, to fight Atta with T4 incarnates, than without but I don't know!

Again, just my opinion. But my ability to profit per enhancement is happening anyway. Why should I want to provide YOU 5x LotG 7.5% when I can provide five, ten, hundreds to the marketplace? I think I would want something to sweeten the pot. Purples/winters -- terrible profit potential. If you bought winters at 10, good for you! Otherwise buy at 20, sell at 25 for net 2.5mm profit per? Meh LotGs -- costs about 3mm per to make them, on average. Why make you 4 as opposed to making a hundred for the AH? ATOs -- buy at 6mm, spend 500k on converting, sell at 10mm (9 after taxes). Again, why not do this in large quatities? etc. It sounds like you have a good grip on marketing. Why again are you looking to outsource it?

I'm not calling out anyone as a bad player who can't beat a hellion in a straight up battle. Everyone on this forum can punk AVs left handed with their eyes closed. I am saying that if you need a PL, or want one, I don't see a reason other that "It's too hard for me to level my character." Let me rephrase: "It's too much effort (sigh) for me to level my character." That's fine! Up to you. I just don't get it. It just seems to me a way to do the same exact content through Ouro only with incarnate abilities so it becomes even easier.

I'm being simplistic, but this is just another case of "it's too much effort". That's fine. No one said you have to play every alt at +4/x8 from Outbreak (although that IS a challenge).

Right. Too hard.

The more I think about it, the only reasons that I see for power leveling are PvP or because the regular content is too hard.