Yomo Kimyata

Don't cry for me, Sergeant Tina! Thanks to fungibility, pooling, merits, and converters, even if I were the only Yomo in Yomoville, I'd be able to come up with everything I needed with the sole exception of HOs/DSOs (and even then, I'd probably be able to fast solo my way through a LOT of Aeon SFs, but that would be wicked tedious). In fact, being alone would make it much easier to transform items through the /AH (like setting levels or swapping between attuned/non-attuned). To your first point, you're trying to buy low and sell high. So is everyone else! You need more patience and perhaps need to keep an eye on that niche. To your second point, mass farming the market is easy -- always has been. But there's not enough demand from end users to justify it. I mean, you can buy a hundred Cleaving Blows a day and turn them all into LotG +rechs. It's probably not particularly efficient (and you're far better off cracking them into a wide variety of goods) but picking up a few hundred thousand converters isn't all that difficult (although tedious). Let me give you a concrete example that might address some of your concerns. Sudden Acceleration KB to KD. Some people find these very useful (personally, I generally use the Avalanche proc or the OF proc, but if you are dealing with something like Lightning Clap which doesn't take melee aoE or universal damage it works). Last 5 history probably shows something with a low of about 2mm and a high of 5-6mm. The low is from someone making one of these and selling it at 5 inf and hitting the highest outstanding bid. Maybe that is a flipper; maybe it's just someone trying to buy it on the cheap, but the trade prints because someone wanted to sell it nao. The high is probably either someone reaching for it, because there aren't a lot for sale, so they bought it nao. Why aren't there a lot for sale? Because I don't really care enough about it to put a bunch for sale, and if I am going to put a bunch for sale, it will be at some ridiculous high price because I'm not doing this just to make you feel better. Why doesn't someone else put a bunch up for sale at low prices? I mean, it's ridiculously easy to make them. Buy a bunch of Kinetic Crash recipes at level 21 (or any level 21-49, I use 26). Convert once by KB and you either have a Sudden Acceleration or a Force Feedback. You've got a 1/12 chance of it being a SA proc. If it's a different SA, you can convert in set until you get the proc (on average, that will take 5 conversions or 15 converters), or you can just convert by rare to something else. If it's a FF and it's a proc, you can sell it. If it's a FF and not a proc you can convert by KB again and have a 50-50 shot of getting an SA. Or you can rare roulette it. The point is, it costs under 100k to buy the recipe, salvage, and craft it, and then on average maybe 1mm to convert it into this item. You could make a thousand a day and list them at 1mm and still probably make a tiny profit. (Well, on the ones you sell. I'd guess you could probably expect to sell maybe 10-20 a day to end users.) Me? I don't really need a profit at all anymore, but I'm sure as Joey Jo-Jo Junior Shabadoo not going to work for a tiny one. So it's a liquidity issue, a buy/sell it nao issue, and a "I really don't understand converters or the /AH process, or I just don't care" issue.

I've been getting into the habit of adding Renewal of Light to my characters. It's a really cheap self-res that gets you back in action quickly as oppose to wakies.

This is true. There is SO MUCH STUFF out there, and thanks to converters it's all topographically equivalent. A Trap of the Hunter = a Luck of the Gambler. Entomb = Avalanche. This is true. Your traditional market providers have gotten tired of providing liquidity, since they have enough inf to do anything. The Buy/Sell-it-nao crowd are in charge and they are complainy! This is true. Lots of people (or a small number of people with a huge number of things in storage) have cleaned house. It's still happening in a lot of places. I've come to realize that the big converter dump around 27:4 was a few big time farmers going through all their alts and dumping all their merits and emp merits. I mean, how many unused merits do you think there are *still* in the system right now? Millions, easily. This is false. There are certainly whales, and their actions can be outsized. Not just because they have a lot of inf, but because they have a lot of knowledge about how things actually work. They also probably have a lot of alts, a lot of market slots, and a lot of patience. There are only a few thousand active players at this point, and I think it's a very safe assumption that there are probably a dozen or so who are "behind" things like the great purple accumulation or the LotG crash. That said, humans and vampires alike tend to come up with conspiracy theories about how someone is out to get them when it's really just a dynamic system working its way out. And never, never forget that at the end of the day, it's player demand that is driving things and that has dropped like a lead balloon in 2022. And I, for one, am not going to be the one standing there with a big pile of useless inventory when the music stops. All this is based on my opinions, observations, and experiences. I'm pretty sure that it's mostly accurate but maybe there really are meetings of the shadowy cabal and I just didn't get invited!

I have to admit, the idea of being able to craft the rules for what *I* think is ideal game play for me, then getting Homecoming to host and maintain it for free is pretty enticing. But, nah, hardly seems just. I'm gonna let those tank-loving, AFK-farming-hating, power-creeping crazy-ass kids do what they want to do.

Under level 30 or so, every additional power is exciting and new. It's like being a little kid and opening your Xmas stocking and getting toys and candy. Over 35 or so, every additional power is helping you round out your character, probably with additional survival skills. It's like getting pairs of socks in your Xmas stocking. The question is: are you the type of person to get mad that the socks aren't candy, or are you the type to say, "You know, I really do need a new pair of socks!"

If I have learned one thing about life on HC, it is that unless a power is the absolute best in its class, enough people will complain until the devs improve it enough so that it is now the absolute best in class. And so the cycle continues. I'm looking forward to how good my broadsword/regen brute is going to be, since I anticipate that soon broadsword will get something like a 5% chance for decapitation for double damage after all bonuses on all attacks. Unless you are a tanker, of course, in which case it's instant death for the GM you are fighting.

First, to @Ston, thanks for putting a lot of documented work into this. People may not agree with all your choices, but the fact is that you tested a lot of data in a consistent manner and kept good records and that is enough for me. One gold star for you! RE: Wall of Force. The proc rates on this pool power by my calculations are significantly lower than anything in the epic pools (for scrappers at least). I can't bring myself to 4/5 proc out a power when each proc only has a 15-25% chance to proc. Too much variance. I'd much rather proc out Ball Lightning or Sploding Shirkin which should get me somewhere north of 50% chance per proc. That said, if you want more than one epic ranged AoE, WoF is, in fact, a ranged AoE.

I thought everyone here preferred the word "pooled" to "fungible"?!?

Heh. I've often said that it's a lot easier to get the market to do something it already wanted to do. There were/are a lot of stored up purples and oranges, and that's fine and dandy but there's nowhere near the amount of demand there once was. I figured I'd get out while the getting's good and managed to sell off a lot of what I had in storage. Which was sizeable. I was/am a bit surprised to see the selloff continuing, but I am sure that there were/are people with stashes that dwarfed mine. There have been mass consistent buyers of purple recipes forever, and I shudder to think of how many were being held in inventory. So anyway, at this point, I'm just a bit player in purples and oranges, although I'm still a net seller!

Here's another take, (but I get that it's not for everyone): Only three offensive attacks from the primary, and slotting Hand Clap to the MAX! I go with Unleash Potential over Rune of Protection because you get a lot more value from the defense and the healing from the former than from the resistance of the latter. Moment of Glory is a set mule once you max out recharge, and I used it for endurance and slow resist. Levels 38-44 power are kind of up to you, but you'll probably want some extra offense and if you get three slots of a ST ranged and two slots of an AoE ranged, you've got your 100% slow resist. I like the Triumphant Insult proc in Integration, because it's sneaky. In and of itself it's pretty useless, but it's gonna help you stun a lot of bosses, especially if you choose Control Hybrid. If you want to take only two ancillary/patron pool powers, take taunt and stick another one in there as well.

I just can't stop. My cyberpunk SG on Excelsior currently has: Johnny Pneumatic Johnny Gnomonic Johnny Chthonic

To OP, I just want to make sure that you understand that salvage in each category is exactly the same in terms of price and volume. I apologize if I am repeating something you already know, but when salvage (common, uncommon, rare) is put into the /AH system, it is fungible, or bucketed. If I sell an inanimate carbon rod, it goes into the pool of "common". If you bid for a spiritual essence and buy one, it comes out of that pool of "common".

I've been taking out a few Radiation Melee characters out since the IG pulse nerf. I've been having troubles with hostage missions, but couldn't figure out why until the Rescue Wormy mission. He stops on the last IG patch and waits there until the new one pops up, then he follows until the next patch. Since patches only spawn every ten seconds now, this makes things very awkward, especially if there are ambushes as well. Yes, I can turn it off, but that adds a lot to my vulnerability, especially since I also have to turn off my stealth (which at least makes logical sense). I totally understand why you wanted to nerf IG for AFK farming proc purposes, but is this throwing out the baby with the bath water?

and useless.

For regen on a brute, a few things that will really help: You can take MoG at level 30 now. It's only 15 seconds, but that's 15 seconds where you should feel pretty confident that nothing will kill you. That's enough time for one of your heals to come back, or to pop an insp. I'm a big fan of getting an additional "oh @#$@" button in the form of Unleash Potential. Totally underrated power pool, IMO. Going Soul Patron pool and taking Darkest Night at lvl 38 now will keep you safer than a cheeseburger at a vegan convention. Three lvl 53 Enzyme HOs will eventually give you the functional equivalent of 16% additional defense. And, as always, remember that Instant Healing is a proactive choice rather than a reactive choice. If you are starting to go down, it's too late to pop it. Pop it before a big battle, not in the middle of one.

If you put a chance for KD proc in a power with chance for knockdown, whenever both activate the KD mag stacks high enough to turn into KB. There are a lot of interesting things that can happen with procs!

For my scraxxers, I’m generally going with 3x Superior Scrapper Strike, Armageddon A/D/R boosted and proc, and FF proc. I put the FotG proc in Cleave (as well as the Critical Strikes proc) since Cleave is part of both my ST and AoE chain. Assuming you are fighting 3+ in the mob, crit strikes proc should trigger practically every time. (Lead with Cyclone and everyone is pulled next to you. You know who is now within three feet of your target next to you? Everyone.)

I had been accumulating so much stuff for so long. But I finally got to the point where I wanted to put my inf where my mouth was and to cash out before the music stopped. I'd rather sit on a huge pile of inf than have a huge pile of inventory that is worthless in a fire sale. I mean, I even opened all my Winter Packs!

Oh, you don't want to see that, because it's cranky. Maybe I'll monologue another time. But, as a way to demonstrate we do already have the tools available to clean up our own playpens, here's this guide again. I know, I know, you (generic you, not anyone in particular) don't want to do this. Great, but it does work, and you are certainly allowed to opt out of using this method or others that will clean up your inventory.

Try a new Axe scrapper. You should be able to hover 7 feet above the crowd and smear them with Cleave and Pendulum at little personal risk. Easy enough to softcap ranged defense on a number of builds.

With a FF in both Pendulum and Axe Cyclone, it's reasonable to assume that you should have the proc activated most of the time in combat. This was a good combo before the axe changes and it's kind of ridiculous now!

If you are forgetting to activate your stances after defeats, try putting your default next to your armor toggles. Makes it easier to not overlook, especially if you tend to be in Body/Offensive. I mean, you don't forget to activate Hardened Carapace or Tough before battle, do you?