Yomo Kimyata

Hmm, so you say you are mass farming the market?

If you listed it under 2mm, then I'd put in a bug ticket. Otherwise, you clearly are not the lowest offer.

Teleport internal organs out of your enemy’s body. Instant kill, but only for tanks.

right now, someone’s announcement screen is lighting up with “You have bought Luck Charm” and “You have sold Luck Charm”.

Now, it's started to get interesting. If you're watching the number of items for sale, from yesterday to today there are about 100,000 additional pieces of common salvage being offered and about 25,000 additional pieces of uncommon salvage being offered (rare salvage roughly the same). So, someone or someones spent their holiday clicking and dragging about 12,500 stacks of 10x salvage. Ho ho ho indeed. So what does this mean? I didn't bother to check out at what price I thought they were offering at. If you think that the price of common and uncommon salvage are too high, then by all means dump your stashes into these bids! In the short term, it's easier for one person to keep up consistent bids for thousands of pieces. But in the long run, supply from simply playing the game will vastly outweigh the potential demand for crafting purposes. In my opinion, that is.

Combat Teleport is a great power! Automatically adds 7% to hit out of the box. That's more than Focused Accuracy or Targeting Drone and there's no endurance drain. Use powexeclocation 0:2 combat teleport and you are basically popping an Insight. With just the basic slot, you can put in a 50+5 to hit IO to get over 9% to hit. You can mule a stealth, or a +4 knockback protection, or a 20% slow resist. You can even get an 11% chance to trigger a Gaussians proc, which is good for 100% damage and +40% to hit for 5 1/4 seconds. It's good stuff. What does this have to do with the original post? Dunno. But it's a great power if you have one slot and one power pool open.

It wriggled and jiggled and tickled inside her! She swallowed the spider to catch the fly. But I don't know why she swallowed the fly.

Said the fly, "Let us flee!" "Let us fly!" said the flea So they flew through a flaw in the flue

This is the way.

They've told us in threads, but I can't remember exactly where. Common, uncommon, rare salvage were seeded with ten million pieces at 10,000; 100,000; and 1,000,000 respectively. Functionally, it's like someone's character owns them and is listing them for sale at that price. I would presume that if, for some reason, people bought all ten million pieces of seeded salvage that the devs would put another ten million for sale.

Unless you take out all the seeded salvage at 10k, and I mean every last one of those ten million of them, you're not going to be able to drive prices *higher* than 10k. Well, at least only for the period of time in which the hamster wheel that is the /AH needs to process those sales. It's essentially a big spreadsheet.

I do have to give this person some credit (and I do think it is one person, and they may even be reading this forum. It’s not me, but I wouldn’t tell you even if it were, so take that with a grain of salt.). They’ve taken down over 300k of listed commons that were all listed at over 1,000 ( I’m guessing). It takes about 3-4 minutes for the AH to process buying or selling 1000 items. (Don’t believe me? Try bidding on 100x10 lots at 10k, or try selling 100x10 lots at 1.). Add in the amount of time it takes to bid 100x10 and the amount of time it takes to pull them off the AH and vendor or delete them. Probably north of 5 minutes but let’s call it 5. Then they did it 300 times. Now that is commitment to a bit. I doubt they were actually using the salvage to craft, but imagine the time suck if they did!?! So you get a golf clap from me. Nicely done.

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.