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Mender Lazarus was originally named Tom Sawyer and that fence isn’t going to paint itself.

Nope, both enhancements and recipes are fungible. You can sell a level 50 and buy it at level 10.

You covered a lot there, and much of it was a lot more subtle than most will give you credit for, you sly minx! I may or may not come back to some of that later, but I've got guides in progress on similar things. I think you are conflating what something is "worth" versus where you can buy or sell it (and even those are separate from your titular question of where to list it!). This may sound like semantics, but these semantics are what got me my first trillion inf. Let's look at your example of the Obliteration proc, and let's assume that I own the recipe and all the relevant salvage (2x common, 1x uncommon. 1x rare) that all came as drops. If it's a level 50, I can spend 490,500 inf to craft it and now I have a level 50 Oblit proc. If I want it attuned then I can use a catalyst that let's assume I got as a drop as well. If you are using it, great! but let's look at alternatives. Now, it looks like I can probably sell the recipe for 800,000 based on the /AH, possibly more but it looks like someone is buying there. I can vendor the common and uncommon salvage for 1,500, and I can probably get 500,000 (definitely 400,000) for the rare salvage in the /AH. So 1,300,000 less 10% = 1,170,000+1,500 = 1,171,500 inf if I sell the materials, and more if I sell the catalyst as well. I feel pretty confident that I can buy an attuned Oblit proc on the /AH for 1mm or less within a few hours, so even if I had all the stuff lying around and even ignoring crafting costs, I probably wouldn't waste time or effort crafting it. In fact, I probably would just vendor the recipe for 10k rather than even check to see what it is going for on the /AH.

Utility can be subjective, but I think it's fair to say that prices in the /AH for converters and boosters are primarily driven from the supply side at this point in time. Even though you *can* get converters from drops (but not boosters), the vast vast majority are coming from merit conversions. Economic theory and basic math would indicate that if the price ratio of boosters to converters in the /AH differs significantly from 15:1 then one would expect merit farmers to shift their conversions to whichever salvage is more lucrative. Right now, converters seem to be running consistently at 60k +/-, which would put "fair value" for boosters at 900k.

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Bio is easily one of the best armors. However, it does not have defense debuff protection, and if that is how OP defines what "sucks" means then yes it does suck. If you are fighting a mob of 15 centurions and everyone of them swings at you with an attack that causes -10 defense every three to five seconds, you should be aware that will floor your defense pretty quickly once a few hits get through. It's known as "cascading defense failure" and if you are new to the game you can read about it here: https://homecoming.wiki/wiki/Cascading_Defense_Failure

This is nice to read. No one (I don’t think) has the time or motivation to run every combo, so we use mental shortcuts. Claws is a quick low endurance primary; Stone is an endurance hungry hippo. On paper, good offset.

Or, and hear me out, everyone else has been bidding too little.

Keep in mind the Triumphant Insult % to stun proc is a 2PPM for a 3 second mag 1 stun. In and of itself, that's pretty useless. However, if you are running other stun (I'm thinking particularly Oppressive Gloom from Dark Armor), you can stack mag. Even so, that's pretty useless.

I spend most of my time on scrappers, and it’s fair to say that by the time I hit 50, every one of them is able to handle +4/x8 content. However, some are much faster than others. I think the original devs thought process was to work in trade offs. Sets that add additional survivability or control effects are offset with lower damage. The problem though is that in team play outside of Hard mode stuff survivability is trivial enough that people want to just focus on damage.

That was my initial thought as well

I'd consider scrapper my primary AT, and I've seen a lot of venom over the years for "runners". To be honest, I never really noticed it, and maybe that's because I don't do speed runs or I mostly solo or maybe I just have a pretty good tolerance for it. The best advice I can give, other than what has already been stated, is defeat them faster. At some point, almost all of my scrappers (especially the AoE ones) have a build with Experimentation and use Corrosive Vial which can inflict some nice -res via procs. In addition, knockdown is your buddy.

This is exactly like an advice column.

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This can be useful for defense powers that depend on recharge. That said, it is not often used in builds.

Fair points, and our opinions are going to vary based on our own personal experience. I have never sold converters under 70k, but then again, I haven't tried to sell any recently. I have also noted that where I can buy them in bulk nowadays is significantly below 66k, although higher than it was a year ago. Honestly, I choose 66,666 as a price point because historically I think I would have been able to both buy and sell there through most of my HC experience. That said, there seems to be a small number of heavy users involved in the market (over 100k bids and offers) that pop up seemingly overnight, so I suspect these are bids and offers from a relatively small number of users (like one or two) rather than hundreds of thousands of players getting more involved. So maybe there are 100,000 offered at 60k, in which case you won't sell any above that level until people buy those listed. but since you earlier stated you sold *some* at your price, then I'd suggest being patient.

I also want to make a comment specifically on this. The conv to inf trade is very efficient: it's a deep market and you can generally make sales quickly. I think what you are saying is that it isn't as profitable as it used to be, which really depends on your time frame. If you want to liquidate 100 merits a day, you can probably squeeze out a little more return from either different or a diversified set of methods. If you want to liquidate 2000 merits a day? I'd focus on converters because you can absolutely sell 6000 of those in a day at good prices.

I don't see offhand how to turn this into an exploit. It would be useful for established players, and it would serve as an influence/enhancement sink. I'm ok with adding more than the base 3 slots.

Let me try to be a little more helpful without making it too easy. 100 merits will buy you: -- 300 enhancement converters. Where do you think you can sell them in bulk? I'm going to somewhat arbitrarily pick 66,666 inf and round which gets us to a sales price of 20mm and a net income of 18mm after the /AH fees. This is a pretty decent standard I would think, and you can probably liquidate thousands of merits at this level in pretty short order (although not instantly). -- 200 enhancement unslotters. This feels like a much less liquid market for a lot of reasons. In order to match converters you would need to be able to sell in bulk at 100k. -- 20 enhancement boosters. Breakeven here is selling at 1mm per booster. -- 5 enhancement catalysts. Breakeven is selling at 4mm per catalyst, which will not happen since catalysts are also generated as drops for lvl 50s. -- 1 ATO. Breakeven would be selling ATOs at 20mm which seems unlikely since again there are cheaper ways to get ATOs. -- 1 Winter O. Breakeven is also at selling WO at 20mm which is certainly plausible. -- 1 purple recipe. Breakeven would be selling this at 20mm, which is unlikely. As you note, crafting will add roughly 2mm to your cost basis but will get you closer to your bogey. -- 1 PVP recipe. Select it at level 10 and it's cheapest to craft, but you won't get anything near to 20mm for it. -- 1 rare recipe. I don't expect you can sell one rare recipe or even one rare crafted IO for 20mm. -- 5 uncommon recipes. Can you sell 5 uncommon recipes for 4mm apiece? I don't think so. Can you take 5 uncommon recipes and craft and convert to sell at something better than 20mm net? Yes, but it will take knowledge, a bit of luck, and probably cannot do enough better to soundly outperform converters.

Since Savage has a built in endurance discount, I find it matches well with endurance heavy secondaries. Battle Axe goes with anything.

1. IIRC when Instant Healing was a toggle on Live, it was considered extremely overpowered and once you learned to get along with the endurance drain you were invincible. So they changed it and people literally lost their shit over it. 2. Regen is a very reactionary (and proactive) defense set, so yes you need to pay attention and click a lot more than most other sets. 3. Different power sets that play differently. Willpower is a very newby friendly, set and forget defensive set. Regen is very proactive and has a much higher ceiling in the hands of a skilled player, IMO. 4. Revive is the most skippable (I don't think I've ever taken it). Quick Recovery is skippable, as is Fast Healing if you are a good builder. I'd have a hard time skipping Moment of Glory. 5. Since it is a click-happy defense set, I'd avoid offensive sets that are really slow in activation, like Radiation Melee. Sets that add alternate mitigation (like Staff Melee, or Dark Melee, or even Kinetic Melee) are useful.

Welcome to the jungle! We've got fun and games! Personally, I spend my merits on converters and use them, but I've got somewhere in the range of 30-50k merits lying around and I *still* buy converters on the market because I think they are cheap. If I needed to liquidate my merits and get top dollar for them, I would not convert them to converters and list them at 1 inf.

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First of all, you can only attune directly with a catalyst if it is slotted. Which can be a buzzkill but it's minor. Secondly, your brute CAN slot level 10 PvPs, and then attune them with a catalyst. But they cannot do that with a level 50 PvP IO because they can't slot it. Third, using the /AH to purchase IOs as attuned is generally the most efficient way. If I were in your shoes, as it seems to me, I would sell the lvl 50 PvPs you have and buy some attuned PvP Ios of the same type. You can, in fact, sell them to yourself using two different characters, but that's a whole different kettle of octopodes.