Yomo Kimyata

I'd like to reiterate this. I'm still not 100% of the process with attuned, so bear with me. The upshot is that there is an internal level that you cannot see beforehand, and that level reassigns on conversion. If you convert a lvl 15 Kismet +Acc by Defense a billion times, you will never ever get an LotG 7.5%, because LotG does not go down to lvl 15. But if you convert an attuned Kismet, you may get one on the very first try. But the odds are terrible. When I'm converting to make something, I always work off a level that minimizes the number of clicks I need to do. You can fish for Unbreakable Guards off lvl 30 Reactive Armors, but at that level you can get every Resist Damage IO in the book. There's better spots. I use almost exclusively attuned IOs in my builds, well, because I like the way they look. Playing rare roulette with attuned IOs is truly roulette, and you can end up with anything in the class! But the odds are terrible, so I only do it for experiments. What I do all the time though is buy cheap attuned IOs in the set I want and convert them into the attuned IOs I want if I think it's significantly cheaper and/or faster.

Well, yes and no, depending on supply and your timetable. If I need an attuned LotG 7.5% (or five) and they are currently selling at 8mm (as in you can expect to buy them there right away), that's one thing. Or I can put in a bid at, say, 7mm and hope I get filled in short order. Or I can buy one of the underappreciated ones in the set right now at 5mm, spend an average of 15 converters (worth 1mm), for a net cost of 6mm. Yes, you could roll that E/R a thousand times and not get what you are looking for, or you could roll it once. But on average (and in quantity, the averages work out pretty much as you would expect) you're better off, IMO. (Or I could do what I do and try to buy a bunch of underappreciated ones even lower, roll them all, keep what I need, sell the rest for a net profit. Buying at full retail prices is a sucker's game unless I know it's me selling on the other end.)

I was planning on making this one of the topics for my very last marketing guide. Yes, there are some very efficient paths, and there may be better paths that the ones I have mapped out. In your specific case (wanting any attuned BG), I would use level 10 Paralytic recipes, which are easy to come by and cheap to craft. Then one conversion by Hold (2 converter cost) will get you a rare, either a Neuronic Shutdown or a BG. The NS proc trades well, but any other rare from that set is probably best reconverted. I have one marketing character that does exactly this. Anyway, you now have a 50% chance of having an unattuned BG after one conversion, but you want an attuned one. You can either sell your unattuned on one character and buy at the same price as an attuned on another character and give up the 10% marketing vig. Or you can spring for a catalyst, which will be more expensive, but very much more convenient.

My useless, instant smart-ass answer is "use a large blue insp!" My slightly less useless, slightly less instant smart-ass answer is "use a large purple insp!" *Goes back to selling insps, waits to make a killing*

I was just asking someone what the emote was the ghouls did that I term, "I'm the greatest!" Will that be activated Tuesday?

I can find some good spots for all of them. Well, except maybe the End Mod ones.

I'm sorry, I didn't quite see that. There seems to be something caught in my monocle. *wipes away trillion inf bill* Ah, that's better. Hmm, hadn't considered that, thanks!

Ah yes, I was referring to WOs. Sorry to not explain the voices in my head who sometimes don't get expressed by my fingers.

I think that, like some people said, inspirations (especially purples) can be considered to be more powerful than either temps or incarnates. But it is truly no skin off my nose. I choose to use (or more generally not use) various powers or tools for my own inscrutable reasons. I do try to challenge myself, but for the most part it's irrelevant to me if your inscrutable decisions are different from mine. Heck, (and this may be blasphemy), I'd much rather try a pick up MoWhatever TF with a bunch of randoms and fail than plan out meticulously what the optimal path is and succeed in thirty seconds because we took every advantage we could find. I am a little concerned about the new difficulty levels. Not because they make things harder (which I'm all for!) but because our user base isn't as robust as it once was, and the "overdiversification" (my quotes) may make it more difficult to find teams to try things, particularly to try things you have never done before. My two inf.

The only thing that makes Winter Packs unique is that there is/was/has been a "sales" price. They are not fundamentally more or less useful on 3 January than they are on 4 January. As that goes away, do prices start to move higher? Then do people unpack or sell their packs to drive prices lower? There are all kinds of undergraduate economics theses that could be written about some pretty basic understandings of both traditional microeconomics and behavioral economics. I bought 2,000 packs. Hardly a huge number and hardly insignificant. I'll be honest, I'm mostly hoping someone tries to drive prices up on something so I can hit their unsustainable bids!

I *constantly* boo things like this, and so far my stepdaughter is the only one who gets the reference. She's awesome!

And NOW I have a new alt named "PG Gargleblaster".

Sorry, I already took it.

Merry new year!

Why not do both? I announce in LFG that the team is full, and I respond to anyone who sends me a tell as well. Seems like common courtesy?

I admit I assumed you wanted to farm from your comment directly above. And if you don't want to farm, great, I don't understand why you're so annoyed about it. Fight other enemies.

I'm truly sorry you are offended. One of the reasons I mentioned AE is so you (I think) can make custom enemies that don't resist the things that your character was specialized to do. Heck, make enemies that have -50% resistance to whatever damage type you use. That would seemingly solve your problem and wouldn't harm anyone else. Or, you can just choose not to fight the enemies that are too vexing for your play style. That would also seemingly solve your problem and wouldn't harm anyone else.

And increased beatings. Don't forget about the beatings.

As an experiment once, I ran a character that was only allowed to get converters by buying merits at 1mm per (making them effectively worth 333,333 each). After I made 1bn profit, I considered that proof of concept. Converters are truly magic, but I recognize that many many people would rather dump their merits than use them to make even more inf. I am very very thankful for those many many people.

How about when you stun Crey and they wander off stunned at about a million miles an hour? No, we're good. That's what they do. If you want to farm xp, make an xp farm in AE.

Nemesis!

Nemesis?

Boo! Boo!

Sure, I'll... (looks left at your stats) do no such thing, noob!

Counter proposal: cut Council and Freakshow xp in half.