Troyusrex

For a couple of years I was making thousands of trades a day. Even had a fair amount of automation going. But then the systems started to reject more and more transactions (with the note: "Please wait a moment."). At that point it stopped being worth it. My gig was buying packs, opening them en mass, converting the enhancements until I got saleable ones. Rinse and repeat. Quite profitable. 5% if I just dumped the cargo. 50%+ if I used converters and priced things not too aggressively. ABIG added bonus is that I ended up with a thousands of useful things like team inspirations and amplifiers. (Here's an experiment. Stock up on team damage/accuracy enhancements. Get on a team fighting AVs. See how well the team is doing. After awhile, use enough of those inspirations to max everyone's damage. I usually go with 4 larges. Then watch what happens. Struggling teams instantly turn into romping teams. Surprising numbers of players never understand what changed. Inspirations are vastly under appreciated) I got so tired of the increasing "wait a moment" notes that I stopped supplying lots of great things to the market for cheap prices.

I had the same issue with the last release. This helped and made it playable, although not 100% fixed.

I am so very, very guilty of this. I had things highly automated and would just buy, open, take from email, post to AH, rinse and repeat. Extremely profitable.

I should know this, but I don’t… is there an easy way to export a build without having to enter every last IO into mids?

I can’t speak to storm/water but my second favorite character is a storm/ice. Very tough, deals a lot of damage and mayhem. A real blast to play.

When Homecoming became known to me I rolled a Storm/Ice defender for nostalgic reasons. I choose to take three rain powers: Blizzard, Ice Storm and Freezing Rain. I LOVE this toon and those rain powers are a good part of why. I tried looking around, including at City of Data 2.0, to see if there might be a build that could fit even more rain powers, but wasn't able to find any. I figured I'd tap into the collective knowledge here. Any thoughts?

I have never participated in Hard Mode, but can't wait to!

a big +1 in this, even before adjusting for the size of their team and resources they have. They do a solid job with little money or support.

BP is so often between my camera and my toon I find it almost unplayable.

Polar Lights for my storm/ice defender

If you are talking active farmer, then fire/fire/fire blaster would be my choice.

The shame is on you. A REAL marketeer would have sensed opportunity AND helped herokind by going to all your alts, turning merits into boosters and selling them for 1.3 million. By providing liquidity you help everyone except the marketeer who made this scheme. If you do it right they get a large amount of inventory they have to sell at the prevailing rate or just eat.

At 50 I'm totally sold on Fire/time. Very tanky. On an ITF +4 I'd run around and aggro mobs to bring them to the group. Wasn't foolproof, once or twice I got busy and did not re-up farsight and faceplanted, but very, very solid. Looking forward to incarnate and a little relief from the endurance puddle. I'm fully IOed up, which helps, but it still need a bit.

At level 44 now. I'm enjoying the toon a lot. It's versatile and fairly powerful. Mez protection remains a serious pain. Any recommendations?

As an update, I’m now 28 or 29 and coming into my own. Not as Tanky as a tanker, but getting close. im looking forward to fire imps. I think they’ll increase my DPS significantly

I’ve done that!

Or the display bug…

Do you have some tips for this? I created a Fire/Time based on this post and so far I’m pretty underwhelmed. Granted, I’m only level 20, but I already have hot feet and Time’s juncture. While good, they hardly make me tank like. Guidance would be appreciated, up to an including how you see this working in Incarnate.

Or... he uses that mechanic to his advantage (I believe that in long ago past posts he explained how, but I don't remember off hand) and he's using this to admit there's something there, without going into detail or drawing too much attention to it.

50 Billion? For me it's 15 Billion. I realized a while ago that I am a satisfiser. That is to say, I'm usually not looking for the optimal solution, just a good enough one. I'm highly motivated to play the market and make money up until a point. I find repeatedly that at about 15 Billion my motivation wanes and I'd rather play the game. Then, when funds get a bit lower, I dive back in until funds are replenished. I just find that at 15 Billion I have more than enough to buy anything I want for as many alts as I want. I never lack. I've had a good bit more at times (and probably a huge amount more in inventory in bases that I never use). I certainly have the skills to make a lot more, but I'm quite happy being "Fairly Rich" and can't be bothered to get to "Very Rich" let alone "Uber Rich" or "Plaid". I'm not in the running to be the first to 1 Trillion, simply because having money beyond the amount to buy everything I need seems like a waste of my time. Of course, if you find it interesting or just like trying to get to a trillion, more power to you! It's just not my cup of tea.

A few of my characters make a lot of use of amplifiers. I especially like the status protection, but all 3 are useful. A year or two ago I did a brisk trade in packs. I opened thousands and made billions of Inf. But after I sold everything that could be sold I started making use of the free amplifiers and inspirations (available anywhere, anytime via email). I had hundreds of free amplifiers and grew a bit addicted to them. Fast forward to late 2021. I'm running low on amplifiers and decide I'll use the winter event to load up on Winter packs and amplifiers. But, I had completely forgotten that winter packs don't have amplifiers. So, since I've got more inf than I know what to do with, I decide I'll just go buy them from the P2W vendor. But I get there and find they are 2.5 million a piece! That's 60 million to fuel up on all 3 for 8 hours. This is pocket change, but it sticks in my craw.... so I liquidate my winter pack holdings (at considerable gain) and buy regular packs. Hundreds or thousands of them. Open them all and flood the market with Archetype IOs. All to just stock up on amplifiers. I suspect things like this happen every day and drive much of the market.

Plaid You missed the highest tier, so I added it for you.

You should all cancel your huge bid orders now. The lower price is just not going to happen. While it is true that in past years they've changed the price on days other than when the Winter Event goes live, that absolutely won't happen this year. So just cancel those bids and check again in a few months... 😉

Tell me more about this. I find O2 boost to be weak. Back on live, I really liked it for the end drain resistance and help with disorient, but I don't see as much of a need for that these days. That said, I could absolutely be missing something. P.S. Thanks for all the good recommendations! I'll try them out!

What I wonder is whether Winter Packs will be so overbought this year that they won't get back to 25M before winter event 2022 kicks in...