Lyrium

Just to double check - where you blue or red alignment? Probably, if you are Villain or Rogue, you won't get the option

So, what a trip! I honestly didn't know what to expect, as I mentioned, I did stop playing CoH for some months before returning, and jumped into this almost straight away. I was expecting to end with 100mil+, but I'm not that far away. And I bought all the teleporters! Some things to keep in mind, either for myself, or for whoever may read this in hopes of learning anything. - It's much easier if you start with some money (obviously!). All my chars start with 100 million, which is usually enough to bid on all ATOs and get a Panacea. Sometimes they may get a Hero Merit or two, depending on what I have laying around, so I'm not that merit starved a the beginning. I tend to abandon characters once they are level 50, sometimes with tons of things in the AH, converters, merits... - This character leveled faster than usual. The mapserver event gave a lot of XP very quick, but nothing else. If you take more time while leveling, you will sell more things. Leveling several characters at the same time will net you much more money - Try to craft as much as possible before the weekend! The weekend has been awesome for sales - If you have money to spare (check again the part of starting with money), put low bids on the most expensive enhancements. Purples, ATOs, Uniques... The more time your low bid is there, more chances to get a bargain and save some money (try to be realistic, anyway). - In tandem with the above, avoid Buy-it-nao prices. Give your bids at least 24h to fill, if you can - The wiki has info about all recipes. You can check there what recipes are better to buy. For example, some recipes at certain levels guarantee an uncommon->rare conversion - The more time you invest in the market, the more efficient you will be. I'm quite lazy and usually spend very little time on the market, but you can surf this thread and learn other tactics and tricks from more experienced people And some absurd maths: - Crafted & converted 288 enhancements - Let's say I spent around 10 converters per enhancement (2 to convert to rare, 8 to get something worthwile)... AT MOST. I'm quite sure I spent less! - That means 2880 converters, which means 960 Reward Merits - 960 Reward Merits gave me a full build and almost 100million extra

Day 13 - Finish! Finally, everything is done. Updating on yesterday, it was not my day. First I joined a Doctor Q, forgetting that today I had to wake up very early. Well, I'll be a bit sleepy todaym, no harm done. The good part is that this got me 244 merits and the last 2 levels and a half! As I said before, after that I went to craft the last 40 recipes I had in the bought tab. Then, the facepalm moment began. Remember how I got an attuned Ragnarok and mentioned I will sell it and get a non-attuned one? Well, that's what I wanted to do, since I had money to spare. And went an bought another Attuned enhancement 🤦‍♂️yay me! I didn't have money for a third Ragnarok, so I had to put both for sale. Thankfully today they sold and I bought the correct one. The last purple for Time Wall was also purchased, so time for respec! Or actualy, not a respec, I will just use some unslotters (which I'm getting with merits, although merits are better used for converting) The attuned Ragnarok is the proc, ATOs are superior now. I attuned the Perf. Shifter proc. I'm not boosting Time Wall. Damn my muscle memory, another attuned purple there Rest of powers One Artillery set (the one in Ice Storm) went to the AH to make room for the Ragnarok and Ice Mistral proc. It quickly sold while I was bussy boosting/upgrading. Current AH status: After collecting sales: And extra stuff (I bought 5 extra boosters... turns out maths are hard and I only needed 50) I will do another post with some final thoughts, things to do better, etc, but this is the end of the journey for Rime Lyrium! Final influence: 88,078,457 Enhancements pending to be sold: 46 25 Converters left 191 reward merits left

Day 12 Super quick update, as it's late and tomorrow I need to wake un in less than 6 hours 😭 Did a Doctor Q. Got 244 merits. Got to 50. Crafted & listed 40 more recipes (everything I had pending), making this a total of 288 recipes crafted That's all. Tomorrow I'll do the final respec and show the final result. If I have time >__>

Day 12 Sales! All boosters bought! Only this one missing So I bought the last QOL teleport I was missing Currently at 23 million

As of now, unless I missed something when counting or I forgot to report something: Day 1 0 Day 2 2+8 Day 3 10 Day 4 11 Day 5 10+10+2 Day 6 20+12+20 Day 7 20+20 Day 8 20+20 Day 9 10+21+10 Day 10 20 Day 11 20 Totaling 246 enhancements crafted and converted (well, one was NOT converted, just crafted and listed 😛 ) I was expecting the number to be bigger

Somehow I missed this comment, sorry! While this is very true, I'm trying to show a way to build a character while staying AWAY from AE 😛 Nothing wrong with AE, is just not my cup of tea

Day 12 Quick break during lunchtime to check the AH Nothing bought Since I'm very impatient.... let's redo that Still some money left!

Day 11, again Well, yesterday I had my usual post with all the details, and looks like I forgot to hit "Submit" before closing the computer, so everything is lost. I will provide all the info again, but sadly, with less pics of the processes I joined a mapserver event that triggered in Skyway. I didn't have a clue what that was about, but soon I got an invite to a league and the XP started pouring. In a very short time, I got to level 47!! After that, I decided to speed through Tyna's arc, stealthing whenever possible. Since I overleveled it, I increased the difficulty to +3, to keep the same relative levels. After Tyna, I started with Maria Jenkins, killing Infernal and Chimera. The next mission was te beginning of her SA, but I stopped there. After leveling, I got: - Future Pain (melee attack), which got 5 slots, and a full Mako's Bite set - Chronos (build Up), which got... nothing - 1 slot in Weave, which is now completed Stuff coming with the last 3 levels - Aim (because I have to pick something) - 2 slots in Stealth (I didn't realize these were missing) - 4 slots in Time Wall, for the purple immob set I emptied my bags and crafted 20 more enhancements, and 4 of them instal-sold. With that money, I put a bid on the boosters aI was missing, and raised the bid on all of them. Since I have some extra money, I bought ATT, Mission Teleporter, and Base Teleporter. Current bids. tonight I will probably raise them in order to really finish Status:

Great question! Around 250? Maybe a bit more. The good thing is that I took note of everything I crafted in this thread, tomorrow I'll review it and post exact numbers.

Day 11 Sales! Purchases! 4/5 Grav. Anchors bought I put a bid for 50/55 boosters. I also raised a bit the bid Current inf:

I'm not worried about it. The sooner the merrier, but if I need to wait some levels, so be it. Fire/Dark is what sounds better on my head, but I'm not sure how useful it would be for hard content instead of Rad/Fire (or Fire/Rad)

My altitis is striking back, and as soon as I finish my Ice/Time blaster I'm rolling a new character! I have decided on Fire Blast. I need to choose between Dark Miasma or Radiation Emission. And I need to choose between Defender or Corruptor. Ideas, suggestions, should I just coin toss, level the 4 of them...? Thanks!

Happens to me 100% of the time, too!

Day 10 A bit more to end the day. I unlocked Cimerora and then started Tina Macyntire arc. I leveled to 43 and got more slots. Tough completed, one more slots missing in Weave For reference, I'm soloing at +1/x4 with bosses. I can probably increase the difficulty, but right now I'm at the spot where I can quickly kill spawns without really having to worry for my life, so the XP comes at a good rate. I got some sales in the meantime: Which got me some influence (enough to bid on another stack of boosters) Also, all catalysts filled I'm bidding on 20 boosters, need 35 more: Current status at the end of Day 10 - All enhancements bought except for... - 4 Gravitational Anchor missing, but bids are placed - All catalysts bought - Bidding on 20/55 boosters - Selling 43 enhancements - 3 converters - 25 reward merits - Level 43 - 4,686,835 inf At this point I could just consider the challenge finished, but let's see how it ends. I still want to buy all mission/base/team transporters, maybe the crafting table, and I want to rebuy the two attuned Ragnarok as non-attuned

Day 10 I logged in and even before I could take the first screenshot, I saw a Moonfire forming and I joined it! TFs are my favorite way to level ^_^ This got me to level 42 which means 3 more slots No yes! Time to see the AH! Awesomeness Sweet! Ragnarok set is completed Let's get the last Purple set: Let's finish with this: That's all the IOs done! (or waiting for a bid to be filled) Let me repeat that THAT'S ALL THE IO's DONE! I still have some influence left Now I need: - 55 Boosters --- 5x Flight in Swift --- 5x Jump in Hurdle --- 10x Recharge in Hasten --- 5x Recharge in Aim --- 5x Recharge in Chronos --- 20x All in Ragnarok (except proc) --- No boosters for Grav. Anchor in Time Wall. It's a mule - 12 Catalysts --- 6x each Blaster ATO set Which is basically this: I could just get them with Converters, but is not cost-effective. But if you are tired of crafting, for sure this is a very good option From the level up, I put two slots in Charged Armor: And the other one in Tough for the HP unique I have some merits (55) and converters (50), and 60 recipes, but no salvage to craft them. I got lucky and got salvages to craft 20 of them instantly, so let's do that Insta-sales That got me some money, so... Current status: Level 42

These are two things I was NOT aware of. I'll try them at some point!

Day 9 My playtime today had some RL interruptions but it was a good day. The missus didn't want to play boardgames together (it's our hobby), so I had time for gaming. I managed to kill Kraken, do Tarikos SF, finish Levantera and do Syster Psyche TF Sales No new purchases I got to level 41, so I put some more slots and powers. Ice Blast set is now complete until level 50. I added some slots to Hover Some slots to Weave and used the one in Charged Armor New power (mule) Crafting and listing 21 enhancements (I'm clearing some stacks that were half-filled, but too slow). Three immediate sales Since I still have a lot of merits, I'm gonna do 10 more. Emptied trays/bags, and placed another bid for a Ragnarok. That means I have bought 3 out of 5 Ragnaroks, and I'm bidding for the other 2. Almost there! Level 41, I'm missing money for 5 more purples, and then catalysts/boosters. It's taking me more time than I thought, my initial idea was having everything by now. I'm playing more than I expected so I may be leveling too fast. Anyway, by level 45 everything should be done Current Status - 70 Enhancements for sale - 7 Purple enhancements missing (bidding for 2 of them) - Level 41 - 7,199,901 Inf I'll be out during Easter (in Spain. Thursday and Friday are Bank Holiday) See you on Sunday!

Day 9 As always, first the sales and purchases (spoiler: I didn't buy anything new) I upgraded the Ragnarok bid Let's see if Levantera still wants to talk with me!

Day 9 Super quick session. I did Palading site for Knight Errand badge, and crafted & listed 10 more enhancements One sold Let's try to be lucky I haven't been this poor since character creation

Day 9 First of all, big thanks to Yomo for reminding me that I don't need attuned purples. Non-attuned are better because I can boost them. Now, on to bussiness: Purchases. Remmeber that I already have all the non-purple IOs bought. If I can, I will change those Ragnarok for non-attuned versions. But first, I'll buy the rest I can bid on one new purple. Instabought That's all for now

Because I completely forgot Purples work when exemplared. I haven't played in several months and wemhen I came back, I jumped straight to this challenge. Thanks a lot for pointing that out! I'll check it in game as soon as I can

Day 8 I started Levantera's SA to unlock Vanguard tickets, but before I finished the first mission I joined a team running the last mission to unlock Patron Power Pools so I joined that. Afterwards I killed Kronos Titan and then I ran a Manticore. Sorry Levantera, maybe tomorrow. All of this meant some Reward Merits, some Badges, and a lot of XP. I'm level 38 now, approaching the final stage. The main powers are all slotted, and I only need to improve defensive powers now. Let's see the build - One slot missing in Frost Breath, and Ice Blasting will be done until I can slot Purples - On the other hand, Temporal Manipulation is... lacking About pools: - Sprint has Celerity: Stealth - Health and Stamina are slotted - Hasten has 2 level 30 IOs, good enough until 47 - Hover is missing a pair Red Fortune - Same as Stealth - Tough is missing 3x Unbreakable Guard (one being the +HP Unique) - Weave missing 2x Red Fortune, 2x Reactive Defenses (1 being the Scaling Resist Unique) - Charged Armor is missing 3x Unbreakable Guard More good news: All enhancements except Purples are now bought. Well, to be exact, I'm still missing a level 50 Flight IO and a level 50 Jumping IO, for Swift & Hurdle. But I got 4x level 50 Recharge IOs. Everything else is waiting to be slotted Also, something I like to do when I'm close to finish a build. I have a put a 1inf bid on everything I'm missing (except for the crafted IOs). This will help me avoid having to check the build every time I open the /ah (yes, my memory is bad). Whoah, I'm missing a Ragnarok, I'll fix that afterwards Now, guess what? Exactly! Time to craft, convert, and list. 20 recipes More stuff for sale And more stuff sold (the Basilisk was a missclick, I forgot a zero and listed it for 100k instead of 1mill) I have 32millions now, that means I can start putting bids on purples Current Status - Level 38 - 847,508 inf

Day 8 Pre-dinner check Everything has been bought as of now I'm going to review the build and see if I can get everything missing except purples. I'll end up buying things I don't need, mark my words! Bids: Bought Only purples missing! (and some catalyst, I want everything upgraded at the moment I hit 50). And boosters for the level 50 Recharge IOs