Lyrium

Day 8 Salamanca has been saved! I finished the last Croatoa SA, and killed Seed of Hamidon. Also, I got a nice drop that I'm gonna craft and sell: Additionally, I got my last ATO! No pic sorry, I was so excited that I forgot. All ATOs slotted now! Back to do some crafting. Another 20 enhancements Once again, I run out of money while posting. Luckily something already sold It happened again so I'm going to cancel the bid for Scaling Damage Resist When I finished listing I got the rare salvage I was missing to craft the Panacea, so I also crafted and listed it. After that, I will empty my bags, collect sales, refresh double XP I could place back the bid for Reactive Defenses Current Status: Level 35

Day 8 I have some free time in the morning, so let's do some heroic deeds! Tasty sales And tasty purchases! (and notice the jump in money for the sales) After a Respec, the build looks much better No changes in the rest of slots/powers I put some bids for another Artillery set (Frost Breath will need it soon) and instafilled Let's bid for some more enhancements, for the future Instabought And poor again, but I have something of a defense now!

Also, I reviewed the build (because I noticed I was missing one LotG +7.5%) This is how it looks now (I didn't make it cheaper, don't worry, the challenge is still valid 🙂 ) EDIT: And I'm gonna swap the slotting for the two cones (Frost Breath and Static Discharge). SD looks wider... it's probably more usable

Day 7 Kelly Nemmers Story Arc (Croatoa III) done. Posi 2 done (and it's the WST!). Level 34 achieved, 16 more to go! Two powers completely unslotted... I need those Blaster ATOs... Crafting, converting and listing 20 more recipes, brb. All listed! And sales: Current build status: I'm feeling the pain of those two empty attacks. I need to fix that. I'm going to cancel all my current enhancement bids (yay!) Let's spend it! Already working I was trying to get those ATOs cheaper, but I really need them. In the end, bidding what I need is my usual way of doing things. I try to get the maximum benefit with the smallest time devoted to crafting/converting/ah. That means I'm not as money-efficient as I could be, but is good enough to make enough money for builds and more. And I promise is very time efficient. At the beginning it takes more time if you don't know the AH, what sells, what not. But I can craft, convert, and list 20 enhancements in 10minutes. I'm not a marketeer, I'm just someone who crafts for 10mins to avoid hours of farming 😛 As far as Unique enhancements, I still need some stuff (2x LotG, 1x Shield Wall, 1x Scaling Resist, 1x Max HP) These, and slotting defenses, are my next priority. Then it will only be Purples and Catalysts. Since Weave is also empty, one more bid: To end the day, I have to empty bags/trays, and bid on some more recipes. Current Status - Level 34 - 3,635,222 influence (one of those "selling" is not an enhancement, is a recipe)

Day 7 More sales! Nothing else to show for now, let's get some more XP and merits!

Day 7 Bit by bit, in small chunks of time, I did Croatoa's second Story Arc (or rather, I failed at the "Prevent 30 creatures from going through the portal". How do you win that one?) I'm crafting and converting 20 more enhancements Some stuff is selling, and that's good, because I ran out of money for listing: And more things sold 42 enhancements for sale, 42 recipes pending to be crafted and listed, 15 merits left, 44 converters left, level 31. Biding on 10 ATOs, and some other things. More news at night (EU time 😛)!

Day 7 A quick lunch break check Got an ATO! Converted and listed: I'm going to be out for a few days, so I'm going to try some low bids on Blaster ATOs. I canceled all Kheldian bids and bid on most Blaster ATO (9/12, I don't have enough money for more... yet) Current bids: Current inf:

Day 6 I did Croatoa's first SA (Gordon Bower), killed Lusca, killed Eochai and Jack. A good bunch of XP and merits. I went to craft and convert another 10 enhancements, but since I have a lot of merits, I did 20 instead. My current bids I got to level 30! That means some slots and two more powers. I got evasive maneuvers at 28, for another LotG mule, and Time Lord at 30 (which got the other 3% defense unique) I need to think what I want to do with those slots... get another Thunderstrike set? Try to get a full blaster ATO set? I'll decide it tomorrow End of day 6 42 enhancements for sale 50 millions in bids for Shield Wall recipe, 2x LotG, 6x Kheldian ATO, 1x Blaster ATO (one can dream) 59 recipes waiting to be retrieved and crafted 1x Preventive Medicine: Heal waiting to be slotted Level 30 545,743 inf

Day 6 That's all for now. Time to rack some XP

So, if I understand you correctly, you say that buying superpacks will be roughly equal to buying the ATOs I need, and I will get some other stuff along the way. It pains me to expend 10 million in a gamble (in this character, I mean), but I'll think about it I may log in with another character and buy 10 packs and see what happens 🤔

Day 6 Although I had a lot pauses and interruptions IRL, it has been a good morning. I did Roy Cooling Story Arc, Yin TF, and killed Adamastor. That's a good bunch of merits I crafted 12 enhancements (got two uncommon recipes, cheap to craft), got the 2 kheldian ATOs, and started converting The ATOs turned into Corruptor and Tanker, which should net me 2 extra millions at least. Sadly I didn't get Blaster ones. The store keeps growing! Things that sell And level 27! This is a nice milestone, all enhancements (except purples) are available now. Time for Respec 😉 After Respec, I bought Reveal, because why not. Then I got into a shopping buy it now spree (and remember, if you want to be efficient, don't pay buy it now prices), and bought two sets of Thunderstrike (1mill each piece) and 2 sets of Artillery (700k each piece) Unused IOs are back to the /ah for 1inf (again, not efficient) Current Build: In bags: - 1x LotG Recharge - 1x Preventive Medicine: Heal Time to empty bags, place some bids (salvages and enhancements) This is what I'm currently bidding on: Current status after respec: Awesome jump in Ranged defense! (without stealth) I'm going to change my settings to +0x3, with Bosses, and see how it goes Oops! I forgot about Hasten! Let's get two more IOs (50k each) Current Status - Level 27 - 2,405,668 inf Current plan Slot the rest of ranged attacks (with Thunderstrike/Artillery until I get ATOs), then work on ranged defenses, then other powers, then Purples, and finally, some catalyst. All of this before level 50

Day 6 Gotta love Sunday morning, after everyone has been playing during Friday & Saturday Instant 25million And some useful stuff in the bought tab... I'm going to refresh those ATOs bids, and work on getting merits!

I think I've never bought a superpack. I'll think about this, after all, this is the perfect place to make those experiments Thanks!

Day 6 Today is going to be quick. I have the entire day occupied IRL, so I will log in quickly to check the status and leave Yay money! Yay things bought Let's craft, convert, and list 20 enhancements I ran out of converters, so I only listed 15 enhancements. 2 sold I placed bids for 10 more salvages, at some point I will get more merits! I canceled my bids for the Kheldian ATOs and put new ones, for a bit more money. I also put a bid for Numina's unique Final Status:

Day 5 I did Agent Watkins Story Arc. I collected some debt. Those Vahzilok spawns are not easy as a lone Blaster, I promise. The good thing is that Endurance is infinite now! Even with Sprint and Stealth active The good thing is that I got 40 merits so now I can do some work! But first, let's do some crafting, as I was lucky with the drops Also, something sold while I was dying... I mean, blasting baddies away The store keeps growing: And things keep being sold: Let's bid on some more things. I leveled to 23 so I have more slots (I got Boxing at 22 so no new powers). One more slot in Hasten and Fly. Why Fly? Because with a mere slot, I can get the Zephyr ranged defense bonus. Now that endurance is not a problem, let's start building some defenses. I was trying to lowbid (last 5 sales were 2mill) but... Looking at the build and at was is coming, I placed another bid for Lotg Recharge (and filled immediately at 4mill... how cheap are these things now?) and for a Steadfast Unique. As always, all the crap goes to the /ah or vendor. I placed bids for salvages for 20 enhancements (I have merits now!) and that's all. End of Day 5 - Current Status - 21 enhancements for sale - Biding on some not-so-cheap stuff - A LotG recharge waiting to be slotted - Level 23 - 591,556 influence (back to being poor!) Changes in the build

Day 5 Sales, sales, tasty sales And nice goodies bought! This means crafting 10 enhancements This is looking MUCH better Next two slots will be for Temporal Healing, so I can place the other end proc and Preventive Medicine: Heal. After that... we'll see Current influence after getting the money from my sales, crafting, and bidding on more recipes: Let's try to move that money: I may be able to get some cheap ATOs and convert them into something more sellable, or Blaster ATO Time to get some XP and Merits!

Small update and big shoutout thanks to Ukase for the suggestion! I did a quick test, which can be seen here Basically: - I bought a Perf. Shifter: Recharge/Accuracy for 1million (buy it now at first try, probably you can get it cheaper) - I bought 9 converters (because it's the biggest multiple of 3 you can buy in one go) at 65k each (again, buy it now price), totalling 585k - Converted twice the Shifter and got my End proc (granted, I was lucky to get it in two tries) - Got back the 3 millions I had in my bid for the proc. Basically I saved a million and a half buying another enhancement and converting it until I got what I needed. Yes, as I said, I was lucky getting it with only two tries, but I also used buy it now prices for the shake of the experiment). As a bonus, I got 3 extra converters (bought 9, used 6) This is to show a different way of doing things! This is not my style usually, although I will try to use this trick more. Converters are such a wonderful thing, they should be banned 😛

Day 5 I did The Hollows and Perez Park, so that's 10 more reward merits. Let's do some conversions and list them Immediate sales Some stuff I bought (including a Stealth that I bought instantly) This is what changed: Tonight I'll see if the endurance issues are gone, I'll review the build and I'll check if I can place some lowball bids for the future Also, as always. I placed bids for salvages to craft another batch Current inf: 12,781,032

Day 5 I managed to squeeze a little time today during lunch. Something sold! And something has been bought! Build updated With the money from the sales I placed another bid on LotG recharge (I will be able to use it very soon), and increased the bids on the crafted IOs. I also increased the bid on the Shifter enhancement and recipe, I want my endurance issues away. The recipe filled instantly for just 200k, so I placed bids for the salvages. I don't have time for a lot of playing but I will do a couple of exploration badges for merits. And I also crafted 10 more enhancements to convert later Current inf: 10,923,733. I should put this money to work soon

Day 4 So, I managed to secure a Posi 1 team. That got me a lot in terms in XP (I'm level 20 now) but very little in term of reward merits. I guess I'll need to do more exploration. Or not. We'll see. But now I really need to start slotting things. I also did the crafting introduction because I enjoy it. Yes, I'm weird. I converted those 10 enhancements I had in bags and listed them Two sold instantly (my bad, I took no photo of that, sorry) I'm now bidding in some basic IOs And bought some others In the end I got the Panacea enhancement so I'll cancel the recipe bid. Current status after grabbing everything: Finally, I sold all my crap (SOs, recipes, salvages), and placed some bids (for salvage to do another batch of crafting, and for more recipes). This is how it looks now My purchasing priority will be: - Endurance/Health - Slot attacks with some basic IOs until I can slot level 30 sets. I will get Artillery and Thunderstrike until I can afford ATOs, and get to 50 for purples - Recharge (Lotg 7'5%) - Other uniques - Defense sets/Whatever Actually I have enough money to start looking at some Lotg for Stealth and Hover. I'll bid on one for the moment End of Day 4 Final status - 14 enhancements for sale (and 1 recipe... lol ) - Bidding for a bunch of recipes (around 100), some basic IOs (accuracy/end reduction), and a couple of other attuned enhancement (preventive medicine, Lotg). I'm bidding for one Perf.Shifter enhancement and one recipe, as I will be needing both. Let's see what I get - Level 20 - Influence: 3,686,539

Day 4 Some stuff sold (and the salvages/recipes from yesterday, I forgot to grab the inf from the sales) After collecting everything, let's see the Bought tab... The salvages I needed, and a couple of enhancements. Lucky me! I cannot use them yet 😞 I didn't get the Panacea nor the Performance Shifter proc, so I'll try getting the recipes as Ukase suggested This is the current status of my bids I crafted 11 enhancements, but I cannot convert them yet. But I don't need to convert the Reactive armor! Listed So currently I have 6 enhancements for sale, 10 enhancements waiting to be converted, 2 enhancements bought and 2 other waiting to be bought/crafted I'm trying to find time for some TFs but lately I've been waking up early, so I cannot play a lot during the night. I guess I will solo more than I expected. I'm open for contacts/SA suggestions! 🙂

Is not about laziness, is just...that I didn't know that it may be cheaper crafting them 🙂 I will have a look at this later for sure! (At some point I will attune them because having the entire build except purples attuned, and those missing will irk me for sure, but that can wait until 50) Thanks Ukase!

Day 3 After clearing Eagle Eye's Story Arc, I did some exploration badges: Kings Row, Atlas Echo and Galaxy Echo (you can get to those from Ouroboros, which I got a portal in Atlas) Something funny happened in Atlas, while I was asking for an Ouro portal, someone wanted to give me some millions. Thanks Captain Canada! But I need to refuse, otherwise this wouldn't be a real challenge 😛 Armed with 20something more Reward merits, I went to do some more converting. Remember I still have 10 crafted enhancements! Before that, I placed some bids for more salvages for the near future, and to craft a nice level 15 Reactive Armor recipe I got as a drop. Stuff selling: Things sold immediately Current bids (mostly the very lowball bids for level 20 recipes, which I may cancel or increase, and some key enhancements that hopefully will fill soon - although the Panacea may be too low) And finally, same as yesterday, I emptied my "bags". Enhancements to the vendor, salvages/recipes to the /ah for 1inf Oh, and I also renewed the 2x XP buff (I already consumed three charges, a lot of time used in the forums 😛 ) End of day 3 - Level 12 (almost 13) - 5,240,756 inf Next day I'll try to do a Posi 1, 1+2 if I have enough time. I want to fill those empty slots with basic crafted IOs at 17, so probably tomorrow will place some bids for those, too EDIT: As you can see, this time I'm not showing all the converting process in detail. How to do it is explained a few posts above, I'm not going to repeat it every time. With me, it's always the same. Buy uncommon recipes, craft, convert to rares. I know other people use more methods (flipping, converting ATOs, etc), but I'm a one trick pony 🙂 Also, the point is not showing how to become ebil. I just want to show how to fund your builds with very little effort (seriously, the time invested is minimal. You don't even have to do the exploration badges, I'm sure everyone has dozens or hundreds of converters lying around)

Day 3 Everything sold! And I bought a few things So I crafted 10 more enhancements... that will stay in my tray until I get more merits And lastly, let's try to fill some slots in my build After all of this, current inf: Nothing to sell, time to get merits. Eagle Eye needs some help, let's be heroic!

I will for sure! At this moment, the only enhancements I have are the START ones, but I will make sure to post pics of the build as fill those slots, with whatever enhacement I use EDIT: Actually, one image is better than one thousand words. I can't play now, but I can log in for this