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opening cards... meh, just too many clicks for me.

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1 hour ago, Troo said:

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opening cards... meh, just too many clicks for me.

I've been going the 6 mill under cut one these, soon they will drop to 5 with more entering the market. Everything seems to be dropping in price, converters, boosters, rare salvage, etc.

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10 hours ago, Troo said:

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opening cards... meh, just too many clicks for me.

 

9 hours ago, Glacier Peak said:

I've been going the 6 mill under cut one these, soon they will drop to 5 with more entering the market. Everything seems to be dropping in price, converters, boosters, rare salvage, etc.

I set my noob traps before the event and adjusted bids thereafter.  I figure I've created about a thousand synthetic Winter Packs by now.  I can't wait until the event ends, then it's full on Market PvP!

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17 minutes ago, Sakai said:

Synthetic Winter Packs?  What might those be?

 

Oh...you are buying things cheaply that you get in the packs. 

Exactly.  I figure that an "ideal" winter pack would be 1.2 WOs and 50 converters.  Avoid that whole "Build Snow Beast" nonsense.

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Even though Avalanche has the coveted 5 percent melee defense in a paboe set, it's the most common of the IO drops. Might be a good set to low bid on even if you don't need them as conversion bait later.

Thanks for D-Sync Enhancements! Just wish things like Resist/End, Heal/End and Damage/Mez had a third stat that made them more viable. Suggestions - add Recharge to Ribosomes, Range to Golgis, and Slows to Peroxisomes. These changes would allow for an endurance cost/range, recharge/endurance, and slow/mez or slow/damage enhancements.

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9 hours ago, Greycat said:

Listed on the wiki.  

Click the set you're interested in.

Thanks for the link. I noticed some of the probabilities were outdated so I posted the correct numbers here (2nd post): 


I also went ahead and posted the breakdown of each item you can collect, along with their count (which was missing from the HC Wiki link).

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1 hour ago, Bopper said:

Thanks for the link. I noticed some of the probabilities were outdated so I posted the correct numbers here (2nd post): 

I added the two tables from the second post in your link to the Super Pack HC wiki page, along with references to the origin of the info. I'll drop a note in the wiki club about the other tables, as those will require a bit more time to incorporate.

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29 minutes ago, Yomo Kimyata said:

In theory, with this info from @Lunchmoney, someone* could put together a monte carlo simulator for fun and profit.

 

* not it.

That's fairly easy to program, but what exactly do you want to see? 


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7 minutes ago, Bopper said:

That's fairly easy to program, but what exactly do you want to see? 

I'd look for an expected value of a Winter Pack given certain sales prices for the components, e.g., WOs are worth X(set), merits are worth Y, etc.  Run a simulation 10,000 or so times and come up with an E(WP), then vary the assumptions for scenario analysis.  I could probably cobble something together relatively quickly in VBA (I'm not exactly an expert programmer), but it's perilously close to work-like activity, and I'm really only idly curious.  I highly doubt that I'm going to go all in on Winter Packs this year.

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12 minutes ago, Yomo Kimyata said:

I'd look for an expected value of a Winter Pack given certain sales prices for the components, e.g., WOs are worth X(set), merits are worth Y, etc.  Run a simulation 10,000 or so times and come up with an E(WP), then vary the assumptions for scenario analysis.  I could probably cobble something together relatively quickly in VBA (I'm not exactly an expert programmer), but it's perilously close to work-like activity, and I'm really only idly curious.  I highly doubt that I'm going to go all in on Winter Packs this year.

I provided a breakdown of average number of rewards per Super Pack (I'll copy it below). You could take those numbers and put in what the average value on the market is. 

 

  Average per Pack
Frosty Aegis 0.0441
Frost Bite 0.0441
Winter Ward 0.0441
Brain Storm Ideas 19.7125
Build Snow Beast 0.3256
Candy Canes 3.4716
Character Respec 0.0310
Enhancement Booster 0.2288
Enhancement Catalyst 0.1537
Enhancement Converter 0.7001
Enhancement Unslotter 0.7001
Winter IO 1.2079

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0.2699
Free Tailor Session 0.0667
Inspiration 0.9695
Reward Merits 9.7146
Windfall 0.0530
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@Yomo - this is what I did for the hero/rogue packs.   
As a key of sorts - you can see the first line is Unslotters. The number to the right is the number of unslotters I got in the 50 packs. The 100,000 $ you see is what a low post price might be on the AH based on what I saw in the AH when I was opening the packs. I don't normally sell any of those things - so no idea really what they usually go for. The 6,400,000 is obviously the expected return, not accounting for the AH fee. As you can see, being a Rogue barely paid in this situation. 

It would be simple to set up a similar table in Excel, I would think. (this was done about a month ago - before the winter sale, which is why the prices may not reflect current market conditions.)

 

  50 packs Hero     50 Packs Rogue
Unslotters 64 100,000  $       6,400,000 113 100,000  $    11,300,000
Catalysts 15 1600000  $    24,000,000 3 1600000  $       4,800,000
Boosters 9 1000000  $       9,000,000 17 1000000  $    17,000,000
ATOs 58 6500000  $  377,000,000 50 6500000  $  325,000,000
Merits 550 210000  $  115,500,000 450 210000  $    94,500,000
Experienced 11     11    $                        -
Converter 80 70000  $       5,600,000 60 70000  $       4,200,000
Brain Storm 1040 25000  $    26,000,000 1120 25000  $    28,000,000
Amplifier 7 2500000  $    17,500,000 9 2500000  $    22,500,000
       $  581,000,000      $  507,300,000
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10 hours ago, Yomo Kimyata said:

In theory, with this info from @Lunchmoney, someone* could put together a monte carlo simulator for fun and profit.

 

* not it.

What? Not sure why I'm being tagged here?

I used to play under the handle @Purple Clown, back on Live. Now I play under @Lunchmoney

 

I'm in the UK and play on Reunion.

 

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Well, I’m eating my earlier words. The biggest reason I haven’t used WOs in most of my builds is because of how expensive they are and the fact that they don’t give +rech bonuses. Since their price has tanked one of those hurdles is gone. So I decided to make a character that has two sets. 
 

Therefore I bought 16 packs. I don’t have all the data, but I do have the highlights. 
-25 merits total

-over 500 brainstorm ideas

-a lot of inspirations and temp powers

-20 Winter O’s

 

I am using 6 of the WOs and will sit on the other 14 until they start selling for 20m+ again.  So, in the end, it will be profitable. I’m tempted to buy more, but at the same time don’t feel like sitting on most of my potential wealth for 8 months because I make new toons and kit them out so often. Cant afford to not be liquid. 

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5 minutes ago, Incursion said:

I'm completely clueless as to what these packs are and how to get them. Back in game for 3 weeks now, have been grinding my tail off  buying all the IO's off the market.  Can someone clue me in?

They are listed under salvage:  special.  They are in theory tradeable, but are seeded with 10mm available at (currently) 10mm a pack.

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