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At the risk of chomping down on a wriggling lure . . . 

 

If the IO Sets you are looking for are too expensive, I recommend purchasing bulk of IO Sets which are cheap.  Hell, I saw some pieces of an Uncommon Stun Set going for 2 Inf last week!

Then, using Converters, roll 'em random.

With sufficiently large supplies, you can do as I did, and stockpile thousands of various IO Sets for later use.  Then, just make sure that you have enough alts, and all of those IOs will find a home eventually.  Law of averages, and all that.

 

For added benefit, sell the rarer ones, like the Defense Sets.  There always seems to be high demand of Defense Sets.

I always list at 1, and so I get my sales instantly.  I still come out ahead.

And I feel absolutely disgusting for doing it.

But for the amount of time I have available to play, and the other limiting factors, this is the only productive means of actually slotting IO Sets in my characters.

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The least expensive purple recipe on the original servers cost more than I've spent to fully kit out eight level 50 characters on the HC servers.  Five purple/ATO sets, both +Def (All), the PvP uniques, five LotG +Recharge IOs, the whole shebang on every character, times eight, and it's still not equaling the going rate of a single uncrafted Fortunate Hypnosis back in the day.

 

Not seeing the problem.

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Get busy living... or get busy dying.  That's goddamn right.

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Stares at his sg filled with io sets and toons he wants to strip for sets to make new toons with

 

I have no idea what prices are like except for winter sets that are situational. I just know lots of you buy stuff for 4mil and sell for 300k

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1 minute ago, Blackbird71 said:

 

When I saw the message "A Cat has replied," I was honestly expecting some random keyboard mashing.  😉

It's like the infinite monkey theorem but with a cat. And the bar to make a forum post is way lower. 

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7 hours ago, Killing Legacy said:

One of you rich scumbags give me some cash, ASAP 


I have more inf than I know what to do with. But in game, and in real life, giving has to be my idea, not yours, or I get no blessing. 

Pictured below - a stash of purples, one bin for each purple variety. All packed full. Email with 900M in each one, that's why the pattern increases by 900M instead of 1 Billion. 
And you get nothing from me because your manners are like that of a goat only more ill-mannered. 


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I just got my field crafter badge on my level 19 story arc toon.  I literally put 1,000 generic I/Os level 10-50 of all types on the market.  listed at 1 inf each.  

 

I make a lot of money crafting converting and selling.  when i do i sell 50-150 Set I/os (generally heal, defense, resists, endmod) for about 75% of market value. (I want to move these things...)

 

If you are struggling to pay for I/Os it is because you do not truly understand how to earn in the modern game.  In my opinion.

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1 hour ago, Ukase said:

Email

 

Please tell me you have one e-mail at the very beginning of all that with just one solitary inf in it as your "First Inf Earned."

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Not exactly. I have a bin with my first purple drop. Does that count? 

15 hours ago, Nemeroff said:

Be messed up if your character goes broke, or falls within a poverty range, and the costume(s) auto-switch to rags. Just so everyone knows.

OMG! That's brilliant! 

I would love, love, love it if we could only access a 2nd costume slot/cape/aura on inf thresholds. That would be fantastic! (My primary reason would be so I could recognize who actually needs inf, and who's just begging in hopes for a quick handout. ) 

And yes, I fully realize it would absolutely depress a number of players. I'm not at all being serious. I should rephrase. It would be amusing for a moment, to me. I'm well aware how much some folks love their costume slots and the tailor. 

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9 hours ago, Ukase said:


I have more inf than I know what to do with. But in game, and in real life, giving has to be my idea, not yours, or I get no blessing. 

Pictured below - a stash of purples, one bin for each purple variety. All packed full. Email with 900M in each one, that's why the pattern increases by 900M instead of 1 Billion. 
And you get nothing from me because your manners are like that of a goat only more ill-mannered. 


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Holy shit. I need to see what this guy does to make money and see if it also applies to real life. 

 

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18 hours ago, Killing Legacy said:

One of you rich scumbags give me some cash, ASAP 

 

Careful what you ask for.  If people with a dragon horde of influence started actually spending that bank, prices would go up. 

Active on Excelsior:

Prismatic Monkey - Seismic / Martial Blaster, Shadow Dragon Monkey - Staff / Dark Brute, Murder Robot Monkey - Arachnos Night Widow

 

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16 minutes ago, Shred Monkey said:

 

Careful what you ask for.  If people with a dragon horde of influence started actually spending that bank, prices would go up. 

 

*re-checks the price of orange salvage*

 

You sure they're not already going up?

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