FYI, if anyone’s trying to get rid of salvage by putting it in the three racks on the back wall of the base, those have high permissions set.
I think I added those recently, and didn’t think to look at permissions.
I noticed that the most recent rack is only accessible to the top two ranks when I was dumping stuff from Hellfury.
Incidentally, I bought a bunch of Winter Packs, and got a Windfall temporary power as one of my prizes - holy CRAP. Extra Influence, extra salvage, extra recipes… I got two purples in one farm run.
Shadow Samaritan hit 50 last night! Woo! I joined a pickup PI team after Laura’s farm was over, and managed the last half a level.
Speaking of Laura’s farming, she can now solo an entire Bloody Rainbow without ever once touching either of her panic buttons or her self-heal. The last three missions, I didn’t even need to use my ageless destiny power (I’m not sure what changed there; I don’t think I made any End-related upgrades). And she’s starting to get pretty well into the incarnate abilities, with some corresponding big damage increases (since my survivability is obviously fine, I’m putting everything in my incarnates into maxing damage).
And I finally came up with a Peacebringer concept that’s interesting to me. Haxaano’arilamn isn’t a merger of a Kheldian and a human. He’s a merger of a Kheldian and a Maaxigada’arzildilo. When they discovered that Earth was in the midst of fighting off the Shivans, they sent their two greatest champions to help in the fight.
It’s different, at least. For my one Peacebringer on Live, I went with dying human + dying Kheldian = just barely not-dying Peacebringer because it was an easy justification for the Peacebringer being a puny level 1 hero. (And because I like comeback stories, I suppose.) Maybe yours has restrictions on their hero license until they prove they’re not going to cause too much collateral damage. 
Got my brute his alpha slot over the weekend. He’s only my second 50, but a fun switch from the blaster.
I’ve been finding myself merit-rich but inf-poor, so I decided to remedy that. But I figured, instead of just selling converters, I ought to research how to use them myself, and cut out the middleman. And it turns out it’s a lot easier and a lot more profitable and reliable than I thought: A lot of places list the basics, but none really boils down just how simple it is. It’s often called “converter roulette”, but it’s actually possible to remove luck from the process entirely, at least for certain steps of the process.
The key is that conversion always keeps the level the same. And for most set categories (ranged damage, PBAoE, healing, etc.), in the level 10-14 range, there are exactly two sets possible, one uncommon and one rare. So if you have an uncommon piece in that level range, and convert it within type (the option that costs two converters), you’re guaranteed to get a rare. Given the prices of yellow enhancements, this by itself is almost always profitable. But if you want to take it further, you can start taking risks, and take that new rare you have, and convert it within rarity (costing 1 converter), until you get something that’s worth enough (the guides usually say to aim for something with a 2 million inf or more selling price, which seems about right from my limited experience).
Full process: Set the AH to show you level 10 enhancements (you could go 10-14, or for some categories 10-19, but since the AH auto-converts level, any one level is good enough). Put in orders for everything. Whenever you log in, pick up whatever you’ve bought, and put in replacement orders for more of those things. Open the convert window, drag your level 10 yellows in one at a time, and convert to level 10 oranges. If you happen to accidentally get one of the few categories for which this doesn’t work (recharge intensive pet, sniper, targeted AoE, accurate healing, accurate to-hit debuff, accurate defense debuff), then just convert it in-rarity first to (almost certainly) get one of the ones that does work.
Then, drag all of your new oranges into the AH, and look each up. If it’s above 2 million, list it. If it’s below, grab it back into your inventory. Then go through everything in your inventory, and change it once within rarity, drag all those into the AH, and repeat.
Flaminatrix spent Sunday running through Crimson’s entire Malta arc. Great arc, lots of fun.
Afterward I did a major respec. My primary purpose was to get rid of Jump Kick, which I think I took as a prerequisite for Acrobatics (to get more defense), but it was at a late level and I didn’t realize I wouldn’t have another power pick coming. I also took the opportunity to skip picking Fire Breath from my primary PS and Combustion from my secondary, as I never use either power. That all allowed me to take three new pool powers, so I picked up Hover (which I probably should have taken much earlier) and Afterburner, and also Melt Armor from the Flame Mastery epic pool. It also freed up some slots, so I was able to add 6th slots to some powers and complete the sets I had in them, giving Flaminatrix a net improvement from the extra set bonuses. It was nice to actually have enough Inf to immediately buy the attuned IOs I needed to complete those sets!
I’ve also been able to get enough catalysts to improve both ATO sets to purples, and I’m 4/6 toward completing the Apocalypse purple set - I was quite happy to discover that I could use merits to purchase the recipes from the merit vending machine, instead of hoping for drops or paying large sums on the AH.
Oh, and I think I’ve finally remembered how Flaminatrix had 314 million Inf on live, despite having less time at 50 then (she hit 50 not long before the shutdown) than she does now on HC. I think it was just the fact that, at that stage of the game’s life, longtime players were so filthy rich that they were casually tossing 100-million-Inf bids at purple recipes on the AH. So I didn’t have to actually sell that many items to get that amount.
For my lower-level alts, I’m keeping my eyes open for PvP recipes. Holy crap, PvPers will pay outrageous sums for those.
Forgot to mention - I’ve dispensed with using a 32-inch flatscreen TV as my monitor, and have gone back to my original 24-inch monitor. My eyes were bugging me all the time, and I started to suspect that having such a large screen right in front of my face (space limitations meant I couldn’t move it back) was forcing a whole lot of “extreme” eye movement in order to take in everything at the edges of the screen. It’s been two days now, and my eyes feel much better.
Nice! Congrats on the respec and the monitor switch!
I have been scarce the past couple of weeks due to the holidays, but I plan to jump back in in earnest next week - gotta get Shadow’s Alpha unlocked, and he has a whole bunch of missions on deck with AVs…
Speaking of those PvP recipes I mentioned, one dropped for Bruised Violet, my main villain (currently level 29). Inspired by Chronos’ conversion comments, I crafted the IO and then converted it within the set until I got the one with the proc (it took 3 conversions). I put it up on the AH, and it got me a nice 12 million inf (as opposed to the ~4 million the original recipe itself was going for).
For me 24” is the sweet spot; any bigger and my eyes bug me. I recently grabbed a really nice 4K gaming monitor from Amazon that is super crisp. I wanted a curved screen but that was too speedy.
Heh, Peskipiksi is going through Crimson’s arc, too. I’m still eagerly awaiting the promises I’ve heard of one with a giant monster ambush. She’s 49 now, and I’ve gotten her specced out in her endgame gear, aside from a handful of level-50-onlies. Though I’m not sure what last power I want for her.
She’s also one heck of a controller. I’ve got a dozen different powers, including an always-on aura, all with stun procs, two hold powers and an immobilize power each with two additional hold procs, and three other powers with hold procs, and anything that manages to stay standing past all of that is quickly drained to 0 endurance. Enemies are doing a lot of glaring at her menacingly, and occasionally wising up and trying (in slow motion) to run away.
So, uhm… Been a while. A long while. Since I’ve played CoH. Thinking of making a comeback. I take there’s a Dopers’ guild?
Yup, we’re C.E.C.I.L. on the Everlasting server. My global handle is @RikOz - gimme a holla and I’ll invite you if you do decide to join in. I’m on quite a lot - for now anyway; my job will be picking back up again pretty soon.
On a related note, I just noticed that Balanced apparently stepped down and made me (well, Flaminatrix) the new Perfect Master. When did this happen?
When I got busy and didn’t log in for too long, and you were the next one to sign in.
(I will be back, but between holidays, writing tasks, and other games, I’ve been letting Bal rest on their laurels.)
HA, HA! [/nelson]
OK, so maybe YOU can fix the permissions on those three salvage racks, then.