Invention Origin Sets Update

After sinking countless hours into staring at the Mids Planner, even beyond that of my last post, I've got a build that falls part way between the highest possible stats I can find (at the moment), and what I have already purchased or found.

The Kinetic Combat sets I wanted are almost done - just one more piece to go.

I dropped one set of Entropic Chaos - it was much cheaper and actually more effective if I slotted out my Taunt with Mocking Beratement instead of Char/Ring of Fire. The cost for all 6 pieces of Mocking Beratement was actually under 1 million inf, while the Entropic Chaos is sort of unavailable and costing between 2-5 million per piece. I was really happy with that.

Reactive Armor is turning out to be hard to find. They don't list for a lot on the auction house, but there is almost nothing ever available to buy. I might have to do these through the merit system - they are only 50 merits each.

I haven't started on the Level 50 IO sets I wanted. I'll need two full Obliteration sets for offense. I'm using plain IOs right now for my AOE attacks.

Defensively, I need two partial Luck of the Gambler sets and a good number of healing set IOs - Numina's, Miracle, Regenerative Tissue, etc. These look like they are going to be the most difficult part of my build. The auction house sells these things for 25-75 million influence EACH. That to me is jaw droppingly expensive right now, and I will have a hard time convincing myself to spend so much influence on single IOs.

The merits system also has these for 200+ merits each, which means they are still pretty difficult to obtain. I did get one Miracle already for 240 merits a while back, but I'm wishing I knew about some other ones at the time, such as Regenerating Tissue's +end/+regen dual bonus. Perhaps I would have picked one of those first.

Sure I could play the market to get more money but that to me is not why I play City of Heroes. If I wanted to play market buying and selling to make money I'd be better off logging onto my trading account to watch the TSX and Dow Jones, not the Wentworths in City of Heroes. Inf costs 10 bucks for 100 million anyways as the daily in-game spams tell us.

I'll be satisfied with just getting these IOs slowly over time - eventually I'll get there. Stuff comes pretty quickly at 50. A few million inf per task force, etc, plus some nice drops, and I'll have those IOs sets complete soon enough.

Upsen.