Thanks for another fun Tight Night

Hey guys,

I appreciated the session last night with you two. I realize Rob was handicapped and Eric ended the evening just this side of incoherent, but I had a great time. I put in bids with Mantlet to get some magic SO's and I'll check those tonight to see what I bought. Getting some decent capability in Mantlet's enhancements is gonna be a short term priority. Now that he's getting close to the end-game (taking L50 IOs, etc), I need to rethink his slotting and build. Particularly where the Damage enhancements go (two L50 IOs are damn close to three SOs at the ED cap). I also need to think about a setup that supports the Set enhancements to get the global bonuses. That gets tricky, since that kind of "optimized" build is gonna take a trainload of cash, KHEX runs, and rare salvage drops. I'm not sure that I want to put that kind of time into Mantlet right away. He's part of our prime set and I'd like to keep him "old school" for a while.

Anyway, I may jump online sometime with him and join some 8-man teams (if I can find any that are not farming/bridging/PL'ing) to get those 3 bubbles so Orleans and I are at the same point as far as XP goes. I've noticed that our leveling has slowed down a lot since we pushed past L45. Hopefully there is another Double XP weekend brewing in the next 3 months that we all can participate in. Eric's been missing out and I've been reluctant to play Mantlet and create a gap between our (Eric and I, anyway) two highest characters. We'll get there, though. Mebbe we all roll PeaceBringers/Warshades then and go nuts in the Hollows... : )

Anyway, we'll see what happens. I logged Flambeau for a bit after you guys left to get that little sliver of XP needed to bump him up to L40. Now that he's at 40, the CoT in the Abandoned Sewer system should be Green/Blue/Yellow to him, which is perfect for working the salvage drops. Hopefully I'll get lucky again. The spawns there have an inordinate amount of bosses in them, so each boss has a 25% chance to drop salvage. LTs are 16% and minions 8%. With a spawn of 12 or so with 4 bosses in it, odds are I'll get 1-3 salvage drops per spawn. All arcane salvage too, which is the sweet spot in the market right now.

Oh, and I did some thinking last night about Eric's 30M profit. If you could post a little about your methodology there, I'd appreciate it. Sounds like with the right startup capital, you can really make hay if you do it smartly (I assume with L50 IOs). I have a vault full of rare salvage I can always liquidate to make more influence, but I'd like to have another option and Eric's methodology sounds intriguing... : )

Thanks again guys, I had a great time.