I understand the feeling but have you read zho's post about eff and looter's effect on TT return in the long term? He tested it and charted it at multiple levels and his finds were that in theory if you had looter 100 and eff 100 in theory you vod get 190% TT returns but we'll never have a 100 eff gun but we can get infinitely close so, what's your current looter level? 50ish? You could be missing like 3% returns and with 60 eff you're missing another 3% so 93~ % returns long term is expected for you.I still struggle to find some decent MU mob to hunt, oil market is totaly broken only some oil sell (heart/spleen) but those are hardly obtainable, tried some bot but when you gather 1k ped of robot part it become a pain to sell and everyone undercut big stacks... and most items on low/mid mob are tt trash or 105% which won t sell and make you loose market fee...
To be fair i was happy when i saw the loot change, bought a new setup, switched to MF as they are more affordable ( the MM amp give a 3.21dpp to my setup) bought an easter ring to max crit and add even more dpp (3.44) and i usually use candy cane (so 3.49dpp) for around 53 dps, with 60% eff but i still struggle to make a decent return on average.
I cycled around 100k (from early dec to now) lost around 5-7k ped (my tracker bugged 2 time i had to reset it) i got a 2.5k uber for the new year, but the MU i got is no ways near 5-7k ped... and i tried to hunt smart... (tried T4-5 compo but they are hard to loot and mob loot nothing else, tried robot, bery/bibo for muscle/ wood, and currently testing evi, i will try to save/depo more peds to hunt spidy (but this mean the use of enhancer which reduce my eff and my dpp to 3.375 and i will need at least 10-15k ped in amo to cycle properly)
i would like to test a 80-85% eff gun to see if it really change but i don t have the ped to buy a lvl 30 gun at 100k... and sadly as i did a giant break most of my ancient uber friend/contact stopped EU so i can t even borrow one, someone lended me a weak argo claw FEN and i tried it a little (around 20k cycled) but i didn't feel a big change to my return (but 20k isn t that much)
I'm at a point if anyone got some advice i'm fully open to hear them, but my current point of view is the game is still hard as always for mid players... if you can t hunt nice mob you won t loot any decent L item with some MU... (thats why i m thinking to switch to spider).
So i'm all open to suggestion...
So until I get a high (90+) eff weapon and looter above 70s I don't expect consistent profits during hunts. As more and more mayhems or other events add in more high eff weapons, prices will go down. I don't imagine someone would wanna hoard a million dollars worth of "expected mu" on high eff weapons when there's more than enough for every player in game later on and take the smarter route to sell early when you can.