All your replies were very helpful thank you everyone, much appreciated.
So I'm looking at $2K+ for decent fap..mmmmmm that does seem reasonable. Maybe L is the answer for now, and I test the water first think about it for a few months before any heavy investments.
As some you know I sold everything (except) skills late autumn of last year, so my items and store where practically zero.
I came back because of pets, although got sucked into a little bit of hunting with a new MF combo which is:
Unl VI comb attack chip and unl VI heal. About TT+300 each and no armour. So basically an unlimited hunting setup on medium mobs for +600 perfect for trox and abmul if the ninjas are not too crazy. Not bad I thought. Although it was worrying me that I'm not doing enough DPS to pull in decent loots.
Having been inspired by Fort's (soc leaders) hunting strategy and his twitch stream, I was thinking maybe hunting big mobs but less often with bigger peds, is the answer to this modern game at higher levels.
Or at least manage hunts better, and plan a bit better. I was good at focusing on missions at one point.
So I bought a compete set of gremlin and an Adj A105 from auction last night, with the idea that a big fap would mean I don't need such expensive armour.
I now need some 5b's next and maybe L60 (L) and UR175 (L) or 125, then give MA a chance again.
I can wait though; I'll pay these items first on my CC (around £200), then make a budget for next month (good patience training). I hope to get going before March anyhow. So will keep watching the market see how it is.
Then it all depends how hard mobs hit with a ton of evade and grem armour. If it means investing $1000's to do some "fun" hunting then I might just say f*** it, and wait for the pet fighting....I don't know.
The game does need a ton of better faps to match modern mobs, good to see something is happening with that.
Cheers again folks, prices are useful to allow me to think about cost of hunting setups.
Cautious Rick