I've been thinking about this whole merits thing for awhile. I agree with with concept, that the merit system needs to be reworked. Most of the players are not starting oro farm teams for merits or tf teams etc etc to earn merits fast. And honestly, I wouldn't be too excited knowing how many times I'd have to run the same handful of tf/trials to get enough merits to earn one single recipe, let alone an entire set.. for one power... Yes I think this needs to be looked at.
I agree people will be more inclined to run normal game content alongside AE if they did something to make merits more useful. Give us something to break free from the market entirely. Here's something to think about to. With the huge increase of websites spamming/selling influence you can't deny that more and more people are just spending money outside of the game to get the influence required to spend on the market. This inflation will not go down because of it, people are going to continue supporting the sale of influence over websites so they can buy the highly priced items keeping the prices high. Fix the merit system so we can let those people continue to spend money outside of the game or farm until their eyes bleed and we can enjoy the more content-filled route of earning the recipes we desire.
I personally think earning merits is pretty easy, it's just the cost of the rewards that are a stinker. Instead of increasing or changing the way we earn merits I thought maybe just look into lowering the cost of the items through merit vendors would suffice. 150-250 merits for an IO recipe? Yuck, when you're earning like 6 per arc and 50ish per TF/Trial. with the time restrictions to slow down intake as well. And to think about all the wasted time on teams that disband before TF completion (yes it isn't THAT common but still happens) is upsetting.
Iunno, I think this is a good topic to discuss and look into. Clearly they wouldn't have added the merit system for any random reason. They added it and put vendors up to help players who play the game get the same rewards that farmers get. I support this idea! Good post.
