As a casual player due to working 50+ hour work week this just seems to be another way the casual player has been left behind. Since people like me only get to play maybe a handful of hours in any given week it is hard for us to get in on TF or SF. I am strictly a villian player. SO there are few TF for us as there are for the Heros. SO when we do get to play we might be able to get in on 1 or 2 TF IF we are lucky. so what will take your other player a week to get enough merits to purchas a new set it takes casual players weeks or even months to get the same thing. People say just buy em off the black market. My answer to them is when a single IO cost hundreds of millions to get and I cant spend 16-20 hours a day farming infamy it takes just as long.
So In ending this system just does not work for casual players. Increase drop rates or make merits obtainable in other ways so the casual player can keep up.
As for story arcs, I have already done 90% of them before this issue. Retro rewarding merits for arcs completed by a character would be nice. Otyherwise I have to find some way to go redo them which seems to be a waste of time for me. Already done it now I have to waste my limited time going back and redoing everything I already did. So in turn It limits me getting to experience the new content because I am scrambling to find a way to redo what story arcs I already completed and then pray that I still get the merits.
