Better to save or spend merits on random recipe?
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ClawsandEffect,
Posted on: 2009-07-15 23:04 in Player Questions
ive had really good luck going to the desk upstairs in AE and using tickets to get reward rolls for bronze drops. I have made decent money from that.
Ticket Rolls are weighted, though. The Merits are not. I usually roll randomly at around 25-35 levels, and put them on the market. I only save if there is a REASON to. (Like my build on my Kat/Regen Stalker needs a Numina's proc, so am saving for 250 merits for that for her instead of spending upward of 50mil on it on the market.).
I say Spending on rolls is better as 20 can get you one chance of those things, and 120-250 for those things in particular. Want one recipe or a chance at getting that one recipe 6-12 times?
Your choice, weigh your options!
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Like my build on my Kat/Regen Stalker needs a Numina's proc, so am saving for 250 merits for that for her instead of spending upward of 50mil on it on the market.
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You're better off spending 200 merits on a LotG 7.5% recharge. Sell that for around 100M, and buy your Numina. You spend less merits and pocket a nice profit.
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Best bet is the 35-39 random recipe roll if you're looking at inf-per-merit.
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Yeah - the 30-34 range, due to it including any recipe that exists at 30 (the main stop/start of the ranges) is the most populated.
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I buy random rolls (from level 33-40 characters) at 8 million/roll. I pay in advance, doesn't matter what you get.
I've paid for 3 and gotten a Numina; I've paid for 12 and gotten 12 rocks.
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Whether you save or roll mostly depends on your personality. I gotta roll. Even if I had a long run of garbage, I'd still roll my merits. I've had some lengthy runs of meh stuff. I've also done 10 rolls and gotten a Miracle *and* a Numinas.
Of course if there's something you just gotta have and you don't have the inf, or there are none coming on the market, you may have no better choice than to save and direct buy. I think that's very rarely the best choice though. If you want to go for the sure thing, take the suggestion given above. Buy whatever recipe gives the most inf/merit, sell that, then buy what you want. AFAIK that'd be a LotG +rech.
Me I've never bought a single recipe with merits, all mine have been rolled. I've gotten more LotGs, Miracles, and Numinas than I could have gotten using direct buys, and I got a lot of other decent stuff along the way. Maybe I'm just lucky but if you take the long view rolling is the way to go IMO.
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Ticket Rolls are weighted, though. The Merits are not.
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Merit Rolls are indeed weighted. The newly combined Pool C+D is on a weighted table and the Merit Roll, Gold Ticket Roll, and Boss-kill drops all use the same weighted table.
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Ticket Rolls are weighted, though. The Merits are not.
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Merit Rolls are indeed weighted. The newly combined Pool C+D is on a weighted table and the Merit Roll, Gold Ticket Roll, and Boss-kill drops all use the same weighted table.
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Ayup. I don't generally get a lot of high-dollar items when i random roll, but I DO tend to get stuff I can actually USE now.
Instead of getting a Trap of the Hunter on a chacter that doesn't even have access to an immobilize, I might get a Crushing Impact now. Not exactly cause for a party, but I can at least utilize it.
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... Crushing Impact is all pool A.
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I want to make money, and I have been doing the random recipe rolls from the TF pool. The last 7 rolls though I have gotten CRAP recipes that no one wants. (Things like Sniper, etc) -- Am I just having bad luck or is it really better to save merits and then buy something like a LOTG or Miracle?