Vanguard Pricing

I believe the prices for Vanguard items is unreasonable or doesn't make sense. A heavy cost 250 Vmerits and a hat cost 250 Vmerits. Why would a game item that's purely cosmetic cost the same as the item that has an effect on game play? The prices for some Vanguard costume pieces are way too high for what is sold. My suggestion; lower the price cap for what costume pieces can be bought at. I'd suggest nothing over 50 Vmerits since it's to be used on a player's character just for show and has no effect on game play.

For a further related/unrelated suggestion; costume packs that have multiple pieces to all the pieces for discounted prices.

mothership raids... 300-400 merits everytime.

the vanguard pricing is kind of high

yes, you can make an enormous amount of merits doing ship raids, but you need 2+ teams for the raid, and enough poeple to actually want to do the raid, if you do all the RWZ contacts, the most you might get if your lucky is 100 merits.

i agree that either the pricing needs to drop, or make vanguard merits drop more often outside of the ship raid.

A bit of tweaking would be good. Having gone on several ship raids I know just what a storm of chaos and lag it can be. I shudder to think what someone with a less powerful computer would have to deal with. Offering merits for completion of Vanguard missions and the LGTF would be good ways to get extra merits, though I'm not sure having Borea's missions give merits is a good thing or not.

Also: Necantebo's Curse Breaker. Seriously. Shelling out 50 merits for a limited-use power whose sole purpose is to counter one debuff attack that most of the playerbase will never encounter, let alone get affected by? That's just silly. (Please note the sweeping generalization there, so please don't reply with playerbase breakdown pie charts or horror stories as to what the Curse did to your toon).

While sorta on the topic of Vanguard merits and what they're used for, be nice if they came up with a new power or perk you can use merits on...

I don't think vanguard stuff is overpriced. There's not a damn thing else to do with the merits. They just pile up. Eventually you have to burn them on something.
Yeah, it might take a bit if you're watching the pot waiting on it to boil. But basically, they just accumulate and accumulate with no where else to go.

What's the deadline for getting the vanguard costume items?

you only have until the game becomes unprofitable and the servers shut down

I guess I don't get why folks are arguing against a change that has NO negative impact whatsoever. Things get cheaper: WOOT!

There's the sense of accomplishment of "I earned it!", then there's the sense of "I'd have to spend 20 otherwise productive hours of my life just to earn one costume piece. Stuff that." It's a tricky balance between making it too easy and making it a huge grindfest waste of time, but right now trying to kit a character out in full Vanguard armor falls squarely in the latter category.

My perspective: I only have 1 character that I want to deck out in vanguard stuff. Got him to lvl 38 and started to get on that task. I started the first arc (getting through more than several door missions) and defeated any rikti I saw between missions and looked at my merits. "WOOT! 150something!" Went to go buy my shield and couldn't. Turns out I was looking at my *normal* merits. *scrolls down* 14 vanguard merits...well ****.

I'm not going to complain or crusade for a change but hell, this is going to take forever...and it's not like I'm anti-social. If I hear shouts for RWZ *anything*(or any other TF randomly shouted, really), I'm on it but since I started spending my time there, I haven't heard any such shouts on Protector.

Hey, if anyone knows of anykind of stuff like RWZ stuff on Protector, hit me up

This is why I'd like to see the drop rate increased for non-mothership Rikti. Keep the sense of achievement and make mothership raids the easiest way to get 'em but make it easier for people who don't do raids to get the gear.

I think the price of the COSTUME parts should come down a little, OR that the merits for random defeats and missions should increase. I mean, doing the arcs, you have: Routed out traitors, save Paragon City and teh Rogue isles, exposed Nemesis's role in the original war, helped sign a peace treaty, and saved the world... hell, you saved the multiverse! And yet, you CAN'T BUY A PAIR OF BOOTS.

That's pretty stupid.

I understand that the devs were enforcing a pro-raid viewpoint, but having that be the ONLY way to get enough merits to get ANYTHING is a bit heavy-handed, and they may as well remove merit rewards from everything else.