Why were the new Merits made to decrease TF Recipe prices and increase Purple prices?

Silly question- if we take it as a given that Pool C's will increase in supply and the price will drop (making the market more accessible to non-marketeers)... Anybody think it will be worth it to stock up on rare salvage? I would expect the price of that stuff to rise (less AE farming, more tip/alignment merit farming) - kinda wondering if it might be worth speculating some on.

There's a LOT of backed-up Rare Salvage in the system, and people reach 50 at different speeds. It may well go up in value, but it's actually gone down since GR hit so it may just be returning to previous levels.

I guess what I'm saying is "I'm not confident making that bet with my own money."

You are choosing to run it at +0/x5. That is contrary to the notion of fast.

For me, this is the fastest you can get and do your tip missions at level 50 blueside. Insure you are on -1/x1. In Talos, kill greys until first Tip drops which has a mission in Talos, dismissing those which are not in Talos. Head towards that mission, killing along the way, more Tips should drop. If a new drop is even closer than the one you are heading for, switch to that one. Even missions with 3 or 4 objectives do not take long at all on -1/x1. Exit mission, head to the next one, killing more if you run out of Talos tips. Shouldn't take more than 30-45 minutes if your character is even halfway decent at soloing. I don't even have a travel power(though I do have Ninja Run), and I am almost always at 30 minutes.

This may be more difficult redside, I don't know.

Need to remember too that with the market merge, all previous prices were wiped so the "first posters" got to set the prices. I'd say, along with most others, that eventually things will even out and the prices will return to relatively normal.

There's also a few missions that are tedious to complete, especially depending on the character. I always drop the ones to Rescue Sister Jocasta, Rescue the Debutantes, and Rescue the Corrupt Cops. Mainly because all three involve escorts, which means you can't just blow past the NPCs.

My favorite is the Jar of Flesh mission, since all you need to do is kill 2 Arachnos Lts on the lowest difficulty setting. It takes like 2 minutes to finish.

Getting the first tip missions seems like its the hardest.

Once I get the first one I start it. I was trying to ghost them but found myself back tracking because of ALL the objectives changing. So what I've been doing after I start the first tip mission, is just about clearing the whole map. My other account just sits inside the map collecting more tip missions. By the time I have finished the first tip mission I usually have all tip missions waiting between my main account and the one just sitting at the door.

I think the 3 tip mish limit is a PITA, it should be upped to 5 since thats the max amount you can do anyways.

Your first morality gives you 50 reward merits (so you can buy a merit), all after that give you the hero merit directly. I don't know exactly how side switching works- I thought you had to pay money for the first h/v merit on the new side. I'm realizing I don't know if that's true.

The real reason they made the new merits is:

they wanted to show how confusing it would have been to have kept base salvage in the game.