mid level alignment merit rolls
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anonymoose,
Posted on: 2010-09-08 05:57 in The Market and Inventions
while rolling will give you 5 recipes in your chosen area, so you oculd get a few 100mil plus recipes.
You could just examine the market for the best selling recipes/crafted. and do that. Possibly more bang for your buck.
For example, LoTG proc is 2 merits, get 1 more merit and you oculd vend 3 of them, netting yourself a fair amount.
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Originally Posted by VoodooGirl
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if the OP has 4 merits now, they could get 2 LotG procs now but would need 2 more merits to get a third one.|
Originally Posted by Mega_Jamie
while rolling will give you 5 recipes in your chosen area, so you oculd get a few 100mil plus recipes.
You could just examine the market for the best selling recipes/crafted. and do that. Possibly more bang for your buck. For example, LoTG proc is 2 merits, get 1 more merit and you oculd vend 3 of them, netting yourself a fair amount. |
to the OP - hunt around on this board, there are many good postings that will give you a lot of information on this topic, as well as links to some good sites that you can use to see what recipes can drop in certain ranges.
based on all the reading I have done, my personal opinion would be to wait until at least lvl 32 and then roll for recipes in the 35 - 39 range. that seems to have the best odds of getting something that will sell for a lot of inf.
but Mega presents a good option as well, depending on how lucky you feel. with 2 merits you can claim a specific recipe at a specific level (within range of your character level) that you know will sell for a lot, the LotG Mega suggested is usually a good bet.
on the other hand, with those same 2 merits you could get 10 random recipes from the 35 - 39 group. and if you hit the lottery that day, that could include a LotG or two and come out way ahead of buying 1 specific recipe.
Did my first random roll with a villain merit, and scored a LotG recharge and a Miracle - Recovery, and a couple decent others. So now I'm in the process of coverting a lvl 47's reward merit's to villain merits. But the random rolls are much like Vegas: They sucker you in with a couple good rolls and then your merits are theirs 
35-39 is traditionally The Place To Roll- it gives you all the same stuff as 40+ plus Entropic Chaos triple [meh] and Kinetic Combat triple [around 100 million, last time I got one.] You have to be level 32 min to do that, though. 30-34 is a little... full, though.
Some people root for a really low band, either 10-14 or 15-19. My theory on the matter is, it's sort of a waste to buy (or to roll super-low so you'll hit the level cap for the IO anyway) on a sub-50 character, because ANYONE could do that on a 50. If you random roll, you get stuff that pretty much only comes from a level 30 (or 33, or 35). Obliterations, stealths, Impervium Armor: Resist, there's like fifteen good things that you wouldn't necessarily pay AM's for that will still sell for 50 or 100 million.
... Oh, and just because the last 5 sold for 1-5 million doesn't mean ANYTHING. Goat's "Zero for sale" rule is very true.
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So if I had a character level locked at 30 right now.. would it be better to get him to 32 or just sit where he is? As it is, I roll 30-34 on him for fun. Kinda curious, as that extra power might make things easier...
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Originally Posted by Fulmens
35-39 is traditionally The Place To Roll- it gives you all the same stuff as 40+ plus Entropic Chaos triple [meh] and Kinetic Combat triple [around 100 million, last time I got one.] You have to be level 32 min to do that, though. 30-34 is a little... full, though.
Some people root for a really low band, either 10-14 or 15-19. My theory on the matter is, it's sort of a waste to buy (or to roll super-low so you'll hit the level cap for the IO anyway) on a sub-50 character, because ANYONE could do that on a 50. If you random roll, you get stuff that pretty much only comes from a level 30 (or 33, or 35). Obliterations, stealths, Impervium Armor: Resist, there's like fifteen good things that you wouldn't necessarily pay AM's for that will still sell for 50 or 100 million. ... Oh, and just because the last 5 sold for 1-5 million doesn't mean ANYTHING. Goat's "Zero for sale" rule is very true. |
At the risk of data-dump, a link.
You go from 98 to 68 recipes. You lose a lot of junk, a LOT of junk, but you also lose Eradication and Basilisk's Gaze and probably a couple other nice things that I'm overlooking. You gain ... umm, looks like you only gain two snipe sets. I thought there were more things that started at 35 than that.
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Theft of Essence end proc, Cloud Senses A/E/R and proc, Shield Breaker A/E/R and proc, Call to Arms D/E/R and def bonus proc, and maybe Impeded Swiftness proc. The Shield Breakers and the Cloud Senses were hovering about 100 million or more sometime in the last month, though I ain't looked at them in a couple weeks.
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Originally Posted by Fulmens
you also lose Eradication and Basilisk's Gaze and probably a couple other nice things
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Something that's not made super obvious in game: You can only spend merits once per day. As soon as you buy anything, whether it's a roll, a specific recipe, or a costume piece, all purchases (except the convert) are locked out for 20 hours.|
Originally Posted by anonymoose
Should I roll them at 30, or hoard 'till 35?
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This means that if you have 20 merits by the time you hit 35 (assuming you decide to go that route), it would take you 30 days to roll them all, assuming that you're spending one merit a day on rolls, and continuing to earn one additional merit every 2 days.
Generally, the only reason to horde A-Merits is if you're planning on buying a big-ticket item, and there's debates elsewhere in the Market forums about whether that's a good idea or not.
@Roderick
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I didn't realize there was a debate. Seems pretty unanimous that it's a bad idea. Assuming 200 million for each 2 recipes (accomplish either via luck of the gambler, miracle, or numina, your call), you can get the money to buy anything listed on the market in 20 merits or less. There are no purples that sell for 2 billion so at this point we're only talking about one or two specific PvP procs, where people tend to recommend going for inf to buy rather than hording merits, unless you think availability is more of an issue than cost. There are debates about rolling vs picking, but on the high ticket issue I have seen 100% agreement in every thread I've read. Though I have skipped a few.|
Originally Posted by Roderick
Generally, the only reason to horde A-Merits is if you're planning on buying a big-ticket item, and there's debates elsewhere in the Market forums about whether that's a good idea or not.
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I mean the most expensive purples are 600 million if you but it NAO, and that's only 6 merits worth of inf. not the 20 it takes to buy via merits. where is a post with anyone saying spend 20 merits instead of 6 merits?
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I've been using one of my neglected lowbies to earn villain alignment merits. (My 50s villains are having too much fun running blueside content)
The alignment mishes are kind of fun, it's always nice to see new content, and to my altoholic mind it seems a great way to lucratively level alts.
So anyway I dinged 30 last night and have 4 vill merits to roll. Should I roll them at 30, or hoard 'till 35? What pool should I roll?