Yes, Hero/Villain merits drop normally after the first 50 reward merits.
To clarify:
If you spend Reward Merits and Inf to get Hero/Villain Merits, you have to spend that each time.
However, the first time you run a Morality mission and affirm your alignment, you get 50 Reward Merits--it's like a Story Arc.
After that first time, you will receive an Alignment Merit upon the completion of a Morality Mission. You might be better off running Tips/Morality Missions if you don't like spending Inf.
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Outrageously high?
I've converted around 14 H/V merits into recipes (5 recipes per merit) and I've averaged over 100 million inf per H/V merit. That's rolling on characters in the 30-35 range, even though traditionally level 50 is where the big money is.
Outrageous is in the eye of the beholder, I guess.
Mini-guides: Force Field Defenders, Blasters, Market Self-Defense, Frankenslotting.
So you think you're a hero, huh.
@Boltcutter in game.
That's a part of my problem: I cannot find a source that tells exactly how these things drop or what you can do with them.
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Excuse woeful ignorance, but like I say I just can't find a source divulging who what where when and how. Even Paragonwiki tells you next to nothing about how these things work.
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He is referring to the value of the Recipes when he sells them on the Market, Recipes that he has gotten using Alignment Merits.|
Originally Posted by Bad_Influence
That's a part of my problem: I cannot find a source that tells exactly how these things drop or what you can do with them.
...you can put them on the market? Excuse woeful ignorance, but like I say I just can't find a source divulging who what where when and how. Even Paragonwiki tells you next to nothing about how these things work. |
Bad Influence, I would suggest just running Tip Missions. You can get five Alignment Points (not Merits) every 20 hours, which, basically, comes to running five Tip Missions a day. You need a total of 10 Alignment Points to get a Morality Mission, which is a special Tip Mission (and is labeled on the Tip Tab of the Contact Window) which is the mission that actually drops the Alignment Merit upon completion. So, you should be able to get one Alignment Merit every two days if you run Tips consistently.
What I do is run Borea's repeatable Missions in the Rikti War Zone until I get a Tip, then run Tips until they run out.
Also, Tips can drop from any minion or higher enemy that is L20 or higher, even if you are L50.
(I'm not sure if Vigilante/Rogue Merits exist, for what it's worth.)
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Grumble has correctly translated Fulmens-to-English.
As far as I can remember, this is what you can do with Hero/Villain Alignment Merits:
1 HVAM = 5 "random rolls" - just like you'd get with 100 reward merits. Recipes will be your level (or as close as it can get), weighted random "pool C" .
1-2 HVAM = custom "pool C"- whatever you want, whatever level you want.
20-ish HVAMs = custom purple- whatever you want, whatever level you want. Umm, as long as it's 50.
25-30 HVAM's = custom PVP - whatever you want, whatever level you want.
PVP's are _probably_ a huge waste of HVAM's. There may be exceptions. Some people pay crazy amounts off-Market for some things. I'm not in that tax bracket.
Purples are a huge waste of HVAM's. I don't know anyone who disputes this. 100 random pool C's or 10 "most expensive pool C on the market" (LoTG?) or one Purple.
I think you make about the same money on the market with the randoms or the "most expensive" but there's a lot of inefficiency in the market... so it may change from day to day or moment to moment.
Mini-guides: Force Field Defenders, Blasters, Market Self-Defense, Frankenslotting.
So you think you're a hero, huh.
@Boltcutter in game.
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Originally Posted by Bad_Influence
Excuse woeful ignorance, but like I say I just can't find a source divulging who what where when and how. Even Paragonwiki tells you next to nothing about how these things work.
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If you play enough other content to earn 50 Reward Merits a day, Getting 2.5 A-Merits every 2 days is well worth the cost of conversion. Getting rare IOs that normally cost hundreds of millions, or several random rolls that can usually be sold for those high prices, really make them a good deal.
Buying Purples or PvP recipes is less of a good deal, but if you're already set for the more regular stuff, then it's still a good way to save up and get something you need.
"Null is as much an argument "for removing the cottage rule" as the moon being round is for buying tennis shoes." -Memphis Bill
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Originally Posted by Fulmens
Outrageous is in the eye of the beholder, I guess.
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I used to think 20 million outrageous until I found a way to earn from the market.
The plastic tips at the end of shoelaces are called aglets. Their true purpose is sinister.
--The Question, JLU
....so I've looked here and looked there, and I don't really see an answer to this exact question; and yes I did look at the GR FAQ....
Are hero merits supposed to drop freely after one pays the initial 20 million [?!! which seems outrageously high...!] or are we going to have to be buying them one by one, paying 20 million each time?
If its the latter this will severely limit their usefulness to me. By the time I paid twenty million enough times to get 20 hero merits, I might as well have used WW.