Alignment Merits: Reward Rolls or Choose a Recipe?
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Posted on: 2010-09-28 13:24 in Player Questions
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Well, the 35-39 range is typically considered the best for random rolls of merits and tickets so the same would hold for A-merits. The only problem with random rolling is that you'll get a level 50 (or maximum level of the recipe) if you're rolling with a level 50; I like to slot 30-40 IO's to allow room to exemp myself.|
Originally Posted by Syntax42
Has anyone posted the math for reward rolls for the alignment (Hero / Villain) merits yet? I am curious to know if it is statistically better to do the rolls or stick with picking a recipe I know will sell for 50 million per alignment merit.
I have tried the reward rolls ten times and got less than 1 million out of the recipes for all but one try. My first try, I got a Luck of the Gambler global recharge, but the other nine made the math more in favor of picking a recipe. Am I just on a bad luck streak, or do the reward rolls really pay off? Also, what level range is best? I have been doing 35-39 rolls on my level 50 characters. |
I've been running A-merits on a couple of my 50 heroes and every 4 days I buy two level 25 LOTG 7.5% recharge recipes... one on each of the characters. Right now I'm simply crafting & storing for other alts and in anticipation of issue 19's changes; once I have what I want I'll probably go back to the random roll when I'm just looking to turn them into inf. Unfortunately with a random roll sometimes you'll get the LOTG, Miracle or Numina uniques and other times you'll get Pacing of the Turtle and Crap of the Hunter.
COH has just been murdered by NCSoft. http://www.change.org/petitions/ncso...city-of-heroes
I haven't kept exact written records on it but every time I've rolled for 5 random level 50 recipes from an A-merit I've been able to easily yield at least 50 million from the sale of those crafted recipes. I've done this at least 20 times at this point. Many times I'll net over 100 million from that exchange with a LotG or some-such.
You might get lucky doing the level 35-39 recipes, but I seem to get more reliable results from the level 50s. As always YMMV.
Loth 50 Fire/Rad Controller [1392 Badges] [300 non-AE Souvenirs]
Ryver 50 Ele� Blaster [1392 Badges]
Silandra 50 Peacebringer [1138 Badges] [No Redside Badges]
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Has anyone posted the math for reward rolls for the alignment (Hero / Villain) merits yet? I am curious to know if it is statistically better to do the rolls or stick with picking a recipe I know will sell for 50 million per alignment merit.
I have tried the reward rolls ten times and got less than 1 million out of the recipes for all but one try. My first try, I got a Luck of the Gambler global recharge, but the other nine made the math more in favor of picking a recipe. Am I just on a bad luck streak, or do the reward rolls really pay off? Also, what level range is best? I have been doing 35-39 rolls on my level 50 characters.