Worst A-Merit Roll Ever?
By
BashfulBanshee,
Posted on: 2010-09-30 06:10 in The Market and Inventions
I've been recording my merit rolls over 3 characters for the past half-month, just to see how it stacks up versus straight buying minimum level LotG: +Rech. I'm gonna order it all up once I get to a full month. But so far, I've had very few actual vendor trash recipies (I consider something vendor trash if it's cost of crafting + listing would net me less than a million in profit). A lot have fallen to selling for 5 mil or 10 mil, so there's a lot that's only getting me 1 to 2 million. But I still get a good deal of 30-50 mil recipes.
As for worst rolls ever, I once snagged 2 Ghost Widow procs and 1 Malaise proc, with the other two being unnotable. It was before I started recording though, so I don't have exactly what the other two were.
I found info quite awhile back about doing this with two macro's:
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Or lemme see (search), ok
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/macro NoXP "optionset noxp 1" and /macro XP "optionset noxp 0" |
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"If you wanted to shorten it even further, you could bind/macro only 1 command instead. /macro XP optiontoggle noxp Pressing the same key/macro will turn it off and on, depending on your current status. It should notify you in your System chat what the current status is after you press the key." |
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Originally Posted by Arcanaville
City of Heroes didn't fail, City of Heroes was killed. If a 747 dropped on your house, you'd say you were killed, not you failed to find a safer dwelling.
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The sequel:
LotG +rech 25
Gaussian's rech/end 25
Decimation and Scirocco triples
and another Aegis Rech/End
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Originally Posted by Kelenar
but as it is, I think the rolls give better cash on average. (Doesn't help that I'm thoroughly bored with the level 50 villain alignment missions, so the chances of me doing four days of them instead of two are slim.) I can't prove that, it's just my gut feeling plus general opinions that I've seen. I'd be interested to see some hard data.
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Not in my experience of 400+ merits in a couple days.
Granted random means random. But I picked up a lot of random crap. (Crap being the operative term.)
More than half my haul was procs. Most of which were glutting the market (both in recipe form and crafted). Literally, the components to craft were worth more than the crafted IOs. Maybe if I were picking up alignment merits from tip missions regularly, I'd say "oh well". But I wound up losing money in the long run from random rolls through RM to AM conversion.
Granted, it was an experiment and I'm in no wise hurting for inf. But the cheap bastich in me has a sour taste in his mouth over it.
Clicking on the linked image above will take you off the City of Heroes site. However, the guides will be linked back here.
My recent experience (merits rather than A-merits, do they roll on the same table ?) is that direct buying with A-merits would net more than random rolls. I've rolled about 1500 merits (lvl 50 toon, 35-39 with a few 30-34 rolls), and am averaging a estimated profit of about 8M a roll, but I've had very few of the really expensive recipes. That would mean an A-merit is worth 40M and clearly I can do better than that by buying specific recipes. Am however looking forward to my low level PvP +3% def (my toon has 21 A-merits atm) which if it's worth 3BN would be 100M an A-merit although I'm intending to slot mine.
I level locked one of my toons not to spend the A-merits, but because I found the level 39 tip missions much less frustrating than the 40+ ones.
It's true. This game is NOT rocket surgery. - BillZBubba
Edit; oh hey another page! ignore this.