Purple drop rates!!!

Sometimes, the forums really remind me of Monty Python's 'Life of Brian'.

"Yes, but apart from TFs and arc merits and AE tickets and the market and the difficulty sliders and SSK and alignment merits and gleemail and merging the markets, what have the devs ever done for the casual player?!"

Everyone who wants Ferraris needs to do at least one of those things, yes.

Or one of the many other things that produces lots of Inf, like running Hero Tips until you have two Hero Merits, and turning them into a high-value recipe (like Luck of the Gambler +7.5% Global Recharge or Numina's Convalescence Regen/Recovery Unique) and selling that on the market. Six days of running 5 missions per day (and the Morality mission every second day), you get over a hundred million inf easily.

Really, it's much more fair than in real life, where unless you are born into a wealthy family or you get exceptionally lucky, you are unlikely to ever become rich.

Pretty much this. I stupendously easy to make inf now due to H and V merits.

It's just 4 days to get one of the high level recipes (or two days if you do enough tfs to get you 100 merits [2-3 tfs] and 40 mill inf).

Anyone complaining that they can't afford purples is looking sillier and sillier as time goes by. Issue 18 basically made so that ANYONE can get a purpled warsahde if, (and here is the part that some won't like), IF THEY PUT IN THE TIME!

Getting purples is NOT meant to be fast. Sorry eryq2, but you don't have a leg to stand on in this discussion. The devs have pretty much given their say by how many merits they make a purple recipe cost. Even if they cut the current V/H merit cost in HALF for purples it still leads to the undenible conclusion that (drum-roll please) Getting purples is NOT meant to be fast!

And given that it was originally stated that purples wouldn't be buyable with merits because purples should cost more than the merit cap, we're getting them stupendously cheaply with A-merits.

Although of course I'm confidently expecting to purple my warshade purely with the drops I'll be getting in the next few weeks. Anecdotes don't lie.

I AM THE CASUALLY PURPLED WARSHADE! FEAR ME!



Yeah, I am surprised they haven't added Purples to the Reward Merit Vendor now.

With a purple costing 20 A-merits that would be 1000 Reward Merits to my math thinking (1 a-merit gets 5 random recipe rolls, 100 r-merits get 5 random recipe rolls)

Khhhhhaaaaaaaaaannnnnnnn!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I think I'd value them a bit more highly than that. By direct purchase, 20 A-merits = 1000 merits + 400 million inf. And an A-merit recipe purchase is up to a 5 fold discount over regular merits (1-2 A-merits v. up to 250 regular merits). So, hmm...

Some big number of merits :-)

I debated counting buying a-merits with merits but decided to simply go with the earned ones from tip missions since I cannot buy reward merits and have to run missions to get them (except for the exploration ones).

I figure as a factor of time I can actually earn my a-merit slightly faster than 50 reward merits (solo).

Pretty much, yeah. I've gone with a slightly more "hardcore" version of this by running 5 characters through the tip treadmill every day, and it has allowed me to completely purple out my main in just over 40 days, combined with a few nice purple drops. I'm no player of the market, either. I pay the buy it nao price pretty much always. Inf is just stupidly easy to make these days.

um...
1 a-merit = 100 r-merits
Therefore: 20 a-merits = 1000 r-merits ????

Did you mean 2,000?

1 a-merit= 50 r-merits + 20 million inf

I got an Apocalypse triple from a Trick or Treat mob last night. That more than made up for the lame rare recipe from the Power Hungry badge.

No. Pay attention to the CONTEXT. He was not referring to the cost to buy them. He was referring to the VALUE of what they could purchase. His comparison used the number of random rolls granted as the basis for comparison:

"With a purple costing 20 A-merits that would be 1000 Reward Merits to my math thinking (1 a-merit gets 5 random recipe rolls, 100 r-merits get 5 random recipe rolls)"

His calculation in 'random roll equivalents' is that an A-Merit is worth 100 R-Merits. But then he stated that 20 A-Merits are worth 1000 R-Merits. I pointed out that it should have been 2000 R-Merits.