You have to do 10 tip missions followed by a morality mission to earn Hero or Villain merits.
More specifically, you have to re-confirm your alignment (i.e. you don't get a merit the first time you confirm your alignment or switch alignment) and you can't earn merits as a Rogue or Vigilante. Also, if you change alignments, you lose unspent merits you've earned.
You can "buy" Alignment Merits for 50 Reward Merits + 20 million Inf.
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On the reward side, 1 Hero Merit is actually worth 100 Reward Merits since you can cash in 1 Hero Merit for 5 random recipe rolls (which costs 20 Reward Merits x 5). OR, Hero Merits can be worth even more because you can buy a lot of the most desired recipes in the game for 1 or 2 Hero Merits -- many of the recipes that cost 2 Hero Merits can be purchased with 260 Reward Merits, making Hero Merits worth 130 Reward Merits.
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Originally Posted by virtue
I feel like a bit of a n00b asking this but..............
I've been playing this game for years and I've heard people talk of 'hero merits' and how they are worth 50 times what a normal merit is worth, but I've never received a hero merit. Am I doing something wrong? do you have to craft them? |
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You also can buy any Purple recipe with Alignment Merits (A-Merits), also known as Hero or Villain Merits respectively. For about 30 A-Merits you can get PvP recipes.
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Yes, you need to have GR to do a Morality Mission and reaffirm your alignment, which then gives you an a-merit.
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Originally Posted by Sailboat
Don't you have to have Going Rogue to spend A-merits?
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As long as you are not changing your alignment you get some sort of merit reward.
Hero/Villain:
1st Morality Mission = 50 reward merits
2nd+ Morality Missions = 1 Alignment Merit
Rogue/Vigilante:
1st Morality Mission changes your alignment
2nd Morality Mission confirming your current alignment = 30 reward merits
3rd+ Morality Missions = 60 reward merits
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Don't forget to warn people that changing alignments wipes out any Hero or Villain merits that they currently possess, so don't change alignment unless all their alignment merits are spent first.
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Originally Posted by Golden_Avariel
As long as you are not changing your alignment you get some sort of merit reward.
Hero/Villain: 1st Morality Mission = 50 reward merits 2nd+ Morality Missions = 1 Alignment Merit Rogue/Vigilante: 1st Morality Mission changes your alignment 2nd Morality Mission confirming your current alignment = 30 reward merits 3rd+ Morality Missions = 60 reward merits |
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With another warning that most ways to spend A-merits are time-gated to once every 20 hours. So if you have 4 Hero Merits, you'll need about 4 days to spend them on 20 random rolls, or 2 days days buying a pair of specific recipes.
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Originally Posted by PumBumbler
Don't forget to warn people that changing alignments wipes out any Hero or Villain merits that they currently possess, so don't change alignment unless all their alignment merits are spent first.
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Originally Posted by virtue
I feel like a bit of a n00b asking this but..............
I've been playing this game for years and I've heard people talk of 'hero merits' and how they are worth 50 times what a normal merit is worth, but I've never received a hero merit. Am I doing something wrong? do you have to craft them? |
And 1 Alignment Merit is worth 100 Reward Merits.
Far more than that if you consider you can buy things with them you'd never be able to with RMs.
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Originally Posted by PumBumbler
Don't forget to warn people that changing alignments wipes out any Hero or Villain merits that they currently possess, so don't change alignment unless all their alignment merits are spent first.
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It is also worth noting that using Alignment Merits to buy purples is highly inefficient both timewise and infwise.|
Originally Posted by Stormfront_NA
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You also can buy any Purple recipe with Alignment Merits (A-Merits) |
It requires 20 Alignment merits to purchase a purple recipe, and at 2 days per merit, you are looking at waiting 40 days to get that one purple (240 days for a single set unless you are going ahead and running multiple alts to each save up for a purple or two).
Alternatively, depending on market conditions and depending on the purple set you are after, you can often purchase (for 2 merits) a highly desirable recipe to craft and resell for what a single purple recipe may cost, with some cash left over. Going about it that way, you can have your 6 piece purple set in 12 days (or less if using multiple alts).
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The 40 days is not entirely correct, yuo can also once a day trade 50 merits and 20M for 1 A Merit as well, so technically every 4 days you can get 6 A-Merits. While time wise you can cut the 40 day to 14 days, the 13 A-Merits obtained thru merit and influence trade (650 merits and 260 million) is not likely cost effective as well.|
Originally Posted by Willowpaw
It is also worth noting that using Alignment Merits to buy purples is highly inefficient both timewise and infwise.
It requires 20 Alignment merits to purchase a purple recipe, and at 2 days per merit, you are looking at waiting 40 days to get that one purple (240 days for a single set unless you are going ahead and running multiple alts to each save up for a purple or two). Alternatively, depending on market conditions and depending on the purple set you are after, you can often purchase (for 2 merits) a highly desirable recipe to craft and resell for what a single purple recipe may cost, with some cash left over. Going about it that way, you can have your 6 piece purple set in 12 days (or less if using multiple alts). |
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What willowpaw said is ... variable. Some purple sets can be that inexpensive. Others (the desireable ones, so probably what you were looking for) are much, much more expensive. Might cost as much as 8 AM's worth of other recipes.
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I feel like a bit of a n00b asking this but..............
I've been playing this game for years and I've heard people talk of 'hero merits' and how they are worth 50 times what a normal merit is worth, but I've never received a hero merit. Am I doing something wrong? do you have to craft them?