Farming recipes at level 10 (yeah, I know)?

I have a couple of characters level-locked at 10 from my old "Perfect 10" project.

I understand that farming for recipes at level 10 is extremely inefficient (and the selection is pretty narrow too). I mostly do this to amuse myself.

The Inherent Stamina change should have significant impact on my level 10 builds; I am re-examining which AT and powersets to use for this (previously I mostly used a Kat/Regen Scrapper for the Divine Avalanche and Quick Recovery).

To date I have been using AE to farm tickets (yes, in case you're wondering, it does in fact take a level 10 a loooong time to save up for a gold roll).

Is there any other way of getting merits for rolls at level 10? Can't run tips that young (or even get tip credit while teamed); could join Oro merit arcs but can't start them (can't get to Oro); can start New Posi Part 1 if I can get two other players (I do have one buddy who sometimes joins me with his own 10), but New Posi Part 2 is level 11-16, so apparently that's out, and Part 1 only awards 11 merits (so 2 runs per gold roll). Any other ideas?

Fight Giant Monsters?

you can access a pillar in you SG base if you have one from level 1. Whether you can actually start any ouro stuff I don't know. I've been told you can but never actually tried it myself.

For what it's worth i'd be willing to lock a level 10 to run Posi TFs with you.

You can get recipes of any level you want with Hero/Villain Merits in Fort Trident/The Crucible if you use the level slider when buying specific recipes. If you choose the Random 5 Recipe rolls for 1 Merit, you can choose the level range of the recipes you get, but the recipes will actually be your own level or the max level of the recipe, whichever is lower.

For AE Ticket rolls, if you have your level 10 join an AE farm lead by a good farming character, you can get tickets at a really nice pace. That's likely the least painful and quickest way to do what you're trying to do.

It's not repeatable (on the same character) but I got enough zone exploration accolades on my level 2 to get 50 RMs, thus an Alignment Merit. (OK, 11 RMs were from vet badges.) Which I could have used for ... a wing recipe. At level 7 I rolled 5 randoms for 150 or 200 million inf worth of stuff. I went zone by zone in increasing order of level and I didn't die till Independence port.

You'll get really good at jetpacking from badge to badge in a leisurely manner.

Hrm. Sets have a minimum level, so level 1 (or 4 for Ninja/Beast Run) is as good as 10. Perhaps disposable Stalkers (for the Hide power) could run from badge to badge getting zone accolades, then throw in the vet merits, then grab $20 mill from e-mail, snag alignment merit, roll 5, delete.

Kind of a silly project.

You might consider going 'tank' instead and taking them to 18 for Burn. Run ambush farms at +0/x8, pop purples, and rake in your tickets.

What is it you're going for? BotZ -kb ios drop, but I can't think of any other high value recipes at 10.

This is a once-a-year deal, but I still have over a hundred merits on a level twelve character I played on the anniversary last year, when there were GMs being spawned en mass in the zones. The character wasn't even level locked -- I'd just rolled her up to try Blaster Dual Pistols. But the XP was pitiful, and the merits were great :-)

A mastermind is another archetype to consider for low-level farming. I generally bump my difficulty up pretty soon on them.

I thought the lowest level stealths were 15, so a level 10 would not be able to random roll those.

By level lock, I am assuming you guys turn off the XP then and run missions only for influence? Is that what you mean by level lock?