Regular merits: convert to HM or random roll?

So, I'm happy with my random Hero Merit rolls... I've picked up my fair share of big ticket items in addition to a lot of 10-20million recipes. The batch I bought from Fulmens had a nice mix with a few 100m crafted items mixed in with "crap"TM

Question for the market experts... I have been running task forces and picking up regular merits off things like the explore accolades and initial tips / second run in a week of signature story arc etc. Should I be converting these to hero merits and random rolling on the hero merit tables or just go to a regular merit vendor and random rolling there? What's the common wisdom on this choice?

Canine has the math right, but IMX, 2.5 rolls is worth considerably more than 20m inf. It is luck-based, but if you're strapped for cash and need inf guaranteed RIGHT NOW, I find it's still far better to convert the merits and buy a Kinetic Combat than anything 50 reward merits could get you. The only exception would be if you don't have (and can't quickly get) the 20m you'd need to convert.

My feeling is that HM's are always better. (I'm trying to destroy as much inf as possible, and encourage other people to destroy as much inf as possible, but that isn't, actually, why I'm giving this advice. )

You trade 20 million inf for an extra 2.5 rolls. The market values one random roll at about 15-20 million inf if you're willing to craft. In a perfectly efficient market, which in our case we have not got, the price for thirty random recipes [about 600 million, maybe more if they're a hard-to-get level] and the price of six one-merit recipes [about 450 million] and the price of three two-merit recipes [about 360 million] would be about the same.

So two and a half recipes are worth, say, 30 to 50 million. Well worth the price, I think.

I'll tell you a week after I22 goes live.

So random is random(tm) ... converted and rolled, got an oblit quad and a numina unique and a few low teen million recipes. Well worth the 20m I think.

Pretty much what Hyperstrike said. Making Hero Merits out of reward merits IS an inf destroyer (20 million a shot.) I love it.

Ok, I see where you're coming from - and obviously, with marketing savvy, you're not likely to run out of inf any time soon, regardless.

So, essentially - the devs have a strange thing to deal with - there's about 10% of the population with 90% of the inf. They can't price conversions (inf burners) too high, or the 90% of the population won't be able to afford, or would be unwilling to pay the price.

Probably the best solution is to limit every toon's ability to earn inf - and once a toon reaches that amount - it stops earning it.

Instead of a toon having a set amount - inf earned would be account based, rather than character based.

Obviously, what that cap would be would require a lot of thought.

... and buying Hero Merits with Reward Merits + inf is a perfect solution. You can either buy something with [say] "100 RMs plus 40 million inf" or "200 RMs" [roughly] so if you don't have the inf you have another option.

Even if 90% of the population DOES have 10% of the inf, that's not going to block them from converting to HMs. 100 trillion (estimated inf), 10% of that is 10 trillion, 90% of the population is (very generously) 100,000 people, so the 90% have an average of 100 million inf each.

Limiting the amount of inf a character can earn is already in place, has been from the start...2 billion and no more.

Organica did a test by converting r merits to hero merits and then a random roll. if I remember correctly, her average profit for random roll is 77 mil. 77-20 = 57 or 1 mil / r merit. can you average 1 mil profit with random rolls at the merit vendor? from my test, rolls at the merit vendor yield 250-500k / r merit. I would convert r merits to alignment merits.