A Brief Guide to Enhancement Converters

Any advice I'd give you right now might be inapplicable when things are correctly patched, because it's hard to predict what will happen. What I've seen in general is that prices on LotGs are rising, because merits (in particular, the super pack supply) is going into converters instead.

That said, let's look specifically at the Merits vs H/VAMs case. Your option for 200 merits is:

- 10 Random Rolls
- 1 LotG (or similar high priced recipe)
- Pay 80m to convert to H/VAMs to buy 20 Random Rolls or 2 LotGs

Let's say a LotG will sell crafted for 100M. Let's say you pay 10M in market fees + 6M in salvage, for a net 84M. This means your value is:

Buy with merits: 420k/merit
Convert to H/VAM, buy 2 with those: 440k/merit (84M * 2, minus 80M in conversion costs = 88M)

So you can determine that 100M is about the cutoff for a LotG-type recipe to be "worth it" to convert to H/VAMs first. That won't change no matter what happens.

Likewise, the value of random rolls can similarly be evaluated. I don't know about the value of a LotG vs 10 random rolls, since those are identical cost. But you can do the same math and realize that the value of 10 randoms must be 100M+ to justify converting to H/VAMs.

For Emps and A-merits we'll have to see post-patch. But right now, figure you can MAYBE net 310M on a purple post-crafting, figuring 350M - 35M for fees, -5M for salvage, and that's both a good price and cheap salvage, so perhaps optimistic. That's 7.75m per Emp.

For A-merits, you can do the same LotG math: 84M in net profits / 32 A-merits is 2.625m per Astral. Or, instead, you can get 1.666 converters for roughly the same price. (+250k per converter)

Right now, converters are clearly "worth more" than 1.8M, so at the moment, you'd definitely want them over Astral IOs.

But we just don't know what will happen to the market. Maybe people will convert so aggressively that LotGs/rolls will simply be better deals. Maybe LotG prices will rise because of converter demand, and make the relative value of buying IOs higher. That's why I'm only trying to show how to calculate relative value, because any rule of thumb could be invalidated by the market.

I just talked to them without issue. I was on an Incarnate if that might matter, with all current slots unlocked and a Rare slotted.

I honestly don't remember if Respecs were for sale before, but it seems new to me.

Edit: But yes, no converters, still.

The Ozone vendors are talking to me. What do you mean 'won't talk'? Do you get the blue hand?

Only if you take Prometheus to dinner befo...

No, stop. I won't stoop to such cheap, tawdry jokes.

I'm pretty sure they didn't sell respecs before

They've always been there.

The keep TopDoc down protocol, or didn't you think they might be worried that a few people with hordes of Hero Merits and recipes might totally destroy the market ? Not to rub salt here but you can still run the SSAs for regular merits. Anyone with as many alts as you claim should be able to accumulate hordes of merits in short order.

We'll get them eventually, I'm sure. This strikes me as a way to bleed the truly ridiculous number of RMs generated by super packs out of the system somewhat. The irony is that doing so is not just slowing down some of the crazy-making with purples, it's also creating more crazy-making with anything that's not purple/pvp by pushing people away from using their RMs for anything other than converters.

That's just a WAG, though. I'm not trying to understand the logic too much. I'm just logging in, playing, and continuing to get fake-rich. I figure the week that I don't re-position some alts to be in Fort Trident/Crucible will be when they finally push these out via other means than RMs.

I guess they weren't worried at all about hundreds or thousands of people with massive numbers of Reward Merits from Super Packs doing the same.

Run SSA #1 for 20 Reward Merits, which is 2 Converters. Or run it for 1 Alignment Merit which will probably be 10 Converters whenever the devs get around to fixing them. Hmm... Is 2 greater than or less than 10?

If Enhancement Converters aren't available at all of the vendors after the next patch, I get to start comparing them to the original CoP trial.

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I am fairly certain that the game doesn't care what drop pool the rare came from - or, frankly, that it's even Rare in some cases (e.g., I converted a Call of the Sandman into a Touch of Death acc/dam, which is uncommon, and then converted the ToD A/D into another rare). I did a bunch of random converting last night, because I got bored flipping purples and wanted to turn some of the junk random SGmates have stored over the years into more useful items. I can't remember whether it was a level 10 Erad Damage or ADR that I turned into a BotZ KB protection, but I know it was one of the two.