What to do with merits?

[Duck-Smokes-Quack]

Im not very good at markets, money etc - never had been

I am not looking to make Billions, just enough to slot up my main toon with a nice build.


What should i do with my mertis? Save and buy Purples/ATOs? Or should I be buying Converters and selling those for profit?

Whats a good reliable to way to turn merits into cash that even an idiot like me can grasp?

[Mr. Vee]

Whichever of converters or boosters offer the best money/merit going rate at the time you're selling. Ideally you'd like 300k/merit but i think prices have gone down to where that's not going to always happen. Note that selling bulk converters is rather mouse-intensive. Can always check the going rate to see if purples are a better return but those would likely move more slowly. Steadfast +def is only 20 merits iirc and goes for around 6 million so that could be an option but I wouldn't put all my eggs in that basket at once and expect full returns.

[Duck-Smokes-Quack]

17 minutes ago, Veelectric Boogaloo said:

Whichever of converters or boosters offer the best money/merit going rate at the time you're selling. Ideally you'd like 300k/merit but i think prices have gone down to where that's not going to always happen. Note that selling bulk converters is rather mouse-intensive. Can always check the going rate to see if purples are a better return but those would likely move more slowly. Steadfast +def is only 20 merits iirc and goes for around 6 million so that could be an option but I wouldn't put all my eggs in that basket at once and expect full returns.

Hmmmm maybe im just best off buying the things I want with merits then just running missions until i can afford the rest of the yellows/oranges

[Sakai]

I personally just save my merits and buy what I want but it is easy for me to say as I am Ebil and sitting on a pile of influence. 

 

The option to trade for converters and then convert things is very lucrative it seems. Personally not a fan as my experience has been, both Live and here,  that it is too much time spent clicking without defeating any baddies. 

 

Straight out selling converters is another option but I go honestly don't know what they go for these days. 

 

That probably isn't much help but it's how I roll. 

 

Regardless of what you do membership in the Ebil League of Ebil is a click away and everyone here is crazy helpful. 

 

Good luck and happy hunting. 

Edited January 18, 2020 by Sakai
just cause...

[Mr. Vee]

yeah i personally just use them for whatever boosters a toon needs and they've usually acquired enough by 50 to buy their own. if you come up with something really good to use them on let us know as i've got >9000 sitting around on alts doing nothing because you have to swim clear to the other side of the uncle scrooge inf pool to get to my merit station.

[Redlynne]

3 hours ago, Duck-Smokes-Quack said:

What should i do with my mertis?

Either slot up an alternate build or actually roll up an alt and slot them up with whatever they need ...

[Dazl]

Be careful what you buy with them like enhancements. Buying enhancements for 100 merits is kind of a waste unless you can not find it in the AH. Turning that 100 merits into converters will get you more inf than what the enhancement probably cost on the AH.

[Duck-Smokes-Quack]

7 hours ago, Sakai said:

I personally just save my merits and buy what I want but it is easy for me to say as I am Ebil and sitting on a pile of influence. 

 

The option to trade for converters and then convert things is very lucrative it seems. Personally not a fan as my experience has been, both Live and here,  that it is too much time spent clicking without defeating any baddies. 

 

Straight out selling converters is another option but I go honestly don't know what they go for these days. 

 

That probably isn't much help but it's how I roll. 

 

Regardless of what you do membership in the Ebil League of Ebil is a click away and everyone here is crazy helpful. 

 

Good luck and happy hunting. 

How does one join the Ebil league?

Is there a way to make money for idiots like me? Or do you just know enough about the game to snipe things cheap and sell high?

[Sakai]

Seems to me there is a guide or two or three or four out there. Pretty sure most of them involve converting. 

 

I base my efforts upon things I would be ok getting stuck with 30 of if the Market drops out as that does happen periodically. You can never have enough Kismets, LoTGs or  Glad Procs after all

 

Knowledge of what people want is of course useful. Honestly though, the stuff you want is what everyone else wants too. 

 

Flipping is a valid lifestyle choice.....easy money to be had.  Or Market Price Analyser and Correction Specialist  if you prefer. 

 

Another option is the Slotting an ATO, making it Superior, unslotting and selling for mad cash method.  This requires a 50 of whatever type and you do run the risk that you will forget to slap in new enhancements for yourself to actually use. 

 

It happens.....trust me. 

 

If you have the influence for it, gambling on hero/villian/winter packs is another. Too rich for my blood but people seem to do pretty well with it.  

 

Hmmm...think that's it but probably missing a few.

 

Lots of ways to make influence off the sweat of others. Takes a bit of work initially to figure out your prices, but once you do the patterns wil begin to emerge and you just sort of roll along earning as much as you want. 

 

 

 

Edited January 19, 2020 by Sakai
cause I like to edit stuff.

[EmperorSteele]

Unslotters are a decent option, too. They typically go for about 150K, depending on timing and supply.

Once you've made some money (like over 100Mil), a slow but steady path is to buy up Super packs (Heroes and Villains or Rouges and Vigilantes; avoid the winter pack as they go for 25m each), open them up, and sell what you can. The ATOs go for about 7.5-9 Million each, though the Brute ones will easily sell at 11/12 million. Then you get stuff like unslotters, converters, boosters and catalysts that you can sell, also. In addition, you get Brain Storm Ideas in stacks of 20, which can be crafted into Rare Salvage and sold for about 500k each. And finally, you'll get merits in stacks of 25, allowing you to buy more stuff to sell! A 10Mil Pack can be worth almost double its value if you're lucky... but if you're unlucky, you won't get ANYTHING to sell, instead getting respecs, free tailor sessions and hour-long boosts.

One neat thing you can get is the "Windfall" temp power, which can't be sold/traded, but increases your inf rewards and chances for rare drops while playing. So while you can't sell it, you can activate it and marathon a few TFs, hopefully walking away with several million inf and maybe a purple recipe by the end!

I usually get 5 packs at a time, and get on average 7 ATOs out of the deal, plus several of the other things. The ATOs even me out, and the extras (boosters, unslotters, etc) are the gravy that are pure profit. If you're willing to forgo profit, then you can use that stuff for your alts and save them the cost 😃

Edited January 19, 2020 by EmperorSteele

[Fan Mail]

The only thing I do with Merits is buy Converters and sell them.  I then take this INF and get my characters the good stuff.  I attest that having ATOs or even IOs vs just SOs is a huge difference.  SOs are for Heroes and Villains and are totally fine themselves.  But ATOs/IOs make your characters Legendary.  Many of which you can slot starting at level 7. 

Edited January 22, 2020 by tafilr

[seebs]

You can do better than "buy converters and sell them", but you can't do all that MUCH better usually, so it's pretty reasonable to just leave it at that.

[Yomo Kimyata]

At this point, I rarely spend merits at all and I tend to use them for unslotters or catalysts or boosters.  Everything generally is cheaper in terms of inf on the AH.

[MunkiLord]

I just cash them in for converters since I make almost all my influence converting in set.

[Haijinx]

If you want a simple system..

 

Earn Merits

Buy Enh Converters with merits

Sell Enh Converters 

Buy IOs 

 

You can for example buy many more IOs with the money you make off Converters than if  you bought the IOs with merits.

 

Those people buying converters off you to convert IOs and playing the market are making MORE but that leaves the realm of simple.  

 

You can make hundreds of millions even casually playing just doing the simple way. 

 

 

[tidge]

On 1/24/2020 at 3:25 PM, Yomo Kimyata said:

At this point, I rarely spend merits at all and I tend to use them for unslotters or catalysts or boosters.  Everything generally is cheaper in terms of inf on the AH.

This is my attitude as well (although if I am not in my SG base, I will buy unslotters too). Many blessings upon those who fill the marketplace with things to buy!

 

The only other thing I'll do with merits (if I'm really bored) is buy specific tip missions.

[Sakai]

You can buy Tip missions with Merits?  At the same place you normally spend them?

[Tidbit]

I spend them almost exclusively on enhancement boosters.  I get enough unslotters from superpacks, converters from the market and catalysts from farming.

[tidge]

On 1/30/2020 at 9:30 PM, Sakai said:

You can buy Tip missions with Merits?  At the same place you normally spend them?

You can buy Tip missions in a SG base using a mission monitor board (I think that is what it is called).

[Saikochoro]

I think you can go a couple routes. 
 

The easy way is to just buy converters and then sell them on the market and use that money to buy the enhancements you want. Will almost always be cheaper than buying the recipes with merits. 
 

The slighty more time consuming way is to buy converters, buy uncommon recipes, craft and convert into expensive IOs to make even more money. 
 

I think both ways are more cost effective than buying the recipe with merits. Converters usually go for between 75-90k. So each merit is worth 225k - 270k. 

[Obus Form]

Usually converters, but sometimes you can do 1 shot with a winter IO thats low, or purple (Armageddon usually sells fast, check before buying)