Vanguard merits

[Frostyblue]

I hear that vanguard merits can be converted to reward merits, is this true, and how do u do it?

 

Thank you all for the help

[Impish Kat]

Merit venders will make the conversion for you. 

 

There is one in most zones in proximity of WW.  There should also be one in RWZ.

[Frostyblue]

Thank you

[Healix]

I think 10 Vanguard Merits convert to 1 Reward Merit.

[Generator]

That's what I was seeing earlier today, 10:1.

[Chongda]

And now that all costume pieces are unlocked immediately, is there any other use for Vanguard Merits other than to turn them into Reward Merits?

[Steel Dancer]

For the ability to summon a honkingly huge giant Vanguard robot of course!

[Generator]

For the ability to summon a honkingly huge giant Vanguard robot of course!

 

Preach!

[GavinRuneblade]

can you get the vanguard inventory capacity upgrade more than once? 

[Generator]

1 hour ago, GavinRuneblade said:

can you get the vanguard inventory capacity upgrade more than once? 

Afaik that's just once per character.

[Ironblade]

Also, if you're just short a couple of incarnate shards, you can buy G'rai Matter incarnate component for 150 V-merits.  It's needed for some powers or can be converted to 1 incarnate shard.

 

I've already got the Vanguard Heavy, the increased storage, and a couple thousands V-merits left over.  But I was two shards short for a component to get one of my slots to tier 4.

[Greeno34]

4 hours ago, Ironblade said:

Also, if you're just short a couple of incarnate shards, you can buy G'rai Matter incarnate component for 150 V-merits.  It's needed for some powers or can be converted to 1 incarnate shard.

 

I've already got the Vanguard Heavy, the increased storage, and a couple thousands V-merits left over.  But I was two shards short for a component to get one of my slots to tier 4.

I'm always surprised to see that people use shard components.  I've always used thread stuff....have found it so much easier!

 

That said, I'm embarassed to say that I wasn't even aware of the Vanguard Heavy.  Hmmm...might have to do more MSR....if I can ever figure out why I only get 10 vanguard merits per run...

[Clave Dark 5]

On 5/27/2019 at 4:32 PM, Generator said:

That's what I was seeing earlier today, 10:1.

I thought I read here that was changed to 30:1?

[ZemyaSoldat]

1 minute ago, Clave Dark 5 said:

I thought I read here that was changed to 30:1?

It was changed, but after the post you quoted (which is dated end of May).

[Trademarked Name]

33 minutes ago, Greeno34 said:

I'm always surprised to see that people use shard components.  I've always used thread stuff....have found it so much easier!

 

That said, I'm embarassed to say that I wasn't even aware of the Vanguard Heavy.  Hmmm...might have to do more MSR....if I can ever figure out why I only get 10 vanguard merits per run...

You will only get 10 Vanguard Merits each run unless you get the MEMBER OF VANGUARD badge. Talk to Levantera in Rikti War zone to do the story arc. It's mostly just running around talking to people IIRC. If you're doing MSR without the member of vanguard badge, you are just keyboard mashing for nothing.

[Vanden]

53 minutes ago, Greeno34 said:

I'm always surprised to see that people use shard components.  I've always used thread stuff....have found it so much easier!

 

That said, I'm embarassed to say that I wasn't even aware of the Vanguard Heavy.  Hmmm...might have to do more MSR....if I can ever figure out why I only get 10 vanguard merits per run...

8 shards and a Notice of the Well is a pretty easy price to pay for your t3 alphas. For everything else, yeah, thread components are the better option. Especially t4 Alphas; 48 shards and two Notices is a big "no thank you" from me.

Edited September 9, 2019 by Vanden

[Ironblade]

1 hour ago, Greeno34 said:

I'm always surprised to see that people use shard components.  I've always used thread stuff....have found it so much easier!

 

That said, I'm embarassed to say that I wasn't even aware of the Vanguard Heavy.  Hmmm...might have to do more MSR....if I can ever figure out why I only get 10 vanguard merits per run...

I agree the threads are easier but I used up almost all of my threads getting all three level shifts ASAP.  I wanted to get my Alpha slot to T4 for the recharge boost and I was only 2 shards short.

 

And Rocketeur explained why you're not getting Vanguard merits.  Until you do the arc and get that badge, I think the odds of a Rikti dropping a merit is similar to the odds of dropping an enhancement, i.e. very low.  After you get the badge, it's much higher odds and it's 2 for a lieutenant and 3 for a boss.  During a mothership raid, every Rikti is guaranteed to drop 1 or more Vanguard merits (based on their rank).

[Crysis]

I do three things on all toons almost immediately after creation and hitting minimum level requirements.  It’s literally a checklist for every toon I build.

 

-Get someone to drop a Ouro near Ms. Liberty in Atlas.  Go to Ouro and get my own Ouro portal.

-Go use the Tunnel in Atlas to visit Night Ward, enter mansion, get badge for access to Midnight Club

-Go to RWZ and run Levantera’s mission and get the Vanguard Badge

 

With those three things, I can go anywhere and do anything and have ready access to travel abilities between missions/zones that otherwise would slow down play and/or negate the value of doing certain activities like the MSR runs.

 

 

[doc_miller]

11 hours ago, Crysis said:

 

-Go use the Tunnel in Atlas to visit Night Ward, enter mansion, get badge for access to Midnight Club

 

While I don't know for sure if you can do this at level 1, I've done it with a level 2 char.  There's nothing dangerous between the Tunnel drop and the mansion door, and no level gating on the badge.

[Lazarillo]

On 9/9/2019 at 1:51 PM, Vanden said:

8 shards and a Notice of the Well is a pretty easy price to pay for your t3 alphas. For everything else, yeah, thread components are the better option. Especially t4 Alphas; 48 shards and two Notices is a big "no thank you" from me.

It really depends a lot on the content you're doing.  If you focus a lot on iTrials and/or DA, Shards don't drop there, so you're likely to have a considerably smaller number of them, but a considerably greater number of Empyrean Merits and Thread-based components.  If you do all 'round content, especially if you do stuff that drops what you need for the Shard-related recipes, Shards are far and away more economical, as you need fewer per component when compared to Thread recipes, and you only need them for one slot.  Outside of the Incarnate specific content, Shards drop at about a 1:5 ratio compared to Threads, but are only needed at a ratio of 1:20 or so.

 

Speaking from my personal experience, of the 5 level 50s I've managed so far, all of them hit their biggest Incarnate speedbumps over a lack of Threads...I don't want to waste what I do get on my Alpha, if I can help it.

[Robotech_Master]

On 9/9/2019 at 1:59 PM, Greeno34 said:

I'm always surprised to see that people use shard components.  I've always used thread stuff....have found it so much easier!

Sure, it's easier. But you're going to get some Shard-related stuff anyway, and it's not useful for anything else, so you might as well put out the effort to get a little more so you'll have more Threads to use to build the other five Incarnate powers faster.