Reward merits

[Frosty15]

what is the best way to turn reward merits into influence?

[Intrinsic]

Use the merits to buy special salvage like enhancement converters or boosters, or buy Winter-Os (can't remember their name on the reward vendor atm).

[tidge]

Winter (and other Event) pieces, level 50 PVP Recipes, and Purple Recipes are 100 merits at merit vendors. Those items cane be sold (and/or crafted and then sold) on the AH.

 

1 Booster requires 5 Merits, 1 converter requires (effectively) one-third of a merit. Catalysts require 20 merits each, but lets ignore those since they regularly drop(*1)

 

The 'rosetta stone' for merits->inf is probably converters, since they are in high demand.

 

So if a converter is 50 kInf on the AH (or 150k-per-merit), the "100 merit items" would have to cost more than 15 MInf (not counting the 10% charge at the AH for selling) to yield better return than converters, the 20 Merit items would have to be selling for more than 3 Minf to be a better deal than converters (for selling).

[Andreah]

If you are patient selling converters, you can do a little better, but 50k is a good rule of thumb. We've had persistent slow price deflation in the game, so most things you could spend merits on are poor deals compared to buying them on the market, except, as noted above, converters, sometimes boosters, sometimes unslotters, and most Winter-O's.