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Peregrine Falcon, are you sure you don't just have the Hide Recipes Missing Ingredients box checked on the drop down at the vendor? I can pull up all the prices for every recipe out there with a toon that has exactly zero merits on them.

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just did posi again for the first time since the change to minimum team size was changed for the spawns... and it is not solo friendly anymore....

I still hate this tf and 55 merits is not enough.

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What change to spawns?

Totally Subjective: Many here seem to be concerned about the 'difficulty' of getting the ski badges. IMO, and I don't wish to demean or disrespect the folks with their concerns, but there SHOULD be badges and achievements in-game that are more difficult to get. Making every badge, every achievement, every accolade obtainable with little to no effort by every single player on any type of toon demeans the value of having them in the first place. That is not something I want to see.

If we follow through on the logic of badges that can be bought somehow, rather than earned, why not allow my blaster to 'buy' all the healing badges, including empath? Seriously, it would be difficult & time consuming for him to get them, so why not?? Surely, you can see how the above completely devalues the accomplishment of those who earned the badges by actually completing the required tasks.

Heck, let's make the MoSTF badge buyable too while we're at it...

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Subjective Feedback:

Some recipes seem quite over-priced for what they do. For instance, why is the Blessing of the Zephyr -kb recipe cost more than the other -kb recipes? 75 is a sizable amount, and works well for the other -kb recipes.


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Because the other are Pool A rares, and that one is Pool C/D

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Which still makes little sense, since the recipes do the same exact thing.

Here's my two cents...

I started off with a negative impression of the merit system, mostly due to concerns about market availability, and feeling like we were getting nerfed due to the removal of the random roll.

However, after playing for a bit, I find myself forced to re-evaluate my position. I think the devs have overall done a good job with the system. The fact that I lost the random roll for running a KHTF, is far outweighed by the fact that when I run a longer TF I get a greater reward. Heck, a Positron run (which is not the nightmare that many think it is) is worth almost 3 random recipes now. That is awesome.

Add in the fact that now people with no time or inclination to run TF's also get merits, is just icing on the cake.

I think the only things the devs need to do at this point are the following:

* Reduce the merit reward DR timer from 24 hours to around 20. Much less hassle having to worry about exactly what time a TF was ended if a player wants to run another one the next night they are on.

* Buff redside rewards a bit. Too much of a disparity in overall rewards.

* Take a closer look at some of the merit prices for recipes. Much of it seems extremely arbitrary.

* DO NOT NERF MERIT REWARDS LIGHTLY! Please devs, do not start whacking merit rewards the moment average completion times for TF's start edging downwards. Simply because more players are running TF's that they used to avoid, times are going to go down. Don't punish players for being good!

Quick summary for those too lazy to read: Merits are good in my book.

Just thought I'd check in here.. Looking forward to your next run, Impyre!