lusty bridge
I love, love, love that alignment merits are tradeable now; it's invaluable in helping me maximize my resources and make sure I don't have scattered characters with one or two merits that they can't use. I would ask that the same treatment be given to reward merits; even more than alignment, I often end up with odd remainders of un-spendable merits across 10 toons that are wasted unless and until I can consolidate them.
tiny stratus
Only yesterday I was musing about the same thing - like how alignment merits are tradable between toons but other merits and AE-tickets aren't. While it's ok that alignment merits are tradable to other players maybe there is an option to set other merits to Account-wide so you can at least trade them between your alt toons on the same account. That would already help I guess. Especially AE-tickets. I mean the AE-Creation Slots are account-wide - so a part of AE is already sort of a "shared between toon of the same account" thing. So why not also make the Tickets tradeable between the toons on the account...
crimson karma
My personal thought on this: If we were to do this, then we'd have to at the minimum remove the free merits granted through Paragon Rewards. In a way, that would allow someone to theoretically farm infinite merits at a merit/hour rate far surpassing any actual TF in the game.
white vortex
My personal thought on this: If we were to do this, then we'd have to at the min...
Seconded.
tiny stratus
I do sort of understand the part with the "remove merits from paragon rewards" but I sort of don't get the part with the infinite merits/hour rate surpassing TFs ....
white vortex
Reward merits in the reward tree are account items, claimable on every character on an account. Once you reach a certain point in the rewards tree, you could theoretically go through a creation/deletion cycle claiming reward merits and the mailing them to yourself. This cycle could extend until you hit the cap (no, I don't know what it is of the top of my head) and wouldn't take too long if you're using the same name and random costumes.
Reward merits from activities are generally balanced around the following scales (average completion time on SO build @ base difficulty):
Story Arc: 8 merit/hr
TaskForce: 20 merit/hr
Trials: 24 merit/hr
tiny stratus
So IF the merits would be made tradeable the paragon reward ones would have to be removed to make gaining merits throughout the game more worthwhile
or made character items so they'd be claimable only once
upbeat mural
I'd rather keep the Paragon Rewards tree as it is. I'm not sure I understand when the OP refers to spare unusable merits. Can't any character run more content to gain enough merits to buy stuff that is tradeable?
viral violet
You're talking about the 15-ish that you get per character? I'd honestly be willing to make that trade (maybe replace them with larger one-time rewards instead), as someone with chronic alt-itis. I hate having small amounts on multiple characters just because I enjoy playing different builds, so my rewards all get spread around.
crimson karma
Personally, I don't even know WHY those are there. They were never enough to really get anything more than a couple SOs
viral violet
Yeah, they're not of much utility by themselves, so changing them to 50/60/70 1-time rewards and making merits tradable would be my preference