Cooperative Merit Rewards

Overview

Issue 13 introduced Merit Rewards, which included a reworking of the reward system to obtain Invention Recipes from Task Forces, Trials, and Story Arcs.

Task Forces give an average of 1 merit every 5 minutes of average time (12 merits an hour), Trials give an average of 1 merit every 4.5 minutes (13-14 merits an hour), and Story Arcs give an average of 1 merit every 12.5 minutes (4-5 merits an hour). The reason for this major difference is due to the considerable time and effort Task/Strike Forces can take to set up and complete, so naturally these tasks grant a much greater reward.

For the following summaries, there are various options that an activity can involve, as follows:

• Door Missions: An instanced mission that only teammates can enter.
  • Defeat All: Requires defeating all enemies in the instance.
• Talks: Deliver information or items to or obtain information or items from an NPC other than the contact.
  • In a regular Story Arc, only the mission holder may complete the talk mission.
  • In a Task Force, Strike Force, or Trial, anyone on the team may complete the talk mission, not just the mission holder.
• Hunts: Defeat enemy critters, sometimes restricted to a particular zone.
  • Ambushes of the required enemy faction often accompany hunt missions.
• Patrols: Explore a zone by "calling in" at (clicking on) specific items, including pay phones and other items.
• Contains tough enemy critters:
  • EB: Contains an Elite Boss, which does not upgrade into an Archvillain/Hero, even when Notoriety and team size is high enough.
  • AV: Contains an Archvillain/Hero, which may or may not downgrade into an Elite Boss, depending on Notoriety and team size.
    • AVs in most Task Forces, Strike Forces, and Trials do not downgrade.
    • Ouroboros Task Forces and Strike Forces are Story Arcs that utilize the TF function, thus AVs/etc. will downgrade like in a Story Arc.
  • Monster: Contains a Monster, whose defeat is usually required to advance the story.
  • GM: Contains a Giant Monster, whose defeat is usually not required to advance the story.

Cooperative Task Forces

Additional Task/Strike Forces: Hero Merit Rewards, Villain Merit Rewards

Name	Merits	Contact	Summary
Time's Arrow	26	Imperious	4 Door Missions, 22+ EBs, 6 AVs
Lady Grey Task Force	37	Lady Grey	5 Door Missions, 11 EBs, 4 AVs

Rikti War Zone Story Arcs

Name	Merits	Contact	Summary
Welcome to Vanguard	9	Levantera	5 Door Missions, 1 Hunt, 6 Talks
The Strange Case of Benjamin A Decker	3	Levantera	3 Door Missions, 1 Talk
Dreams of Peace and Acts of War	9	Serpent Drummer	7 Door Missions, 2 Talks, 1 AV
The Red and the Black	14	Gaussian	6 Door Missions, 1 EB, 1 AV
The Horror of War	18	The Dark Watcher	6 Door Missions, 5 AVs

See Also

• Merit Rewards
• Hero Merit Rewards
• Villain Merit Rewards
• Miscellaneous Merit Rewards