Meriting Stats Question

[Asir]

I haven't reached that far in the game yet but I am constantly curious about how meriting works. I know if I merit max HP and MP, it affects my other jobs but was wondering if meriting the other stats, DEX, AGI, STR, CHR, VIT, etc would affect my other jobs as well. I plan to level a few mage and melee jobs to 75 so would like to plan in advance which stats to improve that would help both.

[Tirrock]

Re: Meriting Stats Question

Stat merits are usable by all your jobs. Only level 75 job specific merits don't give bonuses to all your jobs.

You can merit one stat up to five times, or any combination of stats up to five. It costs three merits to upgrade the first stat, and three more for each addition upgrade in that same stat, up to nine.

If you wanted to max out STR, it would cost 3 + 6 + 9 + 9 + 9 merits, or 360,000 exp.

The first upgrade of merits are available at level 10, so at level 10 you'd only have +1 STR even if you had five STR merits. You can use higher upgrades of merits as you level.
Level 20 - level 2 merits. Level 30 - level 3. Level 40 - level 4. Level 50 - level 5. Level 55(?) - level 6. Level 60 - level 7. Level 65 - level 8. (I'm a bit unsure if it starts going by 5's at 55 or 65.)

Stats are generally merited last due to their lack of impact for their massive cost. +5 STR doesn't make or break a melee, neither does +5 INT to a BLM. Crit hit rate has a large impact on damage dealt, and MP merits are awesome if you're leveling lower level PLD/DRK/BRD/BST.