Merit points

[Aldo]

With the last patch the merit point distribution has been enhanced, we can now raise the following stats categorically:

[HP/MP]
Max HP / Max MP

[Attributes]
STR/ DEX/ VIT/ AGI / INT / MND / CHR

[Combat Skills]
Hand-to-Hand Skill / Dagger Skill / Sword Skill / Great Sword Skill / Axe Skill / Great Axe Skill / Scythe Skill / Polearm Skill / Katana Skill / Great Katana Skill / Club Skill / Staff Skill / Archery Skill / Marksmanship Skill / Throwing Skill / Guarding Skill / Evasion Skill / Shield Skill / Parrying Skill

[Magic Skills]
Divine Magic Skill / Healing Magic Skill / Enhancing Magic Skill / Enfeebling Magic Skill / Elemental Magic Skill / Dark Magic Skill / Singing Skill / String Instrument Skill / Wind Instrument Skill / Ninjutsu Skill / Summoning Magic Skill

[Other Skills]
Enmity Increase / Enmity Decrease / Critical Hit Rate / Enemy Critical Hit Rate / Spell Interruption Rate

What are you going to choose?

[TheMidg]

Re: Merit points

Originally posted by Aldo
With the last patch the merit point distribution has been enhanced, we can now raise the following stats categorically:

[HP/MP]
Max HP / Max MP

[Attributes]
STR/ DEX/ VIT/ AGI / INT / MND / CHR

[Combat Skills]
Hand-to-Hand Skill / Dagger Skill / Sword Skill / Great Sword Skill / Axe Skill / Great Axe Skill / Scythe Skill / Polearm Skill / Katana Skill / Great Katana Skill / Club Skill / Staff Skill / Archery Skill / Marksmanship Skill / Throwing Skill / Guarding Skill / Evasion Skill / Shield Skill / Parrying Skill

[Magic Skills]
Divine Magic Skill / Healing Magic Skill / Enhancing Magic Skill / Enfeebling Magic Skill / Elemental Magic Skill / Dark Magic Skill / Singing Skill / String Instrument Skill / Wind Instrument Skill / Ninjutsu Skill / Summoning Magic Skill

[Other Skills]
Enmity Increase / Enmity Decrease / Critical Hit Rate / Enemy Critical Hit Rate / Spell Interruption Rate

What are you going to choose?

[tdh]

I've been out of the game for month now, due to travel.

How do you get Merit Points?

[Mephisto]

Once you get Lv75 you can continue to EXP and earn Merit points.

[kisada]

Sigh...

Dunno cause I'm currently leveling nin and trying to get the best things possible for it...

Definitely gonna go for HP and STR upgrades, but...

Combat skills I can go katana, scythe, or gsd... bleh

Magic I can go dark magic or ninjutsu... bleh

Other skills is probably the most difficult for me to decide. Enmity+ is probably awesome for nin (In an HNM LS where I may be needed as nin at times), then again it's probably bad for DRK ; ; Increased crit rates sound awesome as there aren't really any disadvantages for either job, and I'm also curious about spell interruption rate. Normally utsusemi is 100% interrupted if cast at the wrong time, but I'm not sure if this new merit skill may change it, and I don't want to waste points trying to find out.

If I had to decide today, I'd probably pick scythe+, ninjutsu+(unless the blms have problems landing bio on gods and such), and increased crits.

Any thoughts?

[Awntawn]

I have so much -HP shit from EQ anyways, adding it would seem like futile attempts... May just go MP+ for my RDM ;x

3 stats STR
6 weapons, 3 scythe 3 gsword
4 magic darkness, if allowed.
extra... 4 critical hits I suppose, but this is the last thing I'll ever raise... only 1% higher critical rate per increase? Honestly wtf is that >.>

[Aldo]

why split scythe and gsword though? seems a bit wasted, if i were to boost a weapon i'd go all out and give all points to it, still not sure if i want to put it in great sword or scythe.

[eraw]

Re: Merit points

I'm Galka so I'd put all 5 Hp/MP upgrades into my MP+. All 3 attribute upgrades into strength. All my magic upgrades into Dark Magic. Combat skills into Great Sword. And Other skills into increased critical hits.

[Lmnop]

the classical 'critical hit' has been ~5% and I'd say that +1% to that is a very big bonus....... well ok, it's a sucky small bonus unless you put 4 points into it.