Merit Points  

General Information

• Upon reaching level 75 in any job, Merit Points can be earned to further improve your character.
• You must then travel to Ru'Lude Gardens in Jeuno and talk to the Nomad Moogle in front of Maat to get the Limit Breaker so you can gain access to the Merit Points menu. Just pick the first choice when the Moogle asks you.
• A new menu option "Merit Points" will appear in the Status menu.
• This menu shows the current amount of Limit Points earned, Merit Points currently saved and available, and the categories available to spend Merit Points on.
• Under the Mode switch option, a character can switch between earning Experience, or Limit Points.
• Defeating Easy Prey or higher challenge monsters whilst in Limit point mode, earns Limit Points instead of Experience.
• After accumulating 10,000 limit points the character earns another Merit Point.
• Merits can be spent to improve many aspects of the character, including HP/MP, weapon/defensive/magic skills, and new job abilities.

• While the character can switch between Experience and Limit Point modes at any time, providing the character is currently on a level 75 job, Merit Points can ONLY be assigned when the character is in their Mog House.

• You can only spend Merit Points on categories and skills that the job you are currently set to can normally access. Therefore a 75 Ninja cannot spend Merit Points on String Instrument Skill, unless he first switches to 75 Bard.
• To add merit points to a skill, go to Menu > Status > Merit Points > Categories and then select the skill you wish to apply your merit points to. Select "Raise", and confirm the two messages to apply change.
• If you wish to undo Merit Points in a particular category/skill, you will not get back the points you have spent. To cancel a merited skill, access the merit point menu, select the skill you wish to undo, and select "Lower". You will need to go through two confirmation messages.

Effects of Raised Attributes

Merit points upgrades from the general categories take effect for any and all jobs that the player sets as their current Main Job, including jobs that are not yet level 75. More upgrades come into effect as the player's Main Job levels up, as shown in the table immediately below:

Categories

These categories can be upgraded regardless of which job you currently are, providing it is 75.

Hit Points and Magic Points

• HP and MP can be upgraded a maximum of 8 times in total. However, because they are the same general category this means you cannot raise them both the maximum number of times. For example, you can upgrade HP 8 times, MP 8 times or any combination totalling eight upgrades (5 HP, 3MP)
• Costs per upgrade (1:2:3:4:5:5:5:5)

• Max MP: +10 MP per upgrade
• Max HP: +10 HP per upgrade

Character Attributes

• Attributes can be upgraded a maximum of five times, this can be all in one statistic, or any combination totalling five.
• Costs per upgrade (3:6:9:9:9)

• Strength: Strength is raised by +1 point per upgrade
• Dexterity: Dexterity is raised by +1 point per upgrade
• Agility: Agility is raised by +1 point per upgrade
• Vitality: Vitality is raised by +1 point per upgrade
• Charisma: Charisma is raised by +1 point per upgrade
• Intelligence: Intelligence is raised by +1 point per upgrade
• Mind: Mind is raised by +1 point per upgrade

Magic Skills

• Magic Skills can be upgraded a maximum of 8 times per skill, with a maximum total of 16 upgrades in this category.
• Costs per upgrade (1:2:3:3:3:3)

• Blue Magic: +2 skill points per upgrade
• Dark Magic: +2 skill points per upgrade
• Divine Magic: +2 skill points per upgrade
• Elemental Magic: +2 skill points per upgrade
• Enfeebling Magic: +2 skill points per upgrade
• Enhancing Magic: +2 skill points per upgrade
• Healing Magic: +2 skill points per upgrade
• Ninjutsu: +2 skill points per upgrade
• Singing Skill: +2 skill points per upgrade
• String Instrument Skill: +2 skill points per upgrade
• Summoning Magic: +2 skill points per upgrade
• Wind Instrument Skill: +2 skill points per upgrade

Combat Skills

• Increasing Combat Skills will not allow the character to obtain Weapon Skills that are not available to the job in question, but raising Daggers skill on your Black Mage job will allow you to access Dancing Edge a few levels sooner when you're leveling your Thief.
• This category may be upgraded 20 times in total.
• Cost per upgrade (1:2:3:3:3:3:3:3)

Melee Skills

• Melee Skills may be upgraded a maximum of 8 times per skill.

• Archery: +2 skill points per upgrade
• Axe: +2 skill points per upgrade
• Club: +2 skill points per upgrade
• Dagger: +2 skill points per upgrade
• Great Axe: +2 skill points per upgrade
• Great Katana: +2 skill points per upgrade
• Great Sword: +2 skill points per upgrade
• Hand-to-Hand: +2 skill points per upgrade
• Katana: +2 skill points per upgrade
• Marksmanship: +2 skill points per upgrade
• Scythe: +2 skill points per upgrade
• Polearm: +2 skill points per upgrade
• Staff: +2 skill points per upgrade
• Sword: +2 skill points per upgrade

Defense Skills

• Defense Skills may be upgraded a maximum of 4 times per skill.

• Evasion: +2 skill points per upgrade
• Guarding Skill: +2 skill points per upgrade
• Parry Skill: +2 skill points per upgrade
• Shield Skill: +2 skill points per upgrade

Other Skills

• Upgrades to these categories may be obtained by spending 1 point for the first upgrade, 2 for the second, 3 for the third and 4 for the fourth.
• You may upgrade each of the following 4 times maximum, but the entire category may be upgraded a total of 8 times.

• Critical Hit Rate: +1% per upgrade
• Enemy Critical Hit Rate: -1% per upgrade
• Enmity Decrease: -1 per upgrade
• Enmity Increase: +1 per upgrade
• Spell Interruption Rate: -2% per upgrade

Job-Specific Skills/Abilities

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