Quick question. I cant find the answer anywhere yet.
Do we merit earth and wind accuracy for red mage? and slow 2 dia 3 and paralyze 2?
Thanks in advance
It depends on where you want to excel. Everyone will most likely give you some varying opinions.
Ice accuracy is good for Paralyze II/Bind
Wind accuracy is good for Silence/Gravity II
Earth Accuracy is good for Slow II
Convert merits have validity for solo mostly, but aren't horrible to have in general if you feel they would help you.
Personally I like to steer my RDM more towards enfeebling.
I have 5/5 in Ice Accuracy and 5/5 in Wind Accuracy, landing Silence on some mobs can be very helpful, and I feel Paralyze II is a very uner-rated spell.
As far as Tier 2 merits, I have 3/5 in Dia III, with only 1 merit it only lasts 30 seconds. 36 seconds with the Relic Head augment.
But at 3/5 it last 1 minute and 48 seconds with the relic head augment. Which I find very helpful since I don't have to babysit Dia III as much and focus on other spells more, which RDM has plenty of.
I also have 5/5 in Paralyze II
1 in Blind II
1 in Slow II
Bio III is really only worth is for solo kiting, and Phalanx II isn't really worth doing unless you planning on going at least 4/5 or 5/5, and even have 5/5 it's not much more powerful than normal Phalanx. You just get to cast it on other people. Which if you really wanna do that, you could just /sch and Ascession normal Phalanx.
That's my personal opinion about RDM merits, my two cents.