WHM Merits

We got no White Magic and no Ninjutsu on same floor, F80 Cerberus... Yeah, that's pretty brutal. We managed to get it down to about 15% even with that happening. our BLU had to change spell-set and try to do what she could to keep people alive.

I agree with this for the most part.

If you're not fighting HNM's or Ultima, you don't really need the Bar Spell merits and can go Cure Cast time instead. Remember, the Bar spell merits gives an added overall Magic Defense Bonus +2 for each level for a max of +10 when it's at lvl 5. This is GREAT for Ninja Mijin Gakure in Dyna as well.

Shellra V is similar to your Bar Spell merit. It's very situational and only useful on big HNM's or Ultima with a 'semi-usefulness' in Dynamis. Shellra V going from lvl 1 to 5 isn't THAT big of an increase tbh. You get ~24.2% with lvl 1 Shellra V and ~27.34% with lvl 5 Shellra V. If you're taking a 1000 dmg hit, you're going to take 758 dmg w/ lvl 1 Shellra V and 727 dmg w/ lvl 5 Shellra V. That's a difference of a whopping 31 dmg for a 1000 dmg hit. If you really want to max it, go for it. It's not going to be a huge difference that you'll notice though.

Protectra V is similar as well. You get 60 defense with lvl 1 and 68 defense with lvl 5. Get lvl 1, don't really worry about maxing it.

I do agree that Regen is very useful and maxing it is a good idea.

As for the Devotion/Martyr merits... I'd unlock both first and decide later how each of them impacts your play style / events you do.

For general merits... I wouldn't bother throwing anything in Mnd unless you're Rdm and focus primarily on enfeebling with Para/Slow/Silence/etc. A couple extra Mnd will NOT be useful on your Whm. If you do lvl Blm and Sch to 75, maxing your Int will be MUCH more valuable.

Looks like you're primarily focusing on jobs that could benefit from Enmity -, so that would be a good idea.

I'd stay away from the Combat / Magic skills until you have other jobs that can use them. Whm doesn't really benefit from them.

Because if it were a merit all Whm's would have it maxed at 5% along with Regen at 5hp/tic. Then you'd have people choosing Whm over other mages for healing! /gasp!

Depends how much you usually die and what events you do.

If you're capped exp, it's not hard to recap it again.

However a lot of people think 10k is good enough buffer to start getting merits. Because merits make you 75.

umm barspell has no effect on mijin gakure and + mnd has a big effect on cure 5 potency.

Techincally, as WHM, you should always be able to keep RR3 on yourself, so your personal EXP loss shouldn't be bad, but then again, 12k is not a huge buffer for Windy...

Then again, I was on BLM for Dynamis most of the time once I got it to 75.

Since you can do dynamic LP/EXP changing nowadays, I'd say take at least 3-5k EXP, then switch it. Continue to do that every time you merit until you're capped EXP.

If you get at least 3 merits, I'd say your best spent merit for Dynamis will be Devotion, even if it's just 1/5 for now. Regen merits will help, as would CCT, but being able to refill a PLD's MP in an endurance event like Dynamis is huge, even if it's only every once in a while.

No but the added MDB with merited barspell potency DOES have an effect on mijin.

Yeah it's PT onry, but it's still nice to know you have it.
I don't know what linkshells die in Windy so often. Most I've died in Windy is once, out of 3 linkshells.

That Thf pull macro that says "PULLING TOMBSTONE NO RESTING!" shouldn't be tested, lol. Get yo *** up!

Meriting enfeebling magic could be useful too, especially if you want to level rdm sometime. BLM could always use more enfeebling, and whm uses it sometimes.

Is repose enfeebling or divine?

The more I think about it just do some backasswards goofy merits so you don't have to share the same fate as me..Im always stuck on whm!

It's true, once a whm always a whm. Your only hope is to level pld, but then you suffer the same fate.