Option 1: Solo on bst for your merits, I believe, generally speaking with lower to mediocre gear, bst would beat pld in meriting solo.
Option 2: Deck out your DD set for PLD, it needs to be pristine though...then build your own Mis or 66 sync dvucca pt's.
Option 3: Make a manaburn merit pt and be the puller, could potentially do on either bst or pld, bst would be better though.
Option 4: Check the Buy/Sell section of these forums and buy a leech spot in dynamis buburimu. Lowest I've seen is 200k a run, but honestly if you fish you could get that in 2-3 hrs. The draw to this is think about your overall time, 2-3 hrs of farming + 90 min dyna = 10 merits guaranteed. Solo'ing on bst or pld you would be lucky to get 1-2 merits per hr. Drawback to this option is finding a group then finding a time that works for everyone involved.
Option 5: Make friends with 2 really good heavy DD for misereaux merit pt's. Might be your egls, social ls, whatever, but honestly 2 decked out dd's can easily carry a 3rd.

If you want to go DD PLD go /war, way more damage than /nin. Probably need a PL to keep you alive though, lol.

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Lots of good information ty friends.

200-300k for 10 merits I think I would be so down

Level COR or BRD if you miss parties.

Farm and use the gil to buy merits if you just want merits. You can also just find two great carries, a rdm and a brd and they'll basically XP the same with or without you.

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Define "best."

Also, this should probably be moved to the Paladin Job section of the forums since it's specific to that job.

I second this post.

If it's there, use the dyna leech however some people are charging 400k if your LS is not running it. I would recommend getting another job to 75 if you're not farming for Dyna leeches, and check option #2 below ... this might interest you.

1. Bard obviously however you'll have to pull so depends on your play style. I don't recommend pulling for more than 4 hours to keep your sanity
2. Corsair popular and people will take you even if you don't do damage /sigh Friends told me that you can sit out dyna lines and people might take you for Corsair skillz
3. RDM - can't go wrong
4. DD: My war gets a lot of love 65~75, so War or Sam. I prefer War because I can voke and tank fine in Mire or merit parties. Dmg is still awesome. Sam is OP.
5. My DRG gets a lot of love 65~75 as well

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WAR75, DRG75, BRD75, THF75, BST67, RNG64, PLD60, NIN49, RDM 47, DRK37, WHM32, SMN14, BLU10, COR5
Galka | Rank 6 Bastok | [x] Sky / [x] Sea

~Rubicmage
Leveling RDM, WHM, BLM, NIN
Taru | Rank 1 Bastok | [ ] Sky / [ ] Sea

Wholeheartedly agree on this. Traditional merit parties may have been boring to some people on retail - and in all fairness they do still happen here to a much smaller degree - but they added a lot of longevity to the game's lifespan and were actually fun for others. On retail it was unheard of to be capped on all merit categories and for every job in the game. Here it's actually realistic and fairly common among players who have been around long enough and run dreamland farm groups regularly. For a game that is known for the endless grind, obtaining merit points at a rate that makes being capped on them trivial detracts from the spirit of the game imo and it should be / should have been changed a long time ago. Sadly I feel it's way too late now and it's yet another damned if you do damned if you don't situation for this server.

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Always felt he should do a hard merit reset. As someone who did have capped merits on all my 75 jobs on retail, it's a joke that anyone can get them with 3 months of dyna.

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We need a lot more camps if we're gonna reset merits and kill dyna xp. The amount of people that would need merits is way too many for the amount of camps we have now, especially since our cap on merits is WOTG era. Fixing the broken toau camps like imps at a minimum. I'd argue we should open the wotg zones (fuck the classes, don't want either of them) if we're gonna reset merits - Castle O [S] merit parties were fun as hell in general.

Actually, give us the non-job wotg content in general. Maybe by 2035.

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Nah, everyone would just need to lower their expectations on Xp/hr like we did in the era this server is meant to emulate, and experience the content without the expectation that everyone is going to have maxed merits for all the relevant categories.

(I agree with deft and dom.. I'd reset merits, and end the stupid dyna farm.. but I'd also reset relics, and have said that for a long time, so I guess that's not a surprising take)

Everyone likes the ez mode version of the game, and it's just weird to me. Also, 2035 is pretty aggressive.

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