Monk Meriting

[Paksenarrion]

My MNK merits are just a shy bit short of being done, but here's what I got so far:

Group 1
Counter Rate: 5/5
Kick Attacks Rate: 5/5

Group 2
Formless Strikes: 2/5
Invigorate: 1/5
Penance: 3/5

Still have four more merits to throw in. Planning to cap out Penance and whatever's left into Invigorate. I *may* consider dropping Formless Strikes down to one. I don't use it often, but when I do use it, it's because of how useful it is for a situation. I still have a laugh sometimes about my San d'Oria 9-2 battle, decided to Hundred Fists and the big guy used Invincible right after, so I threw up Formless Strikes and yelled on Ventrilo "Yeah! How do you like that you bastard!?" My LS at the time got a laugh out of that.

But it is useful for those times I have to fight an elemental for some reason, or dealing with mobs with blunt immunity. I mean, I now have the piercing and slashing H2H weapons, but there are those couple mission mobs that are immune to all but magic.

Okay, I'm done babbling on that point.

I've always suggested this, and while the need for it is much less common now (I used it mostly when CoP was still level capped.), if you put a single merit into H2H skill, you can get Raging Fists at 40 instead of 41. I suggest that to anyone who has native H2H skill, even if it's not their best skill.

[hiko]

I've always suggested this, and while the need for it is much less common now (I used it mostly when CoP was still level capped.), if you put a single merit into H2H skill, you can get Raging Fists at 40 instead of 41. I suggest that to anyone who has native H2H skill, even if it's not their best skill.

h2h skill merit is the best skill merit you can get because it's the only one who directly affect base dmg.