War Merits

hi all, i recently took war up and its sitting at lv 79.

I was wondering what is the best way to do merits.

from what i see, obvious choice seem to be 5/5 double attack.

I was wondering if 5/5 beserk or 5/5 aggresor would be better.

also for group 2 would 5/5 war charge and a mix of the rest (except aggressive aim) be a good choice?

I'd do 5/5 DA/Berserk, 5/5 War Charge at least

Def put 5/5 for double, i personally put aggressor5/5, but with atmas in abyssea berserk might be the better choice. as for group 2 i 5/5'd WC and decided not to bother with anything else, but 1 in tomahawk and 4 in savagery for the off chance you have an excessive amount of tp; may as well make it better, eh? if not id just slap em all on tomahawk instead.

[Group 1]

Berserk 2
Warcry 2
Aggressor 1
Double Attack Rate 5

[Group 2]

Warrior's Charge 4
Tomahawk 1
Savagery 5

I'm doing 5/5 berserk/DA and for g2, 5/5 WC and Tomahawk. Savagery seems like a waste since you'll only get 1-2 ws off with a 50 tp bonus if fully merited vs the benefit of removing special defense from a mob 50% of the time.

Some people are really anal about berserk/aggressor timers matching up, but currently acc is hardly an issue and you should find better gains in berserk.

-Group 1
Berserk 5/5
Double attack 5/5
-Group 2
5/5 Warrior's Charge
5/5 Tomahawk

Savagery is kinda meh imo. And you don't need accuracy that much on WAR anyways so aggressor is kind of a waste when you can deal more damage with having berserk up more often.

Berserk 5/5
Double Attack 5/5

5/5 War Charge
4/5 Savagery
1/5 Tomahawk

Savagery is meh but more than 1 merit in Tomahawk is pointless, and that one merit is debateable. I only have it just in case I might need Tomahawk but any merit after the first just increases duration which is just... So very underwhelming. If it increased the effect perhaps it might be more useful. And worked on more monsters.

It works on a lot of mobs. And on any nm it is incredibly more useful than savagery, and even more worthwhile to fully merit to keep their special defense effects off 50% of the fight.

SERJ GET ON VENT! D:

Was going by lolwiki, it works on a lot of mobs I rarely fight on War, couldn't justify it. Will test it on more mobs I suppose, if so I'll drop Savagery merits. Got 20 merits stored up anyway.

I still like the 3/3/4 split for Cat 1's Im sure now I need to go change them to 5DA/5BA but idk I prolly wont ever.

ok i have this same debate going on in my head.....but savagry seems absolutely useless now... blood rage over-writes warcry... so savagry for WS means nothing if you're using blood rage for the same end.. so i'm thinking 5/5 tomahawk might be nice

Forgot about the overwrite, was so annoyed when I found out >.< I have blood rage macro right before WS and Warcry in WS macro, prob gonna switch those two around now...

Use Warcry after Blood Rage wears. win/win

Also, augmented relic head +2 makes savagery more worth it ^.^ and it's not too hard to get/augment. 4 more TPB per merit and extends that to party members as well. TPB increases WS damage by a lot. making 5/5 savagery very nice. unless of course you're doing a 300% ws :P