Rebuilding Buffer and becoming stronger.

So after the many COP fights I have gone thru in the past month i really needed to XP my BLM back up. So I set out on a mission and LFP while killing puddings. I kill my first pudding and i get a tell asking to join party i agree and the party has a BRD and RDM, thinking to myself this will be lovely and it was. Went from 14k to 19k in a matter of mins and was able to switch back over to merits. I had 1 merit left over from a previous meriting session and earned enough to gain 1 more merit. I am wanting to test my damage with the extra merit and see how much each merit is worth roughly. My current Thunder IV with 1 merit was doing 1262 to puddings, this was the most consistant number that i get on non-lighting days. So tomorrow before we start our finial push for Rings i am going to test my Thunder IV against puddings, rumor has it that each merit add's 2% so 1262 * 2% = 25.24 so not bad another 25 points of damage.