Merits - no use for end game characters?

Grim Dawn Classes, Skills and Builds
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Hi,

I´m really sorry if I just got it wrong, but I still have a problem with merits.
So I have my character, lvl 100, AoM completed. I complete also FG with him - on ULTIMATE.
Then I purchase a merit. It says “unlock rewards from quests on lower difficulties” (which would be 1 attr. + 1 skill on each Elite and Normal from FG).

But I cannot use it, since I “have already unlocked that difficulty”.

How can an end game character obtain the normal and elite rewards from FG?
Only by playing FG through to the end - on Normal and Elite …!!!

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There are no rewards in AoM or FG in Normal or Elite, only in Ultimate.

3

FG doesn’t have attribute and skill point rewards on Normal and Elite, only on Ultimate.

4

Aaaah! OK, makes sense. Thanks!
Heck - how do you know this?

5

So you’re saying I can’t speed through elite difficulty then use it to get the points I missed on my first play through?

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Devs have stated as such on the dev streams.

You can’t use any merit if you have Ultimate unlocked. If you skip Normal to go to Elite with a merit, skip the Elite points and then try a merit on Ultimate to get the points, you won’t. I actually haven’t tried myself but this has to be the logical conclusion.