Easy Merits Guide — Quick Reference
Special thanks to Chevon [3237207]
Part 1 original thread from here
https://www.torn.com/forums.php#/p=threads&f=61&t=16394278&b=0&a=0
Special thanks to Easy_Level_Up [4157898]
Part 2 original thread from here
https://www.torn.com/forums.php#/p=threads&f=61&t=16551579&b=0&a=0
Easy Merits Guide — Quick Reference (Parts 1 & 2)
Not a full guide, just a compiled reminder of some of the easier honor merits to grab, sorted by difficulty/cost.
Color key:
- 🔴 Red — Easiest, minimal cost, doable right now
- 🟠 Orange — Easy, needs coordination with someone
- 🟢 Green — Expensive but simple (500k+)
- 🔵 Blue — Simple but takes time
- 🟣 Purple — A bit more involved
🔴 Red — Easiest
- Pious — Donate $100,000 to the church (there's also a $1,000,000 tier)
- Landlord — Buy a trailer, list it for rent under Properties, set it free, have someone rent it
- Historian — Go to the newspaper → Chronicles, open any chronicle, stay on it for 15 minutes
- Backdrop / Hairy — Buy a backdrop and a hairstyle from the Points Building
- Pocket Money — Put any amount into the City Bank for a week
- Church Mouse — Have someone mug you for exactly $1. Easiest method: flush all your cash to $0 (stocks, a ghost trade, whatever), keep only $21 in your wallet, Stay in torn or travel to any country, give some lesson to the mugger.
- Fresh Start — Reset your merits (first reset may be free)
🟠 Orange — Needs Coordination
- Lovestruck — Defeat a married couple back to back (e.g. monkey_D and Left4Dead12)
- Domino Effect — Kill someone displaying the Domino Effect honor (e.g. L3Milk, weak stats)
- Double Dragon — Click attack on a target but don't hit them, have a friend land the kill (wastes 25e)
- Going Postal / Friendly Fire — Kill a coworker / a factionmate, respectively (pick someone weaker than you)
- Deadly Duo — Attack and defeat someone together with your spouse
- Guardian Angel — Defeat someone while they're mid-attack on someone else
- Yoink — Mug someone right after they've mugged someone else
- Phoenix — Get defeated by an equal-stat friend, heal up fast, defeat them back within 10 minutes
- Boss Fight — Participate in taking down a lootable NPC (check the schedule on yata.yt)
- Vengeance — Retaliate and hospitalize someone who attacked your factionmate (within ~5 minutes)
- Carnage — Pop a Xanax, kill 10 people for a faction hit worth 10+ respect (also counts toward Kill Streaker 1)
- Bounty (25/100/500 collected) — Have 2-3 friends place separate bounties on weak targets (10 bounties max per person at a time), then hospitalize them all to collect. Pairs well with the Kill Streak grind below.
- Auctions (win 10) — Buy something and resell it to get your money back, or keep it if you don't need the cash back
🟢 Green — Expensive but Simple (500k+)
- Foul Play / Stinker / Wipeout — Buy the special item (dog poop / stink bomb / toilet paper) from the Item Market specials section, use it on someone weaker than you (~$800k each)
- Blood Money — Have a friend hold $15M+, mug them for $1M+ in a single hit
- Self Defense — Post in the Attacking Forum offering to pay for lost defends (~$250k each) until you hit 50 (~$12.5M total)
- Energetic — Take 4 Xanax to stack to max 1000 energy (~$3.4M, ~32 hours of cooldowns)
- Dead or Alive — Have a friend post bounties for you to collect, totaling $10M
- Kill Streak (10/25/50/100/250/500 wins in a row, attacks or defends) — Take Xanax to hit 1000 energy, wait out the drug cooldown, attack ~40 noobs, take another Xanax for 10 more attacks to reach 50 in a row. Also nets you the Energetic merit for stacking to 1000.
- Dump (5,000 items) — Buy and dump 5,000 cheap items (credit cards, beers, or anything under $350) — fast if you do it in one sitting
🔵 Blue — Simple but Time-Consuming
- Who's Frank? — Take 50 Cannabis (1.5hr each, ~$6,000 each — ~75 hours and ~$300k total)
- Alcoholic — Drink 500 beers (max 24/day — ~21 days and ~$350k)
- Forgiven — Pray every day for two weeks straight without missing a 24-hour window
- Booboo — Go to the hospital 250 times (happens naturally over time)
- Naked (win 250 unarmored fights) — Combine with Kill Streak/Bounty grinding above, just do it with no armor equipped; bought losses while naked count too
- Ammo (fire 1k/10k/100k/1M rounds) — Buy a mini-gun and use it often; if you're rich, buy/loan a Ranked Weapon with Spray or Blind Fire — works for defends too
- Finishing Hits (100 per weapon type) — Rotate weapon types (including fists) after hitting 100 kills with each until you've covered them all — stacks nicely with the Kill Streak grind
- One Shot (100 one-hit kills) — Beat up noobs; stacks with Kill Streak, Naked, etc.
- Stealth (100 stealth attacks) — Attack noobs while naked; use a scalpel if your stats are too low (though you lose out on Ammo merit progress that way)
- Meds (500/5k/25k medical items used) — Use small med kits for healing whenever you have cooldown spare; pairs well with grinding Russian Roulette merits since you'll be hospitalized a lot
- Wheels (win on every gambling wheel) — Spin them all until you win on each, even if the prize is low
- Disposal (100/200/300/500+ per crime type, level 100 skill, dissolve a body in acid) — Disposal has a daily limit, so do your allotted crimes every day; the acid job only appears randomly and needs high enough skill
🟣 Purple — A Bit More Involved
- Zero Liability — In Card Skimming, install a skimmer at the Bus Station, leave it for 3 weeks to recover 250+ details
- Riddled — Using only fists, land hits on 10 different body parts on a weak opponent and win in one attack
- Finale — Equip a HEG ($15k) and a Pillow ($6k), attack with the pillow until the final hit, finish with the HEG on turn 25
- Invictus — Find/pay someone with double your stats to intentionally lose a defend against you
- Semper Fortis / Manu Forti / Vae Victus — Defeat someone with 5x your stats (if under 550k stats, penguinbob is a common easy target — high Str, weak everything else)
- Twenty One — In Blackjack, get a Natural, a Double Down, an Insurance bet, and a Six Card Charlie (bet only $10/hand)
- Super Combo — A multi-merit combo attack: have your friend equip the Domino honor, mug a faction member who's in on it (holding $21M muggable cash), then attack someone else without finishing the attack, then mug them. In one sequence this can net: Domino Effect, the faction retaliation merit, the "attack an attacker" merit, the mug $1M merit, and the "attack a mugger" merit — plus more if done naked or with a bounty on them, and another merit if the mugger is also your coworker.
- Bazaar (100 unique customers) — Buy a Bazaar for 250 points, then get 100 people to buy from you. Sell something cheap (e.g. beer for $100), or run a giveaway in trade chat/forums ("100th customer gets $1M", "50th gets a Xanax", etc.) to drive traffic. Post your sales log on the forum as proof once done.