Please increase number of meritable weaponskills!

[Mayoyama]

With the need for people to be flexible in the jobs they are asked to come, it has become a real problem when it comes to meriting weaponskills. Three is simply not enough. Can I ask that you please increase number of meritable weaponskills from three to five?

I don't believe that five would be overpowered, but would allow a little more flexibility for those who play multiple jobs.

[Taint2]

Yes Please.

3 is WAY too limiting especially when most are must haves for their job.

[Tamoa]

Liked, agreed, PLEASE let us merit (as in fully merit, otherwise it's pointless) 2 more weaponskills.

[Vagrua]

20 jobs, 3 merited weaponskills. Fix it!

[Hinote]

I agree with Mayoyama, 5 would be perfect. Cover all your bases without being overpowered.

[Nala]

How is having all the ws merited overpowered you can only equip one main hand weapon at a time and therefore only access one at a time.

Most jobs will stay to the one weapon skill that is best suited for it not to mention the fact that there is only one meritable WS per weapon type.

In either case increase them makes no sense to put artificial limitations on a character in the name of snowflake status.

[Shadax]

How is having all the ws merited overpowered you can only equip one main hand weapon at a time and therefore only access one at a time.

This.

I never understood the reasoning behind this and limiting weapon/magic skill merits. You can really only benefit from skills native to the job you happen to be playing, so how would anyone who has all their skills merited be overpowered? With more and more people running out of things to merit, the devs really need to look into revamping the merit system and eliminate many of these arbitrary caps.

[Mirage]

I agree that 3 is too few. 5-6 would be a lot more sensible. Either that, or rework how much stat modifiers you get per level, so that you can get one to just level 4 and it'll still be good enough to be worth using.

Example: 1/5 gives you a 50% str mod, 2/5 80% str, 3/5 90%, 4/5 96% and 5/5 100% str.

Changing it to this, then also giving us a total of 5 more points to put in WSes would be a pretty good improvement, instead of how it is now, where it is either 5/5 or 0/5, nothing in between is worth getting.

I could personally see myself going 4/5 or 3/5 on some of the WSes if things were like this, and only take some of them to 5/5 for that last 4% stat mod boost.

[saevel]

Yes please.

There are plenty of WS's I'd like to use and play around with that I'm otherwise prevented from doing.

[Insaniac]

This.

I never understood the reasoning behind this and limiting weapon/magic skill merits. You can really only benefit from skills native to the job you happen to be playing, so how would anyone who has all their skills merited be overpowered? With more and more people running out of things to merit, the devs really need to look into revamping the merit system and eliminate many of these arbitrary caps.

Removing all caps from merits creates a finite need for meriting which is bad. The caps create a need to re-merit depending on what flavor job you are enjoying at the time. That is the only explanation. Magic and Combat skills are fine with their current cap because you can store enough merits to swap them around on a whim. Job merits people don't usually change but if you need to do something like cap a specific Merit BP for some mob you will be fighting that is weak to a certain element it only requires 22 merits. So, the caps aren't arbitrary, they create a sustainable system.

With WSs swapping on a whim is simply impossible. It takes a full night of meriting to cap one and too many jobs are dependent on the new WSs to be viable for high tier content. If you wanna play SAM you NEED Shoha. If you are serious about WAR you need Resolution or Upheaval capped for MS zergs even if you have access to Ukko's. If you are a DRG without Ryunohige you NEED Stardiver. Ruinator puts Rampage to shame. Exenterator is a must for THF and DNC. DRKs need either Entropy or Resolution capped or even both. Anyway. My point is most of these WSs are make or break when it comes to being able to use a job in high end content and while I understand the cap and realize it serves a purpose.. 3 maxed WSs is one of the dumbest decisions the devs have ever made. 5 should be the bare minimum. 7 would be ideal. It could start at 5 and then there could be a mini-quest added that requires you to turn in 1000 merits to unlock an additional 5 merits in the WS category.

blah blah blah OP Liked.