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Personally, I want my Shellra merits to effect my Shell V as well as Shellra V.
If not for buffing other parties in the alliance, simply for buffing individuals in the party who missed the original AoE.
If SE plans on making future additions of Protect/Shell, I also advise making these merits work for them.
It would be nice if the Protectra V and Shellra V merits were changed in order to affect all levels of Protect, Protectra, Shell, and Shellra. Not only that, for Protect and Protect, to have the merits add Physical Damage Taken -% instead of simply defense.
However, Group 2 abilities are meant to give access to new job abilities or job traits, not simply enhance the effects of abilities we already have like Group 1 merits, so it would be interesting as to how this would be implemented.
SE said they were introducing a "new" merit system. I am guessing that will come when the lvl 99 cap comes. So I'll wait til then and c what they are making :)