most merit spells are useless anyways so it doesnt matter, I am siding with making those merit spells actall spells that jobs can use and getting rid of all spell merits and making them to other job traits like potency traits.
instead of slow II, you would just have a slow potency trait for RDM and make slow II a learnable spell, same with protecra/ shellra and AM II. The potency traits that could replace AM II is MB potency for a specific element.
