Why are our group 1 merits so bad?

[Babekeke]

Not an issue, all the spells at capped potency for a small price, that's a good thing.

Heh you ASSUME capped potency lol

But, Seriha hit the nail on the head.

[Daniel_Hatcher]

Heh you ASSUME capped potency lol

But, Seriha hit the nail on the head.

A spell bought is always capable of being capped to full as long as you have the stats, merit spells for the most part are not.

Plus it's not like they couldn't actually go through and refund people for spent points, but really, I don't see the current system changing, so it's really just wishful thinking.

Change it to effect then, opens up other jobs getting them and maybe a tier III line then.

[Babekeke]

A spell bought is always capable of being capped to full as long as you have the stats, merit spells for the most part are not.

Shell/Protect V vs WHM's merited Shellra/Protectra V

[ManaKing]

Yeah, well SE needs to get on all the spells that people have to merit. It is a complete waste of merits for any mage to have to merit for even having spells. It's not like we get amazing spells that change how our class can function, like say a bunch of really good JAs on melee. We get all of our normal jobs abilities +1....(/sarcasm) you know like refresh 2. Oh wait! since that was after 75 we got it for free with no merits! /end sarcasm

Yeah we have to wait and see what they are going to change with the new updates. That being said, i made this thread. The point of it is discussion. If the community has a legit discussion about what they dislike about merits right now, and it does anything positive down the road, then it was worth it. Would I be happy if merits were reworked? Yes. Would I also be satisfied if what they are adding will nullify my grievances over the current system? Of course!

The important part is the discussion and the feedback we are giving. If they choose to ignore it...well that would really be a disappointment. But if they were looking for feedback and we never gave it to them, that would be far worse.

[Daniel_Hatcher]

Shell/Protect V vs WHM's merited Shellra/Protectra V

Shell V and Protect V act independently from the RA V line, as proved by them not being buffed by a WHM having merits in the RA V.

[Babekeke]

Shell V and Protect V act independently from the RA V line, as proved by them not being buffed by a WHM having merits in the RA V.

Just proves that if we got the RDM Merit spells as purchasable, they would likely only have the strength of single merit spells. This would also make sense, since if we wanted, we could put 1 merit into each spell. The exception imo being bio/dia which would possibly have the same duration as the other dia/bio spells.