Blue mage Meriting

[larrymc]

Heavy Strike is inherent -60 accuracy (roughly), full merits bring it up to... -50 accuracy. For one spell.

That is actually the point. For most blu spells or additional effects, a +10 acc is a very minor improvement since the accuracy for both is already quite good. For this particular blu spell, since it was so heavily nerfed by SE, the difference is quite noticeable. Heavy strike is strong/good enough that it deserves some extra attention to make it land more.