Quote Originally Posted by Zadimortis View Post
I'd be much happier with a more FFV-esque system that enabled you to carry over certain job abilities or job traits from one job to others; e.g. transplanting Convert onto your WHM/SCH, or allowing Meditation on your DRK/WAR. Via an obscene amount of merit points, of course.
Except that wasn't how FFV worked at all. You could set one ability, but, beyond the default command ability, you had to equip your own class abilities to use them outside a couple minor passive ones. For example, Red Mage could not use Doublecast without equipping it, preventing them from equipping another ability.

Quantity of merit points does not matter at all. You can max out merit points in, let's say 3 to 4 hours. By FFXI standards that's nothing, especially when it gives a gamebreakingly overpowered ability.