[byr1001] Uncapping the Merit Point Categories

[Damane]

This sounds retarded TBH. I know plenty of players waste their time leveling useless jobs to 99, but really. Let those players max their merit but please don't suggest the dev to let us waste our playtime doing "exp". We need something else than abyssea. If you want to make differences between players allow for a new kind of merit system farmed with upcoming content points. Legion wouldn't be fail if, for instance, the point would be used to upgrade stats. You know very well that abyssea is botted to hell, and people ("some people") would end up getting PL bots and let their char all day gathering the exp (if you allow for more meirt point cap). I mean it's time to evolve, merits are from the past. Some random thoughts :

food "upgrades" : granted x or y bonus when using food. For instance do a job trait so that when I play SMN, I'm getting pet accuracy when using a given food. The merits are earned by collecting exp in neo salvage.

party "upgrades" : grants various bonus (infinte possibilities) when teaming up with other : double attack, crit, TH ...


My point is, if you want to establish a new hierarchy between players you need to get aways from abyssea and exp spam. We've seen how it ended up with cruor farming. SE needs to put in place a system that prevents players from spamming without being as cock blocking as some events.

seriously dont know what you are doing wrong, but I got all jobs to 99 (-DRG) and capped all merits while doing VW, some exp pts, and casual stuff. So yeah if I ever get DRG up to 99 (if I ever want) and get those merits capped by doing random shit like VW, dynamis, etc. what next? Sit on capped merits? I am throwing out merits on jobs atm I dont even play! because my main jobs merits have reached their limits!

[MarkovChain]

seriously dont know what you are doing wrong, but I got all jobs to 99 (-DRG) and capped all merits while doing VW, some exp pts, and casual stuff. So yeah if I ever get DRG up to 99 (if I ever want) and get those merits capped by doing random shit like VW, dynamis, etc. what next? Sit on capped merits? I am throwing out merits on jobs atm I dont even play! because my main jobs merits have reached their limits!

Ok bro so you are the kind of player to level all job, and all you can do is exp every job, we got it. The real players want event to make their main job progress (gear or new merits-type progression). Do I need to pull the chart of what job sucks and what job doesn't suck ? You leveled every job and don't use any lol, faceplam. Allowing my monk to caps its CHR wooot ? Since you guys like achieving useless things why don't you cap AF2+2 on every job ? I mean it's certainly better of an upgrade than the ability to cap your VIT. I think too many people have been used to the cokcblocking-less grind fest that was abyssea. EXP or MERIT no longer have value, that's why allowing for more merit wouldn't introduce character diversity.

[Taint2]

Ok bro so you are the kind of player to level all job, and all you can do is exp every job, we got it. The real players want event to make their main job progress (gear or new merits-type progression). Do I need to pull the chart of what job sucks and what job doesn't suck ? You leveled every job and don't use any lol, faceplam. Allowing my monk to caps its CHR wooot ? Since you guys like achieving useless things why don't you cap AF2+2 on every job ? I mean it's certainly better of an upgrade than the ability to cap your VIT. I think too many people have been used to the cokcblocking-less grind fest that was abyssea. EXP or MERIT no longer have value, that's why allowing for more merit wouldn't introduce character diversity.

The problem is the limitations. I play 5 DDs jobs: MNK,WAR,DRK,SAM,RNG all have their uses in endgame but I'm extremely limited in what I can merit. SAM has to have Shoha, WAR/DRK have to Resolution, MNK has to have H2H merits. Now I'm stuck filling in the rest or stuck gimping a job.

As players like myself get more and more capped on everything we have almost nothing left to work for.
I would finish Spharai tomorrow but I have zero merits left for SS which would gimp the weapon. Same goes for Mandau, Anni and Excal. All of which you need their merited WSs or you are gimping them.

[Kincard]

I'm not sure I understand what MarkovChain's objection to the OP is given that he actually agrees with him. He says that uncapping merits is pointless because it will barely affect players based on the fact that capping VIT or CHR is worthless...which is exactly what the OP's point is, that removing the caps affects nothing enough to warrant the existing limitations in the first place. It's adding something for players to do with their merits instead of just sitting on them all the time, and it can add some stuff for players to do in their offtime when they're not running events with their linkshells or whatever.

The great thing is what he suggests as an alternative. Instead of grinding xp in Abyssea, why not grind xp in Neo Salvage instead! That'll really show how amazing of a player you are, killing massive amounts of fodder monsters in one entry limited area instead of killing massive amounts of fodder monsters in one entry limited area.

[Damane]

Ok bro so you are the kind of player to level all job, and all you can do is exp every job, we got it. The real players want event to make their main job progress (gear or new merits-type progression). Do I need to pull the chart of what job sucks and what job doesn't suck ? You leveled every job and don't use any lol, faceplam. Allowing my monk to caps its CHR wooot ? Since you guys like achieving useless things why don't you cap AF2+2 on every job ? I mean it's certainly better of an upgrade than the ability to cap your VIT. I think too many people have been used to the cokcblocking-less grind fest that was abyssea. EXP or MERIT no longer have value, that's why allowing for more merit wouldn't introduce character diversity.

your comment makes no sense and absolutly missed my point, pls use your glow on another topic that comes out of your after.