Please raise the combat and weaopn skill max merits

[Alhanelem]

I would like to merit more skills so I can play a variety of jobs. I would love to merit new weapons like GS for Run and have more then 3 merit weapon skills since you have to cap them at 5 to make them worthwhile.

You can play a variety of jobs. The merit points or lack thereof do not make a job inviable (not that they don't help of course, but the way you write your post, you're saying it's impossible to play a job unless you have 8/8 merits in a weapon). I'm not necessarily disagreeing with you, but the premise of your argument is somewhat fallacious.

For the weapon skills specifically, they have already planned adjustments so that you do not need 5/5 for the weapon skill to be useful. Not exactly what we all had our hearts set on, but it does help.

[Zumi]

You can play a variety of jobs. The merit points or lack thereof do not make a job inviable (not that they don't help of course, but the way you write your post, you're saying it's impossible to play a job unless you have 8/8 merits in a weapon). I'm not necessarily disagreeing with you, but the premise of your argument is somewhat fallacious.

For the weapon skills specifically, they have already planned adjustments so that you do not need 5/5 for the weapon skill to be useful. Not exactly what we all had our hearts set on, but it does help.

I only play jobs that are maxed correctly to allow the highest performance. Certain jobs can get away with not having the merit WS if you have the empyrean weapon monk for example if you use VS as your main WS you don't need SS. However empyrean WS is pretty much required if you have a relic for that job otherwise you won't do any damage.

I will usually parse 25-45% of the total damage depending on the other people in VW pick ups that is because I actually try to min max everything.

For me I would not play a melee job that doesn't have 8/8 combat merits and acceptable WS, I wouldn't want to under perform.

The weapon skill change doesn't do anything that we asked for its mostly useless.

Current
1 Merit gets 17% mod each merit add 17% more to the modifier for a total of 85%

Next Patch
1 Merit gets 65% mod each merit after adds 5% more to the modifier for a total of 85%

Nobody who is serious at all about min maxing their damage dealer jobs is going to with a bunch of gimped merit WS over 3 maxed ones. Nothing will really change. When the update comes out, very few people will be like, I should demerit 1 of my WS so I can get a few gimped ones on other jobs.