Merit Weapon Skill Adjustments April Update

[Alhanelem]

SO you have every job leveled, every merit possible spent, you have every piece of gear available and your macros are all perfect right? That's why you are saying that gimping your weapon skills would be the only form of customization right?

This isn't just about weapon skills, it's about the game as a whole. You're telling me that the only customizaiton that is and should be in the game is "choose not to level this job, choose not to merit this, choose not to do that. You'll be more gimp, but you'll at least be unique."

When you require that people choose between having one thing and having another (versus choosing whether or not you bother getting something), you customize in a positive way- by having something not everybody else has, instead of in a negative way- by choosing not to have something everyone else has or can have.

And I'm talking about the merit system as a whole, not just the weapon skills category. I'm seeing requests to remove all merit limits, not just weapon skills.

All they need is a respec feature like every other game has, allo2wing you to reconfigre your merits (in your MH, not just anywhere) without having to farm more merit points (maybe just charge a small fee in banked merit points for the respec). I always did feel it was silly that merits are lost when you undo them.

Let's apply your logic to a currently uncapped category:

Anyone can build any E/R/M weapon that they choose right now.

Why don't you have 99 Kenkonken with afterglow? I say it's because you chose to customize your character in other ways instead, but according to the above logic, you in fact chose to be a gimp because you felt like it was the only way you could customize seeing as anyone can have them if they so choose.

Sounds pretty silly to me.

Broken logic is broken.

Broken logic is broken- except that it's your interpretaiton of my logic that's broken.

What you said about "the above logic" in your post is basically true: in many cases, choosing not to get a R/E/M weapon is basically choosing to gimp yourself- at least by most elitist's standards. If all the merit categories are uncapped, the same thing will happen with them. anyone who chooses not to max them all out is choosing to gimp themselves. Many elitists out there will say you're choosing to be gimp if you don't choose / aren't able to obtain the latest and greatest gear.

The difference with your example though is a 99 afterglow weapon is so time consuming to get that you can't choose everything. Under the current merit system, if the categories were all uncapped, it wouldn't take all that much time cap everything out.

I would be less opposed to them doing it if meriting took so much time that it wasn't practical to max everything out- the problem with this is it would be unfair to everyone who hasn't already merited a ton of stuff unless they hit the reset button on the whole thing.