New Job Points and beyond?

[Kensagaku]

I think up to this point that merited abilities have been left out of the Job Point cycle because there's no guarantee that players will have X merited, so we won't be seeing Diffusion points. Unbridled Wisdom already has its JP (And for some reason, I doubt they're going to stack them... call me pessimistic). Unbridled Learning is still in the cards for JP changes, though I expect that they'll do something like magic damage or more conserve MP. ~.~

[Athen]

I think up to this point that merited abilities have been left out of the Job Point cycle because there's no guarantee that players will have X merited, so we won't be seeing Diffusion points.

I wish they would just allow us to go 5/5 on all the job-specific merits at this stage of the game. If they didn't just want to remove the barrier, it could be unlocked in the HP/MP category (since that has become a slight "catch-all" with the max. merit points in there) for 45 merits as a one-level unlockable that would allow job-specific merits to be 5/5. They could even add that "special touch" and make it two things to unlock, one for Group 1 and one for Group 2. Every BLM would have the ability to have 5/5 on all AMII, every RDM would have Paralyze II, Slow II, etc., which have been asked for multiple times as scrolled spells.

I would just think that, at this stage in the game, there's no reason to have to weigh trade-offs for putting one level in one job-specific item when a different one would have to suffer from the lack of that level.

[Zeargi]

I feel that at this point, they should just let the merit groups get maxed out like the JPs can be. I mean look at the BRD Relic, It has Dirge and Sirvente as the additional bonus for the armors... I don't know a single BRD that has those merited, and NIN as more things to merit than almost any other. And It's not so detrimental to have all these maxed as most things are so 'Cookie Cutter' anyway. What harm would come from letting a BLM, RDM, or a NIN max out those merits? I'm sure there's a few others out there. If there's going to be JP/Gift categories for JAs,Spells, etc. that are merits, they might as well let a person gain them all at that point.