New ways to use merits !!!

[Blaster]

Many players find themselves with capped experience points and merits points and consequently wasting every experience point the further get.

Shouldn't it be great to be able to use merit points to skillup abilities? Or simply use them to get a certain amount gils, IS, AN, Cruors or ...

[Seiowan]

I'd support new ways to skill up, but I wouldn't support the idea of using merits to do so. The reason is because, as you say, it's simply too easy to cap merits these days. People would find themselves entirely neglecting their skills in favor of rushing to level 90 and capping them with merits instead.

Perhaps a system whereupon players could expend merits for a boost during combat, similar to how Atma's give players a boost in Abyssea except these boots would work outside. Perhaps new powerful skills could be added which spend merits as a form of currency to perform. Such things would probably be very useful against powerful NMs.

Just my thoughts on the matter, but I certainly agree that we could find some unique uses for the merit system if we think outside of the box.

[Kristal]

Just have excess experience convert to whatever local 'currency' is used in the particular zone. So CP in Conquest zones, ISP in TOAU zones, AN in WOTG, Cruor in Abyssea. To keep it balanced, a 10:1 conversion should be used. Probably should add it as a 3rd option to the current Experience/Limit Point Mode menu.