Red Mage meriting

[Neisan_Quetz]

Blind was one of my most self rage inducing spells at 75 cap, landed on a fairly odd amount of monsters but all our tanks had floored evasion.

[Hyrist]

You're making false assumptions of two major points.

1. That every one of the monsters I am facing are difficult enough to automatically cap accuracy against me in every circumstance, and the use of Blind II is unable to break that rate.

2. That every Evasion tank I assist has the gear to force themselves into capped evasion against every monster.

In pratice, I find neither of these cases to be true, and therefore Blind II is of use.

Your argument is fine on paper and on paper I agree. The game itself, however rarely fits into paper math, and parses of evasion rates have proven to me how often evasion is not at the assumed absolutes.

If I may anticipate further arguments, you'd tell the Dancer to "Suck Less" and me to stop fighting weak mobs, right? Until such a time both my friends receive the gear needed to hit evasion cap dependably enough, and until I am finished with my weapon trials, Blind II will still have a use. And will continue to be useful whenever I encounter that "Grey Area." Where I am not certain that evasion is capped or floored.

Again, I currently have no other use for that one category point, all it would due is stack more duration on Dia III, and I'm already comfortable where it is.

Once those circumstances change, or the merit categories are revised, I'll re-evaluate my choices. It's not as if merits are precious things these days.