[dev1040] Merit points adjustments

[Mirage]

Thanks for that info, Gildrein, those are welcomed changes.

I'm just wondering if we can expect updates to the maximum amount of merit points in the rest of the general merits in the next update as well.

[Gropitou]

Why put a category cap at all?
With players now having many (if not all) jobs near cap, each job requires different skills/attributes. Since people get a crazy amount of experience in aby in all sorts of ways let us use it. Let us cap all magic skills (since each type of mage needs different types of magic) and weapon skills.
No matter how high you put the maximum merits stored, that maximum will be reached in days (2 weeks tops for occasionnal players) and then we will be back to the same old story of tossing all our experience gained into the toilet.

[Ihnako]

Erm... you can have all jobs but you should not perform best in all.
It's part of the game that you have to set a focus on what jobs you play.

[Mirage]

Actually, I am for the idea that you should have to choose which jobs to be the very best in.

[Urteil]

Actually, I am for the idea that you should have to choose which jobs to be the very best in.

Yes. Yes. Yes.

[detlef]

I don't really care about combat or magic skill caps at this point. Many people don't even cap all their skills so what's the point in being able to optimize merits? I'm far more interested in increasing the job-specific merit points. Is that coming in the next merit point update? Get to it SE.

[Mirage]

I don't really care about combat or magic skill caps at this point. Many people don't even cap all their skills so what's the point in being able to optimize merits? I'm far more interested in increasing the job-specific merit points. Is that coming in the next merit point update? Get to it SE.

Maybe you don't. Even if you don't have capped magic skills, light/dark arts push you to the top, and merits are added on top of that again. Even if your combat skills aren't capped, merits will help you get there, and help you when you're at the cap.

[detlef]

Oh it's not that I think those merits are worthless or anything like that. I just don't think it's worth getting excited over anything short of allowing more job-specific merits. That would be a real difference-maker.

[Karbuncle]

Can't say I'm Super excited, But I do like the idea of 4 more STR merits, or if they cap at 8 still.. 4 DEX.

The other merits.. Eh... I think i saw they were increase the Critical hit Rate category area, which is green in my book.

[esmrambo]

I would like to increase in weapon skill merits. I like to play BLM, BLU, SMN, WAR, MNK. Which means that I can't cap weapon skills in all of those jobs.