Quote Originally Posted by Alhanelem View Post
Just an FYI out there. the WS still have a stat mod with 1 merit. It appears to be a 15% base and the first point does add 17%; I've read about some testing suggesting that the stat modifier when maxed is 100% of the stat.

These weapon skills are not so jaw dropping amazing (for the most part) that you will suddenly be a terrible gimp if you can't have every one for every job. The whole point of the merit system in the first place, though, was to enable specialization, so that sure, you can play every job, but you will be stronger with your personal jobs of choice. Thus, even when everyone has every job maxed, some people will still be stronger as one job than as another.

Also as an aside, 15 points does allow you to get every weapon skill- they just won't have very strong stat mods.

1/5 is 20% Mod
2/5 is 40%
3/5 is 60%
4/5 is 80%
5/5 is 100%

But there is a 0.85 Alpha applied which explains the 17% increase.