One million limit points for a sidegrade? What is the Dev Team's logic behind this?

[Sparthos]

In certain situations? Yes. If you lack Chant du Cygne? Yes.

[Prothscar]

Would have been passable with a Perdu or Lyft wand, better than Vorpal Blade on blunt weak mobs for sure, but about the same as Vorpal on most things due to BLU's horrible selection of clubs.

[Atomic_Skull]

implying 100 merits is a lot

In today's FFXI that's nothing.

[Hayward]

100 merits is like what? 10 Hours of exp?

Meaningless. They should have made it more.

Really?

Typical poser adding nothing to a discussion that affects all of us.

This whole balance crusade really is starting to grate on my nerves. Were those weapon skills left alone, 100 points would be justifiable if only for the opportunity to rack up cruor. The way things stand now, the only motivation I see is amassing cruor. Be sure to thank the nearest Empyrean weapon owner who screamed bloody murder when these weapon skills were tested out initially.

[Tsukino_Kaji]

100 merits is like what? 10 Hours of exp?

Meaningless. They should have made it more.

That's only 5 times in and out of aby, should only take about 2-4 hours.

[SpankWustler]

We're also limited to three of these weaponskills, which again implies they should be an improvement over what's available for weapons with poor options. I'm particularly thinking of the weapons with average-to-horrid Empyrean weaponskills.

Originally, it seemed like these were going to be powerful weaponskills with the trade-off that you had to pick and choose. No matter how awesome you are, you could only have three.

Instead, they've been repeatedly compared to the "multiple hit with chance of critical" weaponskills that are learned at levels 55-60 and have been adjusted to be more comparable to those. They've been called "situational" a couple of times.

Be sure to thank the nearest Empyrean weapon owner who screamed bloody murder when these weapon skills were tested out initially.

I don't think the Development Bros play FFXI seriously enough to make Empyrean Weapons. If they do, I suspect Dagan or Farsha are more to their tastes, anyway.

Dark Knights with a Caladbolg were happy that Resolution would offer them an awesome weaponskill to use when Souleater was up. Warriors with Ukonvasara were happy that Upheaval would be great while using Mighty Strikes. Monks with Verethragna were happy that Shijin Spiral would be a good option whenever Impetus is not active.

Beastmasters with a Farsha were happy to finally put the STR and base damage on Farsha to use with a weaponskill worth using, and in fact, were OVERJOYED that Ruinator did more damage than Cloudsplitter.

Unless the Development Bros zeroed in on the two or players out of a hundred who complained about the new weaponskills, I'm pretty sure they came up with this idea on their own.

[noodles355]

That's only 5 times in and out of aby, should only take about 2-4 hours.

Is it too much to expect responses to a thread that aren't laced with exaggerations?

[Tsukino_Kaji]

Is it too much to expect responses to a thread that aren't laced with exaggerations?

I was being generous even. In altep you can cap merits before you even come close to capping XP per kill. You're litteraly getting a merit every 2 pages. That's a merit every 2 pulls.
If you think it was an exaggeration, then you've never had anything but bad parties.

[Mirabelle]

I was being generous even. In altep you can cap merits before you even come close to capping XP per kill. You're litteraly getting a merit every 2 pages. That's a merit every 2 pulls.
If you think it was an exaggeration, then you've never had anything but bad parties.

A can guarantee you with all the new competition for levelling and meriting these WS, that your speed of xp gain will drop considreably over the next month or so.

[Brolic]

That's only 5 times in and out of aby, should only take about 2-4 hours.

it's actually only 3