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

[FrankReynolds]

I thought the cap on merits was 30?

Ahhh yes, but there is not cap on trolling. Some people like these weapon skills despite how shitty they are, and all the nonsense excuses about balance because they give them endless enjoyment from their favorite part of the game: pissing people off in internet forums.

[Atomic_Skull]

Ahhh yes, but there is not cap on trolling. Some people like these weapon skills despite how shitty they are, and all the nonsense excuses about balance because they give them endless enjoyment from their favorite part of the game: pissing people off in internet forums.

Last Stand isn't shitty, neither is Apex Arrow, Resolution, Ruinator, Upheaval Shijin Spiral or Extenterator. they are all the most powerful WS in their class outside of relic/emp WS. And in the case of Last Stand it actually outperforms Wildfire under normal circumstances (as in you haven't gimped yourself with MAB/INT/+Fire atmas)

Stardiver does slightly lower damage on weak enemies than Drakesbane, but on the other hand it doesn't have negative berserk like Drakesbane so it does much better on high level enemies. Yes that's right Drakesbane has -20% attack, apparently it's had this for years and people only recently discovered it. So Stardiver isn't as useless as people first thought.

I'm talking about compared to natural skill wses. But in the case of axe, an improvement, like ever, over rampage would be nice.

Ruinator is an improvement over Rampage. Rampage will once in a blue moon spike higher but overall Ruinator's damage with be consistently higher. I know this first hand because I tried it on the test server.

[Aldersyde]

Ruinator is an improvement over Rampage. Rampage will once in a blue moon spike higher but overall Ruinator's damage with be consistently higher. I know this first hand because I tried it on the test server.

You will forgive me if I don't rush out and spend 1,000,000 xp on a weapon skill simply based on your anecdotal evidence. Run tests with an acceptable sample size and prove it to me with math.