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

[Brolic]

also

Michael Jackson! One million limit points, feel me!

[svengalis]

it's actually only 3

I thought the cap on merits was 30?

[svengalis]

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

Who do you have pulling for you where you can get that much exp that fast?

[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.

[Kriegsgott]

I thought the cap on merits was 30?

not for the first WS
i guess the most people have already 20 merits waiting

[Deadvinta]

Yeah, cause meriting the club WS is totally going to get me to use club on WAR and BLU

If it's any good of a weaponskill at all, I would merit it for BLU. Blunt damage can come in handy, and if you're somehow out of MP it could help you out to have a powerful club trick on-hand.

[Unaisis]

not for the first WS
i guess the most people have already 20 merits waiting

i have 20 merits waiting but new limit break is 15 merits i believe ._.

[MarkovChain]

100 merit is a lot for a WS that is better

In today's FFXI that's nothing.

But that's something in today's BG.

But seriously it's really nothing, barely enough to work for like ... ONE week if you are casual. Then we got the limite break quest, 4 levels to get, moar merits, and AF2+2 I think it's enough to keep the most implied players one month at least.

On that note check the monk forums shijin makes maxed spharai better than maxed vere with good gear, so likely a lot better than a crap level 90 empy. I'd say it gives balance to the game, if you can't get the plates you can get the coins solo at least and work towards the best weapon this way instead of voidwatch of fail where you won't get enough plates whatever you do solo or with 17 ppl.

[Zirael]

I'm going to keep this short and to the point.

• With a few exceptions, most of the new "Meritable Weaponskills" are sidegrades to current available weaponskills when merited to 5/5.
• It takes 100 merit points to upgrade one weaponskill to 5/5. That is one million limit points.
• Considering they are weaker than current alternatives if merited to 4/5 or less, it is pointless to merit them any lower than 5/5.

The question I would like the community reps to forward to the Dev Team is pretty straight forward:
Considering the disclaimer displayed before logging into the game, who on the Development Team thought it would be a good idea for players to spend time gathering one million limit points for a weaponskill that is no better than current alternatives, and why?

We have received comments from the development team about their goals for some of the weaponskills. They openly admit that they want them to be side-grades. The question is, how can they justify one million limit points for a sidegrade?

My gripe is, 3/4 of those weaponskills are either too weak or not useful, good thing is, they are pretty. Why I can have only 3 of them unlocked? I'd love to be able to show them off around, just like jobemotes. They are as useful, after all
(Serious question, I'd really love to have a Mithra Polearm Dance WS, but it's too weak to justify meriting, for example)

[Alhanelem]

Yeah, cause meriting the club WS is totally going to get me to use club on WAR and BLU

I can honestly see PLD using the club WS. They can still use a shield with clubs.