Quote Originally Posted by Economizer View Post
By the way, as said by a Community Rep in this thread, SE isn't currently doing a major revamp of merits right now, they're changing stuff that involve timers. Working with SE with suggestions so improvements would come now while they're working on merits and timers would be suggestions about duration of spells not being based on how many merits you have, or if you were going out on a limb, asking for Convert merits to reduce the timer further.
Hmm... taking this one step at a time would probably work best. There's a lot of work to be done, but they got to start somewhere.
Convert Recast merits lowering recast by 60 seconds (from 20 seconds) would allow RDM to use Convert every 5 minutes versus 10 minutes on subjobs, which seems neither overpowered nor imbalanced. If anything, it's more in line with JAs on other (sub)jobs.
Dia III, Bio III and Phalanx II not requiring 5/5 upgrades just to get 100% effectiveness has been suggested countless times, but I guess it can't hurt to mention it again since SE _is_ likely to look at it right now. Being the precursor to the weaponskill merits really annoyed me.