Increase the number of meritable WS

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You could easily make Merits a natural part of leveling by having the merit system always active instead of only coming online at level 75. Earn merits whenever oyu want or change the system up a bit and have EXP go towards both level and merit points and bam- Talent system. Point is, they both do pretty much the same thing.

Merits ~= Talents ~= talent trees. It's close enough. I said "almost exactly" not exactly. But lets keep playing with semantics.

Perhaps they could but as it stands now merits are 75+ and i do not foresee them ever changing that, to quote you on the matter "no merits before 75" (a tribute to the no police)

Merits are nowhere near as robust compared to the level of customization talents tree's give. The way you allocate your merits do not fundamentally change the way you play your class, perhaps add some extra utility or 1-2 new abilities where as the way you are spec'd via talent tree has a VERY real and VERY significant impact on your ability to perform or even influences what situations you accel better at eg. PvP PvE ect.

The only thing as of now that fits that category is not having the proper merited ws for a DD main which you're taking to end game. Given that merit ws's do not fit either formula that is to say regular merit system concept and all access that every other weapon skill in the game has been afforded. so no talent tree ~= merits, talent tree > merits as all merits do is offer minor boosts to minor aspects of your character or class.