Merit Weapon Skill Adjustments April Update

[Alhanelem]

Why cap it at all? It won't hurt balance and gives people something to do. It also increases trust between players and devs since we feel like SE cares.

It does hurt balance. it gives hardcore players a greater advantage and further discourages specializing in certain jobs. SE *wants* you to make decisions about what to make stronger. Capping how strong and how versatile you can get is part of balance.

Increasing the limit is fine- it should be porportionate to the number of jobs. Removing it is not. What Karbuncle is asking for is within the realm of reasonable. What you're asking for is not.

SE could do the same thing to "increaes trust" and make people feel like they care by giving everybody 1 billion gil. I'm sure everyone would love that, but that would kind of spoil the game. I feel this is the same situation, just on a lower level. To me, it's like putting in a cheat code. It might be fun at first, but the game will wear out faster.

[Sephiran]

It does hurt balance. it gives hardcore players a greater advantage and further discourages specializing in certain jobs. SE *wants* you to make decisions about what to make stronger. Capping how strong and how versatile you can get is part of balance.

Increasing the limit is fine- it should be porportionate to the number of jobs. Removing it is not. What Karbuncle is asking for is within the realm of reasonable. What you're asking for is not.

SE could do the same thing to "increaes trust" and make people feel like they care by giving everybody 1 billion gil. I'm sure everyone would love that, but that would kind of spoil the game. I feel this is the same situation, just on a lower level. To me, it's like putting in a cheat code. It might be fun at first, but the game will wear out faster.

I already do specialize in one job. I play paladin exclusively [insert comments about how I should suck less and just quit right now here]. I need Resolution, Realmrazer, Shattersoul, and Requiescat. Right now, the only way I might only need three of those weapon skills is if my dream comes true and the weapon skill adjustments discussed earlier release the exclusiveness on Hexa Strike.

Three weapon skills isn't even enough for one job, and I put my heart and soul into my paladin.