Quote Originally Posted by Zhronne View Post

That's a very cool idea and I like it a lot, hope they'll think about implementing it! But it still wouldn't solve the Pet Scaling issue, and I doubt it would have a big impact on the Pet Survivability either.
Well as to the scaling issue, I know certain merit categories have had their max amounts of adjustments increased over time, and different categories have different limitations. They can at least go up to 15 improvements to a single merit, as shown by hp/mp merits, they can also break a category into two groups as shown by job merit categories. So unless 15 is as high as a single meritable choice can go, that could take care of a good amount of the scaling.

How I would likely do is would have generic boost portion for a specific jobs pets be a flat increase to pet stats, essentially to get the pet a little below the baseline raw stats for certain content levels, and as content levels go up the amount spendable in this section could go up, or values adjusted if a cap is hit. While the second grouping of merits could be more percent based improvements, with a more strict max per/combo limit on these ones.

Unfortunately, BST and possibly PUP would be the more difficult ones to balance with a system like this. BST mostly because of the all the variability they get with pets currently. PUP would be more due to attachment interactions.