[dev1210] Why Not Merit Weaponskills ??

[Alhanelem]

My response is more directed to SE but you do have a good point:

This is a competently valid argument and I understand the reasoning - but the big issue I take with it is why do we not see this restriction also carried through to the Walk of Echo Weapon skills or the Mythic Weapon skills where no such limitation exists? The limitation there is your ability to farm (or buy) or do the related ws trial (for mythic ws). How is that any different than earning merit points. Are the merit weapon skill so much more over powered compared to WoE or Mythic that they require restriction?

You make a fair point, but the argument could me made that merit points are much more trivial to obtain and thus they chose a more arbitrary limitation.

Merit points were never that difficult to get, on the other hand.

I agree with your note however, that if specing is how they want to go, they should make respecing more reasonable to do. Changing your merits effectively undoes whatever effort you spent.

They placed no restrictions on your ability to get everything in the Job Point categories but limited it by making it very time consuming to farm (to the point of it not being realistic to cap them all)