Quote Originally Posted by Mefuki View Post
The argument that uncapping merits will hurt uniqueness doesn't make sense to me, not only because, as Byrth has said, there's usually only one "right" way to merit but also because there's only so much time in a day. Even if you were to uncap merits people would still be distinct. I'm a BLU main, maybe Justin is a RDM main, Byrth is maybe a DNC main etc and we each have different secondary jobs and we only have so much time to devote to any job/jobs and getting gear for those jobs. Merits make no difference as far as uniqueness goes.
Nah, I'm pretty sure a BLM main would merit INT instead of DEX. And I already explained the time spent issue in previous posts. Time spent on gearing a job doesn't make a player unique unless 1 job needs 10000 hours to complete. You certainly don't need 10000 hours to obtain very good gears in every slot in FFXI nowaday, more like 100 hrs.

If dev really make 1 job needing 10000 hours to master, players gonna cry too. Thus merit point system is a better option to create uniqueness, at least better than weekly gear cap in FFXIV, or super 10000hr grind fest.