Quote Originally Posted by Demonjustin View Post
A talent tree is based on a job, not a character, merit points are character based.
Talent tree is character based because you can only have 1 job/class in other MMO. Your class= your character. If you build your character that way it'd play that way in every content, which means no full functionality depending on what you do.

Honestly I don't see the difference - -.