[dev1210] Why Not Merit Weaponskills ??

[Alhanelem]

If customization doesn't have to be useful then let's make all customization come from purely cosmetic sources and leave weapon skills, stats, and abilities out of it. Looks like we've finally found common ground. I knew it'd happen eventually.

No, we haven't found common ground. I didn't say it wasn't useful, only that it was "minor." Meaning, not drastically game changing. Having these things doesn't make miracles happen, and not having them doesn't make things impossible. There is plenty of room in between. You're twisting my words here. Customization is not just cosmetic sources and that's not how I want it to be. This game does a bad job of that as it is- 11+ years running and all we have is a command that temporarily locks your appearance until you zone.

Here is what I want, plain and simple: I want changing your merit configuration to be less difficult. The merits you earn should be permanent (and they should find some other currency for those battlefields because spending merits on them is silly). You should be able to change them in your mog house freely or at some minor cost or with some reasonable cooldown. Then all the people complaining here essentially get what they want while not completely ruining the customization aspect of the system. (Not to say I don't have other ideas, but I'm trying to be realistic as to the sorts of things SE could technically do)