[dev1210] Why Not Merit Weaponskills ??

[FrankReynolds]

No.
1) I don't give a rat's behind about "winning" (though, you sure seem to the way you've been fighting against me)
2) You don't understand. See below for how this is not the same thing.


It's not anywhere near the same as removing the caps because you don't have everything all at once. It merely cuts down on the hassle of changing your mind about a decision. Choice still matters, but you don't have to worry as much about regretting a decision you made, because you can reasonably change it (Where you can modify merit points, that is). You'd have to put LESS work into changing things around vs not doing this at all, because without these changes, you'd have to go spend a few hours or whatever getting all the merits back.

You don't have +12 to every single stat, maxed out every skill, maxed out every Others and maxed out every WS all at once. You only have the ones you chose, you simply have the ability to change them without having to completely undo a fair bit of work. I don't think it's reasonable to ask that you can have all stats and all skill stats etc. all completely maxed simultaneously. That's not balanced, especially since it benefits certain jobs more than others, even if you ignore the fact that encounters weren't tuned for us having all the extra 70+ stat points.

You make that face like "Wow, he's stupid." but you really didn't look at the whole picture.

Well most of the people here would have you believe that those few stat mod percentage points and the bit of extra damage they offer are critical and essential to winning anything when they really aren't.

SE has basically made their decision about how the merit point system works. They're going to raise the limits when they plan to raise them and neither I nor anyone here is likely to get what they want. In the end this isn't the terrible disaster of a situation that people are making it out to be.

You're arguing semantics. In your scenario, I still go to every event with the max stats for the job I'm on. The only difference is that in my scenario, I have to merit them all or choose which ones not to merit. In yours, You just have to have enough merits to move around.

Yours actually makes customization less likely. I have other stuff to spend merit points on. I'm probably not going to merit CHR or MND right away. But, If I can just swap out my strength and DEX merits whenever I wanna play bard, well.. I'll always have em.

My way... My bard will probably not have CHR merits for a very long time because I'd rather spend them on things like armor upgrade fights. Customization yo. My bard will be mad unique.

And I just want to merit all the weapon skills. Not sure how this turned into "merit all the things...".

I honestly don't care how I end up getting all my stuff merited. As long as it happens. If you would prefer that I have to move a bunch of merits around every time I job change rather than just meriting them all, well that's annoying yet better than the current setup.