Seems we have fell off topic somehow. The goal of this wasn't to discuss whether or not weaponskills merits need their cap raised. Camate already mentioned that they had no plans of increasing the cap for weaponskill merits.

The devs seem adamant on keeping merits as a form a specialization. I think that was also their plan for job points as you can only earn them for the job you are currently playing as. However a full alliance is 18 people, and there are 22 jobs to choose from. There does not need to be so much specialization between types of the same job.