[dev1006] Why limit the number of weapons we can cap.

[Greatguardian]

Why are job specific merits not mentioned?

If I were to venture a guess, it's because the majority of these merits aren't directed towards improving the individual performance of any particular job. Being able to get another 1% crit rate merit, a few more HP and some Str is a nice boost of course. However, the most important (and long overdue) changes are to the Weapon/Magic classes, which boost the player's ability to merit multiple jobs.

Being able to fully merit a third magic skill, as well as an additional Offensive and Defensive combat skill (or a total of 4 Offensive combat skills) is something players have been asking for for years. Granted, these updates come at an awkward time since there really isn't a combat skill worth meriting right now aside from H2H (or potentially GKT for War/Nin Red procs). However, it is possible for new Overworld content to change that dynamic, in which case this would be a huge boon to players who wish to merit weapons/magic for multiple jobs.

[Insaniac]

Oh jeez you're right. I blame lack of sleep but I still think they should just let us cap all of them.

[RAIST]

Oh jeez you're right. I blame lack of sleep but I still think they should just let us cap all of them.

Agreed. Some mage jobs have 3 native magic skills. They should have been at LEAST at 24 caps out of the gate, then give us 8 more so we could merit another job like maybe SMN or BLU. Never understood that design.

Same applies for weapons. Every job has at LEAST 2 weapons they can speciallize in--even mages--and some up to 4.

Kudos for finally working towards a more reasonable setup SE... but, seriously, if nothing else these two categories should be higher still.

[Gropitou]

Remove the Category Limits altogether, let people merit all they can and want.

[Mirage]

Agreed. Some mage jobs have 3 native magic skills. They should have been at LEAST at 24 caps out of the gate, then give us 8 more so we could merit another job like maybe SMN or BLU. Never understood that design.

Same applies for weapons. Every job has at LEAST 2 weapons they can speciallize in--even mages--and some up to 4.

THF, DNC, DRG, BST, BLU, PUP. I wouldn't want any of those jobs melee with anything but their primary weapons in my parties. Other jobs that almost make that list would be MNK (can't remember last time i saw a pole-wielding mnk), nin (how often do they throw shit anyway?) and sam (sidewinder-sams are so 2005).

Anyway, while I would welcome an even bigger increase in merit points, i understand why it's not like that. Jacks of all trades shouldn't be masters of all of them as well .