I appreciate what you're trying to say, but I know all the ways in which to boost accuracy, perhaps I wasn't clear enough. The problem is that we shouldn't have to sacrifice all of our gear for accuracy in every single battle. At 75 you never had to sacrifice everything for acc, so why now? Rng had to and so did drk, but beyond that we got to sport our fancy artifact/relic gear for the majority of stuff. IDK about you all but I'm sick of having 1000+ base acc and missing like I was a slack-off. I have full 119 augmented acc equipment and weapons and I STILL miss with bream sushi. It's just down right stupid that the focus of the entire game is on who can stack the most accuracy on their armor/weapons, I enjoy variety in my gameplay and having choices. Should rename the game to Final Fantasy XI: Can't hit this! An accuracy merit category would totally be helpful, and you can't convince me that it wouldn't be. In fact the entire enemy evasion should be looked at for high level content. Now is the time for tinkering with game mechanics, since that's all the content we'll get mainly from now on, so I feel fully justified in asking for this.

Even as a brd, I know that instead of madrigal I could be singing TONS of better songs other than accuracy, yet on brd regardless of anything I'm stuck playing stupid madrigal. I could have double minuet + double march. but instead I have to sacrifice a whopping 147 attack power for some lame accuracy buff >.> The whole argument that we have a brd so we don't need merits is really absurd. I could be giving you an actually beneficial and interesting song that makes your job easier and better on the front line by dealing more damage, but no everything is boiled down to madrigals madrigals madrigals *sigh* I mean I'll play whatever is needed, but it's just sad all the sacrifices we have to make to just do something as simple as hit the monster without buffs... No other mmo has an issue with landing simple attacks, so I cannot fathom the reasoning behind not fixing this most fundamental problem, which didn't even exist until just recently with all the 135+ battles popping up and whatnot. Something's got to give and adding more acc via merits solves this and it takes them what... 10 minutes of coding, an hour tops.