To be honest, I think it'd probably make more sense to raise the Combat Skills merits from 8. They've just been increasing the amount of skills we can have capped at 8 instead of raising the individual values of each type of combat skill. I remember a day when I could only have 4 weapon type skills capped at 8, I played THF MNK SMN at the time, so I had Dagger, Staff, Hand-to-Hand, and Marksmanship all capped, made sense to me since I didn't need Great Katana, Axe, or any other weapon type since they weren't any benefit to me. But now having all the skills capped just seems pointless especially when I don't play those jobs really, I'm simply going to level my NIN and BLU to 75 in order to allocate Katana skill, Blue Magic Skill and Ninjutsu skill merits, because meh.