Merit Point Expansion

[AyinDygra]

Expanding on merits has been on my mind, and these really make it to the top of my list as interesting additions:

Merit: Heroic Stature
Increases your "effective level."
+1 level for each merit. 20 merit points each

What this would do is: Whenever there is a level check, it would consider you to be up to 5 levels higher.
At level 99, the game would consider you to be level 104 in these areas:
* Damage & Defense calculations
* Enfeeble resisting.
* Aggro conditions (like 75's not aggroing Easy Prey Robber Crabs anymore, even though we're well beyond the normal aggro level gap, SE did say they were looking into changing this little quirk of the system(link))
* Anything else that uses level checks.

New Merit Category: Inherited Job Traits
Purchase Job Traits from any job you have currently leveled up to level 49.
Each Job Trait costs 20 merits. You can purchase ALL of them.

You are only able to set 1 of the Job Traits.
* They are set through a menu, just like your Support Job or Blue Magic spells.
* You can only set Job Traits that would be available from your support job at your current level.
Example: Martial Arts IV from Monk level 46. You would have to be level 92 to set this Trait on any other Job.

For traits you can learn from multiple jobs at different levels, perhaps it would base the restriction on the lowest level version you have access to. (like Ranger getting Accuracy Bonus I at level 10, but Dragoon at 30. If you only have Dragoon to 30 and buy this trait, you'd have to be level 60 before you can set this trait, rather than 20, until you level Ranger to 10)

[Fearforever]

I think the basicly increasing your Level where as checking is concerned is too game breaking, It'd be better if they just gave us Attack, Defence, Accuary, Evasion (not skill), Crit. hit dmg, Magic. Acc. etc. merits Could have +5 atk/def/acc/eva per merit so 5 merits would be +25 atk/def etc. that'd proc be safer.

[Seriha]

They could just let us merit everything to max, as the concept of making people unique doesn't really fly when some merit choices are simply no contest.

[Jalonis]

I agree that Auto-Refresh & Regain could be gamebreaking, but the Regen seems fine.

Also for the love of god can we please increase merit point's limits?

We had 8 for magic/combat at lv75 and still at 90 Give us a limit of 12-15 for all Magic/Combat/HP, 10 for Atribs, 6-8 for "Others".

Checked your merit panel recently?

[Fearforever]

Checked your merit panel recently?

Yes.... they increased HP/MP to 8>12 and Atribs from 5>8 big deal what about more upgrades? please read what i actually said... incase u didn't read it'll resay it.

We need 12-15 limit for EACH combat/magic skill/HP/MP
10 for Atribs
6~8 for Others.

[Legomike]

Inherited Job Traits

this
except as long as you have the job leveled you can buy it. starting at 75
Smn25 gets all the rest of your jobs auto refresh at 25

[Jalonis]

Frankly I'd like to see more refresh available either through gear, spells, or traits. It's ridiculous how long a high level mage needs to spend on their ass when doing stuff without the refresh available in abyssea.

[Kaiichi]

Okay with this, alow us to merit everything to its max, ninja should not have to pick between sange, nte, or one teir of San spell, and rdm shouldnt have to choose between Dia or Bio, just as a few examples. I'm sure every job has beefs on what they actually want to merrit oposed to what they would like to merit. In my case Angon vs Wyvern survivle. Ppl say Angon so we can kill stuff faster, but empathy keeps my wyvern alive mush longer with protect/shell/3rd eye, and what-not, alowing me to max out damage with jump crits ect. I shouldent have to pick one or the other or a gimped version of both.
I'm sure others would agree.