Idea: Merit system

[linay]

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I'm kind of liking these ideas, but of course it depends on actual implementation. Some things are actually not as good when implemented as when thought of on paper.

Unless they give you more than just passive stat increases (and it has to be either a very good active ability or game-breaking passive), racial bonuses are usually only relevant for a couple years at most in any MMO. As soon as mudflation hits, minor stat bonuses are worthless.

Examples of this are dwarf priests in WoW having fear break or undead being passively immune to certain CC (game-breakingly good and caused the entire system to get re-balanced) vs Troll regeneration in EQ (stopped being relevant less than 10% into the games lifespan)

I hope FFXIV never have racial abilities. I like race to be purely cosmetic.

[Nalien]

I'm kind of liking these ideas, but of course it depends on actual implementation. Some things are actually not as good when implemented as when thought of on paper.

Eureka is a prime example of that I feel, so I'll just defer to my original statement;

Instead of a Merit System I think I'd prefer a more robust Relic Weapons system, but Lord knows SE will never be able to deliver on that...

It's fun brainstorming concepts though, even if SE will never even see these posts, much less be able to implement them in any meaningful way.