Suggestion: How to not raise level cap while keeping experience relevant

[Reinfeld]

SE is actually very good about having every skill be meaningful.

One Ilm Punch. Twice the TP of other skills, half the potency, and the only things that can be dispelled are so worthless that they aren't worth dispelling (With the exception of a single leveling FATE). I think the Devs forgot it existed since it's never been tweaked.

@OP I've though about the Merit system from FFXI too, but I don't know if it would really add anything to the game. FFXI was mostly about how fast you could chain mobs so small boosts to your weapon skill or STR helped, whereas FFXIV is mostly Clumping 10 mobs together and spamming aoe or finely tuned fights. And honestly, there's not really much "customization" as far as merit points go. All you would be doing would be picking skills to raise their damage potency, or adding 5 Determination. It's just kind of boring. Also they've finally gotten most of the DPS to a relatively balanced state, but screwing with numbers like that could potentially throw the balance out of whack again.

-If they allowed people to use merit points on every job equally (similar to your bonus attributes from leveling) the Devs would just increase the stats on Raid content to make full merits required thus negating the existence of merits (Aside from making Trash dungeons easier, but they could also just lower the stats on mobs for the same effect).
-If you only had a limited allocation and had to pick a job then they'd get 5 new threads a day asking for the ability to use merits on every class (see SMN/SCH and attribute points). Then at least for the Savage content they would still raise the difficulty so the hardcore raiders wouldnt clear it in 3 days , but the raiders would complain also because they could only bring a single job to savage.

That said, if there's some way to make it interesting and truly customizable I'd be all for it I just don't think it can be done.