Merit System

[Kairyu]

doesnt have to be like the one in 11, a sphere grid or something would be cool. I just hope there is something for us after we reach the max lvl

[Arcell]

doesnt have to be like the one in 11, a sphere grid or something would be cool. I just hope there is something for us after we reach the max lvl

Well as someone who never played XI, I have no idea what the "merit system" even entails at all. That's the problem with having absolutely no explanation in the OP. Believe it or not some people didn't play XI and have no idea what you're talking about, or maybe it's just me.

[TomCarroll]

I'd rather not have a talent tree, but I'd like something to drop points into to power up my character slightly more.

Agreed. Even blizzard realized that talent trees are old news, which is why they nixed them in the most recent version of wow. I'd like a system that gave us some abilities that allowed us to differentiate our characters without having clear "bests".

[Shougun]

Well as someone who never played XI, I have no idea what the "merit system" even entails at all. That's the problem with having absolutely no explanation in the OP. Believe it or not some people didn't play XI and have no idea what you're talking about, or maybe it's just me.

Graphically its a mess and Id argue down any idea of bringing it back graphically (its basically the classic FF way too many menus type of deal).

Game play wise when you hit max level you still collect EXP once you get enough EXP (I think its basically a levels worth of EXP) you get a point you can spend on things like faster attack speed or more health. You can spend the points for your character in general or spend them on class specifics. There was a limit on how many points you could put into each category.

In short it adds levels where you get to customize what "leveled up" about your character.

[Tetsaru]

Well as someone who never played XI, I have no idea what the "merit system" even entails at all. That's the problem with having absolutely no explanation in the OP. Believe it or not some people didn't play XI and have no idea what you're talking about, or maybe it's just me.

Here: http://wiki.ffxiclopedia.org/wiki/Category:Merit_Points

Long story short, after you reach the level cap, you can still gain "exp," but when you "level," you instead get a merit point, which can be spent to either improve your stats or enhance your abilities.

I didn't play FF11 long enough to get to that point, but a friend of mine who did said that, alongside level syncing (which I have no idea why they didn't implement it in FF14, it was ingenious imo), it made it to where both low-level and high-level players could do things together.

[Sav]

Sphere grid, licence board, talent trees..

Unless each is directly linked to a class/job good luck making the system balanced enough to encourage rather then killing the freedom that the job system brings.

(Then you run into what WoW found out that there is only one or two good builds - so good luck making each skill desirable...)

^^^ My vote is for a license board.

[NinjaPanda]

Talent tree's are a pretty bad design when you can't have multiple characters. I would hate to have my character only good in one structure to later find out that I'm not good for certain boss fights.

Merits is too much for early on in the game as well. I would love to focus on the battles instead of trying to find a new balance with skills.

[TomCarroll]

Talent tree's are a pretty bad design when you can't have multiple characters. I would hate to have my character only good in one structure to later find out that I'm not good for certain boss fights.

Merits is too much for early on in the game as well. I would love to focus on the battles instead of trying to find a new balance with skills.

I disagree with this. Only because each class would undoubtedly have its own tree that wouldn't affect your other classes.

There needs to be some sort of build system if they want to seriously tackle pvp.

[Nuru]

I would like to have points aside from exp from mobs, so you can spend on learning and expanding on skills. I don't think they should come easy though, maybe you should only get them after completing dungeons and stuff.

[odintius]

I like the idea of license boards from FFXII and it would fit with which ever grand company you've joined adding another feature to it. Add them in Tier's for level 50 are tier 1 then for future level cap tier 2 license etc. but each job is separate and can spec it individually and some depth to this feature.