Merit Point Adjustments

[dev1210] Merit Point Category Expansion

A new entry, Maximum Merit Points, will be added to the “HP/MP” merit point category.
Placing one point in this category adjusts the character’s maximum number of merit points by one, up to a possible fifteen.
The maximum number of points that can be spent in the following general categories will be increased.

Category Pre-adjustment Post-adjustment
HP/MP 15 → 45
Attributes 24 → 45
Combat Skills 32 → 56
Magic Skills 32 → 48

The maximum number of points that can be spent in the following specific categories will be increased.

Category Pre-adjustment Post-adjustment
Specific Attributes 12 → 15
Guarding, Parrying, Shield, and Evasion skills 4 → 8

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I do hope they also raise the caps. Example as a magic user you can have +16 skill in a category. I would love to raise my staff skill to the heavens as well as dark magic. Not just take the extra points and put them in Geo or bard singing.

But we shall see.

The maximum number of points that can be spent in the following specific categories will be increased.

Category Pre-adjustment Post-adjustment
Specific Attributes 12 → 15
Guarding, Parrying, Shield, and Evasion skills 4 → 8

the cap on HP and MP logically has to be raised for there to be the potential of 45 upgrades in total.

35HP merits and 10MP merits here I come! (dat Oneiros Ring)

Nope. Pretty clear right there. 15 HP 15 MP 15 Merit. They aren't raising the cap on HP or MP.

So we're using Merit Points to increase our Maximum Merit Points?

Oh SE.

Reading and comprehending what has been read is proven to be difficult for many it seems.

I'm having trouble with that myself. From what I read it sounded like they were letting us open up 15 extra merits to add to our totals but if you look at the numbers that doesn't make sense. Does each max merit point open up a category or something? Otherwise why go from 32 - 56 combat skill merits if we can only upgrade 15 of them?

Gives us more merits into weapon skills or something really new and exciting.

Any less-drastic change bores me and strikes me as just something else I need to grind through when I'm already grinding merits out the wazoo for key items.

Didn't they ask if they should make the cap 100 instead of 99 a few years back? The playerbase voted for 99 IRC.

Didn't they ask if they should make the cap 100 instead of 99 a few years back? The playerbase voted for 99 IRC.

I think they just don't want to have to deal w/ subjobs anymore than they already have when increasing to 99