I'm attempting to do the same thing, but I may have made a poor choice of jobs in this game(scholars are good, I'm told, but the amount of skilling up I have to do is pretty outrageous), and an even poorer choice of letting myself be powerleveled. Now I'm spending a good deal of time playing catch-up as I skill up three weapons and six schools of magic. Would it be a total copout if I just unlocked samurai instead?