I'm not sure if this is the right place for this, but...

[Firinia]

I just finished doing the quest that gets you the AF weapon and the Bell for GEO, and I equipped the club and noticed that for some reason, the +108 club skill and parry skill isn't added on to my skills in the Combat Skills menu. I'm not sure if this has been noticed by anyone or already addressed, but this also occurs when I equip my Lehbrailg, which has +54 staff skill and parry skill. Is the skill not supposed to show, or is this a bug of some sort?

In contrast, the +15 Geomancy Skill on the new bell shows up just fine.

[Deifact]

http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxi/threads/35239-Item-Levels

Read this!

[Firinia]

Ah, that clears that up, thanks. :)

[Kristal]

It's because these combat skill+ stats are only applied to hit/parry/guard with the weapon itself, otherwise 1H weapons could double up on skill for some seriously powerboost. (And physical blue magic would start to break physics...)