[dev1049] New weapon skills

[Selzak]

They don't want people to be the best at every single job. It makes you focus on what you find the most important. This is really no different then combat merits. I played many MMOs and this seems to be a common theme in them, if they have some sort of point/talent system you can't be the best at everything the game has.

It's worth noting that FFXI's merit system is a bit different in that you can be the best at everything, just not at the same time. Most MMOs will make you buy another character for any kind of variation.

other games also tend to make you level whole new characters if you want to play a differnt class. I see no point to bring that into the argument tho.

If you want to max out all jobs, you can do it on separate characters on this game too. It's really always been this way- think Taru BLM and Taru WAR. The point is that this game has always worked around choosing to do certain things well, certain things decently, and certain things poorly (on a single character).