Quote Originally Posted by Alhanelem View Post
Totally agree on that, it's completely needeless, especially with how fast XP is today. While they're at it, they should look at summoning, geomancy, and automaton ranged skill too, because those are awful as well.
Passive skills (Geomancy, Enhancing, Songs, Healing magic) should have skill up rate higher than aggressive skills such as weapons/attack magics. Even defensive skills such as Guard, Evasion, and Parry are excessively easy to raise since you can swarm monsters of the appropriate level against yourself or just go to Abyssea with with Cloak/Dagger+Ducal Guard+Mounted Champion. I got +200 Parry and +75 Evasion in less time than it took me to get +50 Great Sword on RUN.