Quote Originally Posted by bungiefanNA View Post
They said when they introduced iLeve equipment that skill levels gained from weapons would not show up in the player information. You get the effect of the skills being there on your accuracy and damage, but they don't show in the skill level information, because they aren't applied in that way so that jobs that shouldn't have certain weaponskills can't get them unlocked because of the weapon. They didn't want jobs with a D rating in a weapon to be able to have the A-level weaponskills. If it shows in that menu, it counts to unlock weaponskills.
Complete nonsense. Weaponskills are locked out to certain jobs only, not simply generic by skill.

The only reason that it is how it is, is because of Dual Wield.

If you equip a 119 dagger in main and off-hand, you'd have +484 skill showing in the menu if it didn't work how it does. It's like this because the stats are worked out individually for main and off-hand.

On that note, I never understood why they didn't just make it work normally for 2H and H2H.