Quote Originally Posted by Grizzlebeard View Post
The problem with the branching is you end up having to specialise on one job or gimp both when it comes to the allocation of bonus attributes. This surely must undermine the whole concept of being able to play all jobs on one character because it essentially encourages you to marginalise one job in favour of another, albeit not permanently because of the GC item but seriously who wants to farm 10k seals everytime you want to play a job considering FATEs are rarely touched anymore.
Attributes don't have to be optimally allocated for the job you feel like playing. The effect of the 30 points is quite marginal, so you can either go for a mix that fits both SMN and SCH for example, or optimize for one and still be able to do good on the other.
In short, you don't HAVE to min-max.