Quote Originally Posted by Fawkes View Post
But if the skills are essential, and every job has to take them anyway, then why not just give everyone esuna/provoke/invigorate innately and only let people pick 4 out of 9 skills? What does making essential things optional do for us?

Simply put: Because they won't be essential in all situations. I am not claiming the system is perfect (because it isn't), but I kiiiiiinda see where they were attempting to go with it, and hopefully future iterations will be better.