Quote Originally Posted by Shurrikhan View Post
"Jobs Only" means that once someone has the greatsword, they alone have the greatsword.
...why?

Branching classes need to share a weapon type as much as jobs need to have different weapon types. Namely not at all. They do that for the sake of diversity, not because of necessity.

Scholars and Summoners both use books. From a certain arbitrary point onward, neither the base class Arcanist, nor Summoners can use Scholar Books and Scholars can't use Arcanist/Summoner Books either. And not just the weapons are separate and can't be used by each other - The entire gear is split, as casters can't use healing gear. Functionally, that is no different than if Scholar was a standalone job without any ties to Arcanist. If they had wanted to, they could have given it basketballs for a weapon instead and restrict books to ACN/SMN, because SCH weapons can be and later are separated from ACN/SMN weapons and thus can be a different type of weapon altogether.

And similarly, they could make a new job, give it a Greatsword and simply restrict the Greatswords intended for that job to that job so that DRK can't use them and vice versa - Just as they already do with ACN/SMN and SCH. They can also copy&paste skills over if they deem it fitting. Or not. They can tie it into a different job's lore or not as well.

The only real benefit to branches that I see is that you can get two for the price of one. Other than that, there's nothing you cannot do with one that you can do with the other - Adding talents to split skills instead of having them separate from the get-go just seems a bit more cumbersome.