Quote Originally Posted by Reynhart View Post
Technically, there's not that much difference between ROG and LNC. It doesn't prevent the game from creating two different jobs. If you take the Gladiator above, give it some debuffing spells, a "stance" that spends HP to buff each WS and a skill that deals more damage the less HP you have, you could come close to a real "Dark Knight" DPS that would feel very different from PLD.
My point is there's no real point to tying two jobs to a class when you can just make a completely new job with no restrictions in terms of how it has to interact with parts of a pre-existing kit.