Thief, Musketeer, Dark Knight, and Arcanist

[Alym]

This depends. In FFIV Cecil was a Dark Knight who atoned and became a paladin, two opposites on the spectrum. In FFXI a Dark Knight is one who walks a lonely road full of pain and suffering, but isn't locked into that profession.

If in FFXIV the job says you can be either/or, it'll make sense and you'd only be locked outta Paladin/Dark and be realistic, is it that big of a deal when only a fraction of people would realistically want to level Paladin AND Dark Knight?

You really will defend anything SE does or says. I wonder what they did to get this kind of loyalty from someone; I'd love to know the trick to it.

They would be leveling one class - Gladiator - and would then advance Paladin and/or Dark Knight through quests. They wouldn't be leveling both.

Also, if you think most people wouldn't be interested in using both jobs, you obviously haven't been paying attention to how most people level/progress through all classes currently in this game. It's the main feature of the armory system - play everything! I don't see why, with fees for extra characters, we shouldn't be able to access everything on one character especially when it conflicts with the Armory system.

The lore of Cecil doesn't have to exist in this game; they can create their own FFXIV lore for being able to use both Paladin and Dark Knight and I don't see a good gameplay reason to restrict players like that translation says. If the translation is correct and they choose to do that, I think it would be an extremely poor decision and in direct conflict with the Armory system.