Are jobs bound by lore?

[RyuDragnier]

Remember that the Job system only really limits the PC because they're using Soul Crystals to basically cheat their way into skill.

I wouldn't say cheat. A lot of our progress in the jobs is already set in stone (ha!) by the time we get them, via lore reasons. Why does RDM start at 50? Because canonically the WoL has already leveled WHM and BLM (remember, all job quests are assumed done by the storyline when the X.1 patch kicks in), giving them large amounts of experience using both types of magic, and has leveled up multiple dexterous jobs giving them the basics they need to perform the acrobatics of the job well. By the end of the 2nd batch of job questlines, the WoL has already begun creating new moves. While the job stones give us the memories of the basics, we already have enough skill by that point to master them incredibly fast and then improve upon them.

[MrThinker]

I wouldn't say cheat. A lot of our progress in the jobs is already set in stone (ha!) by the time we get them, via lore reasons. Why does RDM start at 50? Because canonically the WoL has already leveled WHM and BLM (remember, all job quests are assumed done by the storyline when the X.1 patch kicks in), giving them large amounts of experience using both types of magic, and has leveled up multiple dexterous jobs giving them the basics they need to perform the acrobatics of the job well. By the end of the 2nd batch of job questlines, the WoL has already begun creating new moves. While the job stones give us the memories of the basics, we already have enough skill by that point to master them incredibly fast and then improve upon them.

Examples of our own moves include: Battle Litany (Dragoon), Living Shadow (Dark Knight), Dreadwyrm Trance (Summoner, we didn't learn this through the usual method, we had to go through a whole process to master it), Automaton Queen (Machinist) and every ability we learn through levelling rather than via job quests.