Not a real Final Fantasy

[Valmonte]

I don't know where this thread went,
but,
I know from personal experience,
the only way to get better with a martial art or weapon style (in this case)
is by doing.
That's why I like the Armoury System; it represents a different growth than most games. It starts with: choose a basic weapon, then you learn it, then you learn the actual Job when you get the Job. But it all builds basically off a guy/girl randomly running out into the wilderness with a cruddy metal sword and learning how to stab/slash/whatever marmots, dodos, wolves, etc.

Except your not learning a tool of war your learning a class. just because you select a class that's proficient in its use doesn't make you an expert swords man right auto the box, this game seems to think it does.

[Alerith]

Except your not learning a tool of war your learning a class. just because you select a class that's proficient in its use doesn't make you an expert swords man right auto the box, this game seems to think it does.

Except you're not an expert swordsman right out of the box. Level 0 would be no skill. Level 1 would be beginner, and this is reflected in your skill list. I don't know about you, but I sure as hell didn't have things like Rage of Halone, Goring Blade, Chaos Thrust, Simian Thrash and the like at level one.

I had to earn of series of points that showed I had experience with the class.....what do they call those again?

[TheVedis]

Except you're not an expert swordsman right out of the box. Level 0 would be no skill. Level 1 would be beginner, and this is reflected in your skill list. I don't know about you, but I sure as hell didn't have things like Rage of Halone, Goring Blade, Chaos Thrust, Simian Thrash and the like at level one.

I had to earn of series of points that showed I had experience with the class.....what do they call those again?

i think those are called magic points
or maybe levels, could be either

[Falen]

Except your not learning a tool of war your learning a class. just because you select a class that's proficient in its use doesn't make you an expert swordsman right out of the box, this game seems to think it does.

*Fixed it for you
If this game thought you did, they wouldn't talk about a character not having enough experience for certain quests or for Job quests say that you are learning something by doing this. I almost wish it was something like, "Fight this NM three times, and you'll have Jump only for this fight until you use Jump in the fight with this guy at least 3 times!" But that'd be hard for them to do.
And you would have all your skills at Level 1. Is it hard to learn to swing a sword? No!
Is it hard to learn how to swing properly, when to swing and when to block? To evade and beat? Yes, very much so!
I have experience in martial arts, so I know how it is to "Level Up" your skill over time. At first, you swing a hundred times, then two hundred, then 5, then a thousand, etc. etc. Just like each swing is an experience point you're earning.