Quote Originally Posted by KamikazeMan View Post
Yeah, there will only be ranks now and you'll gain stat boosts every time you rank up. Not sure if you have to distribute points or if it will be automatic distribution among your stats.
From what I'm understanding, there will be an automatic point distribution when you rank up, but you'll also gain a small pool of points that you can allocate to whatever, and they'll actually have some kind of effect as opposed to the broken physical level thing.

And so far yes, chocobos and airships are confirmed for patch 1.19.