Quote Originally Posted by Malakhim View Post
The armory system IS a variant of the license board system.

Instead of having to gain enough points to unlock an ability to use whenever you want, you rank up the class in which it belongs and eventually unlock the ability.
I don't mean with abilities, though the original poster might, I was thinking specifically as far as gear as concerned. For example, in FFXII if you wanted to wear a certain armor type, you had to unlock that armor type with points.

Let's say I'm a Gladiator. By default I have certain armor types available to me and unlocked. As I level up, I gain points. I can use these to unlock stronger armor along the trees available to me, or maybe I want to wear a different armor type and choose to unlock a whole new armor tree. Something like that.