Quote Originally Posted by Kaedan View Post
What if it was changed to something like Tactics?

In Tactics, you could learn skills from any Job you leveled up. HOWEVER, only certain skills could be equipped on your current class (with the exception of Squire maybe?). For example... Cure could be equipped on any Class, but Cure II+ could only be equipped on "Mage" classes or perhaps Gladiator to make a "Paladin-esque" character.

What do you guys think about that?
Yes it has been done, and decently balanced, though not totally. What you are suggesting is general skill set and exclusive skill set.

And some of that exists in FF14. Like "requirement : sword"

A more simpler way to do it would be to require -perquisites like cure 3 requires cure 1 and cure 2.

There are many ways to limit the equipping of skills. It is still a hassle to balance it though. It makes things less OP, then you still have a good couple of hundred skills to audit, and there's bound to be "best skill/combo for every class" problem we got now.

The developer suggestion of moving the physical level into the Class is one way of handling that. Can't go around using magic skills if you can't hit anything with it.