I think it's a good idea to remove this physical level system. Within the first month of release, I realized how strange and pointless having a physical level was. Very quickly "Your physical level means nothing" was said to pretty much everyone of my friends that tried FFXIV out with me. We could never stay within the rank range of each other, because of the randomness of skill-up like SP, and the skimp rewards of physical level came more steadily from crafting and DoH classes. The slight advantage of physical levels (Mainly HP dictated from VIT and MND on MP) came not from battle, but from crafting, which just didn't make sense to me.