Class changing, are we unique?

[RobinMalvin]

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I always think that whenever we complete job quests and get new skills, when the text says something like "crystal resonates" that means the soul crystal bestows upon us skills of old i.e skills that have been discovered by the soul crystal's previous owner and been recorded inside the crystal. BoTD and its related skills fall on this category so I believe that the skills are quite common among high level dragoons.

Blood of The Dragon in my opinion, is tapping into the the power of dragon inside, which actually makes sense if Ishgardian dragoons can do that because

Every Ishgardian has Ratatoskr's blood in them.

As to why WoL can use BoTD, I never notice it implied it's because of our link with Midgo though of course I may have missed it, but isn't it possible that somehow somewhere, we have dragon as ancestor? Or maybe someone in our line committed the same crime Thordan I and his knights did?

[Jonnycbad]

I mean, we also have Dragonsong Dive to point to some concrete evidence we're drawing upon our bond with Middy...

Except you could do Dragonsong Dive as a level 50 DRG without ever meetin Middy. Whena re the blue aether trails shown to be associated with Middy also?

[Morningstar1337]

Except you could do Dragonsong Dive as a level 50 DRG without ever meetin Middy. Whena re the blue aether trails shown to be associated with Middy also?

TBF a Level 50 SMN can also use Teraflare despite not getting the abilities of Bahamut until 58

[Mysteltain]

TBF a Level 50 SMN can also use Teraflare despite not getting the abilities of Bahamut until 58

And let's not, further, forget that it wasn't even until Heavensward that every class got a unique LB3. So basically what we have is one of those odd lines drawn between "what is canon" and "what is gameplay".

[Shadotterdan]

I feel like pointing out, that while you resonate with the job crystal up to 50, post 50 job quests give a different message, I know BLM is new spells translated from the books of Nald'Thal and WHM is caused by your white magic growing stronger as you fight the taint.

[Balipu]

I think Godbert can class change. Not sure about the rest.

[Harz]

Broken Mountain went from being a Warrior to an Arcanist or perhaps a Scholar between the ARR and HW Warrior questlines.

Frey, despite being a Dark Knight, is also by all accounts extremely well versed in conjury. To the point where apparently Sid believes

that if the Ishgardians had let him keep his staff instead of forcing him to use his greatsword, he'd have won the duel that cost him his life.

That's two examples I can think of.

[Shai]

I think the implication is that everyone can change their class/job at will whenever they like, but the WoL is able to learn at a massively enhanced rate due to their affinity with the various soul crystals they possess. Chalk this up to the Echo; it gives us the ability to learn from the memories stored in soul crystals really easily.

For other characters learning a class/job is like a lifetime investment so very few ever branch out to more than one or two.

TL;DR The Warrior of Light is special!

This is how I always interpreted it as well.

And to be fair, there are many Echo users and (apparently) various type of Echo users.
I have always assumed that it wasn't exclusive to the WoL but to anyone with an Echo if they put their mind to learning new disciplines.
Though I'm not sure there's any evidence of that quite yet. The true nature of the Echo remains shrouded in mystery.

[TinyRedLeaf]

I might as well add this note before the thread disappears from the front page:

As it turns out, all it takes for a run-of-the-mill adventurer to change classes is some studying (and perhaps a senior adventurer to sponsor his education).

• Contemporary Warfare: Offense
• Contemporary Warfare: Defense
• Contemporary Warfare: Magicks

So, there. There's nothing particularly unique about changing classes. It's no different from choosing a new career, and learning all about it as you go along. It just happens that the WoL (and possibly those with the Echo) learns faster than the average Joe.