Quote Originally Posted by bswpayton View Post
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I will give you that this game does not take time to explain the job system that well, it very much relies on if you've played a FF game that had the traditional job system. But the issue here is two sets of mechanics and lore clashing against each other. The job system was built in a way that you have a character specialize in some stuff and you can totally have some jobs borrow skills from other jobs, such as if you have a Knight who was once a Black Mage, that Knight can use some Black Mage spells but not any of the BIG spells.

The issue is, this system was not built back then to factor in something like the Glam system. Cause why would they? What purpose in say FFV is there for the Knight to make himself look like a Black Mage? It just creates confusion. There is also the fact that it would strip away the visual identity of some jobs and make them feel more generic (WAR's job gear really does give it it's identity, even if the armors they choose don't really scream Warrior in a traditional sense.) That's another mess by the way, the confusion allowing job gear to be glamoured would create, is just too spooky to think about. Trolls would have a HAYDAY with that kind of freedom.