[dev1033] Ideas for a Two-Tier Class System: Jobs on Top of Weapon Specializations

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Novice, Apprentice, Journeyman, Advanced, Master, Expert, etc?

Yes that would be good. Its nothing major or something that would be a MUST... However, I just feel it would better to say "My GLA is R50 and I'm a Expert Dark Knight." At least something along the lines to that. Instead of I'm a rank 50 GLA and a lv10(R10?) Dark Knight.

This would be really cool actually. Obviously you aren't going to have to level your title from 1-50 the same way you level your weapon class since there won't be that many class-specific skills to learn. This idea of Ranks was actually something they had in crafting in FFXI (recruit, initiate, novice,..., veteran). Each rank could give you a new ability and/or new traits.

So with DRK:
Dark Knight - Recruit learns Arcane Circle & Attack Bonus
Dark Knight - Initiate learns Last Resort & Resist Paralyze
Dark Knight - Novice learns Weapon Bash & Arcana Killer
Dark Knight - Apprentice learns Soul Eater & Attack Bonus II

I'm just using FFXI as an example, but seems like something like this would work.

How to hit those rank thresholds is definitely up for debate, but maybe just gaining job points at the end of combat or through leves/quests might be the simplest. Since gaining a new rank has a new rank name I think having a kind of "test" quest would be really appropriate/fun like NorthernSky suggested.