Quote Originally Posted by Palslow View Post
but for example, white mage can have one handed weapon or 2 handed, or paladin can have shield and sword, dancers can have something similar in that fashion too.
WHM and BLM having one handed weapons and a shield is from ARR when I think they had a lot of ideas about how the class and job system might work but ultimately ended up with just a linear path. I suspect they might have had an idea about numerous jobs stemming off of one base class, but after ACN turned out to be a disaster splitting it between SMN and SCH they decided not to mess with it.