Interesting points. You mentioned not seeing people running around as 50 Lancers or Marauders I was considering doing that yesterday with my 50 pugilist but I opted out for 2 reasons: The soul crystal increases your stats and you lose 5 powerful skills from your job.

I think it would be interesting if the base class had 5 skills that the Job couldn't take advantage of i.e. if there were Pugilist skills that Monk couldn't use. This would give players a fun reason to choose the class over the job. It would be interesting if the class guilds continued to offer quests every 5 levels after 30 that awarded new skills.

Just throwing ideas around