(08-07-2013, 12:40 PM)Ildur Wrote: References are on the main FFARR website, in the description of jobs. Basically, all jobs are supposed to be an ancient lost art that almost nobody can use.The main FFARR site says White Mage's art is in revival and there is no mention of scarcity in the Dragoon section. I don't mean to derail the original topic so I'll just make a separate thread.
This is the result of the storyline being planned as a singleplayer game: there, you don't have to worry about having thousands of player characters sharing space and all of them being masters of some ancient art that is canonically lost. It's a segregation between gameplay and story  caused by poor planning.
http://ffxiv-roleplayers.com/showthread.php?tid=3353