Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-25369416-20140904103947/@comment-25407979-20140919091439

Novice points are indeed useless.

However, most classes have all their skills maxed out fairly quickly. If you were to get 10 Class levels for free, you'd be able to max out one complete skill right from the start.

The thing with changing classes is: You start out a novice who doesn't know what he should do, he gets better at "not knowing what to do". When you change class, he knows what to do, but its all new to him as he's never done stuff like that before.

Imagine "Novice" is a Baker - and "Mage" is electrician. Even if you were lv20 Baker --- those skills you earned don't translate to your new job very well... apart from GPU Baking.