I think there's a misinterpretation about skillchains in FFXI. If you have a party of 5 people, they might look for a particular 6th person who has sufficiently levelled their skill in a
weapon so as to make a proper skillchain. Different weapons provide different weapon skills at different levels to different classes. The order in which weapon skills are used and which weapon skills are used and against which mobs they're used is all significant. With so many combinations, while a player might not get picked by a particular party because they haven't mastered a particular weapon to a given level such that they have a skill necessary to make a chain for the right magic burst (inhale), they're not going to get skipped over as a general rule just because of their class or weapon... (let's not get into the misconceptions about DRG, please).
