FINAL FANTASY XI Skill Cap Chart

Every job has available to them various combat and magic skills with different caps on each available skill.
If a skill is not normally available to that job, it's cap is implied to be zero.
When the cap has been reached for that job at that level, the skill level indicator turns blue for that value.

Some jobs have greater proficiency with a specific skill than others and thus can reach a much greater level before hitting it's cap.
Generally, increases in skill give the user increased accuracy and potentcy in the associated abilities.

The value that a skill caps at is called it's Rank. From levels 1 to 60 there are five ranks; A through F.
Beyond 60 the Ranks split farther into + and - subdivisions.

For melee and ranged weapons, reaching specific milestones grants the useage of new weaponskills.
While all classes that can attain that prerequisite level can learn it, not all jobs will actually be able to use it.
Each job is flagged with hidden values that determine what weaponskills are available to them (assuming they are at or above the required skill level.)

Equipping certain items or applying merit points will allow the player to use weaponskills otherwise not available to them at that time. The only exception is that for quested weaponskills they must be at or beyond the associated level without the aid of equipment or merits.

For example: Red Lotus Blade is an EX Sword weaponskill. While a Red Mage would be able to learn it, it would not be able to actually use it unless their subjob is either WAR, PLD, DRK or BLU.

Another example: While Bards can reach the required level to use Savage Blade, they are not able to use it under any circumstance because they cannot do the associated quest.
Even completing the quest on a different job will not make it available to them while on Bard.

Note: Skills can only be increased if it is natively available to that job. Skills types gained from a sub-job will not increase from usage.

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The cap can be calculated using the following formula.
The formulas vary depending on level and skill rank.
(The decimal is dropped at the end of each calculation.)

Levels 86-99 are preliminary estimates.

Weapon skills are catagorized into their respective weapon types and by what jobs can use them.

                       -- : Available once skill level is reached
                       EX : Requires Main job or Sub job as listed
                       SP : Only available for that Job
                       QU : Only available for jobs that can complete prerequisite quest
                    Relic : Requires matching weapon is equipped in main hand
                   Mythic : Only available for job that quested it
                 Campaign : Only available with matching weapon equipped during campaign
                 Empyrean : Requires matching weapon is equipped in main hand