Talk:Paradox/Jobs/@comment-29602226-20190302114913/@comment-33896168-20190302140522

not really. You keep all the skills and abilities learned, but depending on what job you change to next, you may not be able to use them. i.e. if you change from warrior to magician, you can't use sword skills or even equip swords. there are a couple work arounds though. if you master both, you can change to spellsword, an intermediate job. some characters have unique skills that let them use certain skill trees regardless of job. there are also accessories that let you use certain skills or weapons.

regarding ability points. they are tied only to what class you have. if you're a level 1 or level 10 warrior you have the same ability points. you use those ability points to equip abilities. for example. lv3 warrior gets the hp+10% ability. this has a cost of 3 ability points. you can "equip" the ability, and your combat ability points (as a warrior) will have 27pts remaining. you'll now have 10% more Max hp. if you were a mage before and got the mp+10% ability, you can equip that and (as a warrior) your magic ability points will have 7pts remaining. they can be unequipted at any time, so feel free to optimize them to your playstyle once you start.