dave_o said:
I think I took it the wrong way, but I like my Item abilities, so I'll switch out Improved Initative for Talented (Chemist).
Um... I think we're having a communications error here.
You can have, at any given point, two sets of abilities: one from your current job (in your case, archer), and one other that you have gained abiliities from.
In your case, you have spent JP and gained abilities in the Chemist class. Since you have done that, your second ability slot can be Item (the name of the ability list for Chemist) and have access to your chemist abiliites.
However, if you also had abiliites in say, fencer, then, as an archer, you would have to decide if your second ability set is the chemist's, or the fencer's.
Talented gives you an extra slot for ability lists. Thus, if you had fencer and chemist abilities, and were currently an archer, you could have both the fencer and chemist ability sets 'equipped'.