Talk:Vocations/@comment-4629826-20120529170232/@comment-75.94.172.142-20120606020147

You can mitigate that effect by changing to a vocation that's within one step of your current one in most cases. For example; rather than switching directly from strider to fighter switch to assassin first. That gives you the ability to continue using (in this example) your daggers and bow while unlocking new sword and shield skills.