JapanMS - Open-To-All Test Server; May 16th ~ 30th

I might be wrong about it though. I am going off of the limited information we have and how it seems so far. It is possible that passives are just job locked. Meaning you have to be at the job where the passive is. Such as 4th Job for Berserk.

Need more information before giving a final judgement on it. But I do believe it works like it does in private servers for now.

I gotcha.

Personally though, I'm under the impression that it works exactly like private servers do/did, as you said.
This whole thing seems pretty thrown together after all. For that reason, it seems highly unlikely that they would have purposefully put in any restraints.

Even if they had, it would be a fairly odd decision to limit just passive skills. After all, the strongest multipliers tend to be active, and the fact that 4th Job attacks are multitudes stronger than early jobs would seem to create a bigger imbalance than anything else.

Then again, the easiest way to test would be for him to simply equip a Polearm/Spear and look at his range. 0.o