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All skill trees reset passes are occasionally distributed for free (mostly when there's balance updates or when the level cap is increased).
Also usually they give one pass per character in the account, so if you create characters in all 3 free character creation slots, you can get 3 passes next time they're distributed (note that as long as you have 3 characters, you can recreate those characters freely, but, if you purchase a 4th character, if you delete one of the 4 chars, you won't be able to create another char unless you purchase another character creation pass).
Probably will be the same on the NA server but might actually be somewhat different.

As for creating new characters ASAP, there is even more stuff this is useful for and with the only real difference between race and gender being looks and available fashion and being able to change everything else with a free pass you can't make any major mistakes by rushing character creation.

Anyway, hu sub is the best option for melee (including fi), It's like 70% unconditional damage buff for melee and 10% less for ranged, but only 30% or so for force and only for JA (I think technically Charge JA addition procs all skills related to JA like Hunter JA Bonus) it's no good for force but it's pretty good for te because te uses wand normal attacks a lot which get buffed by hunter.

Hunter also has some very good survivability, e.g. 1 SP in Iron Will is a 30% chance to survive with 1 HP if you would normally have died and HP is above 1 (also 5s invulnerability if it procs) an maxed it's 75%.

Bouncer and braver are mediocre for melee sub because hunter sub has both significantly more damage and significantly more surviviability and other classes make little sense.

For force you got several options, classic is te to boost more elements (gauge based compound techs are very important and te provides half their damage and it also boosts damage for Re Zandia which is awesome mobbing and re barantsia which is decent bossing because it fills the compound gauge rapidly) as well as epic pp refill options, 40% at all times, 350% when standing still for 1 second (PP restorate must be maxed because it's so good) and 25% hp recovery and +60% natural pp regen when treating your or another's bad status.

Also has indirect survivability from buffing light element and additionally resta buff so on force uncharged resta heals a good amount (1st tick almost instant, 2nd tick takes ~1s) and also lets your Deband reduce all damage by 15% even if it's the sub class.

Alternative if you got very good pp management (remember keeping damage up and not bursting with breaks has considerably higher total damage over the whole quest) fi is indeed a good option for the unconditional 35% damage from brave (valiant?) stance on the wrong side which increase to 54% if on the right side (wise just too unreliable) and an additional 15% if you alternate techs / pas with JA (Perfect Attack but some skills on NA apparently keep JA in the name) which also reduces PP consumption by 15%.

And then there is braver. Since you'll be charging virtually all offensive techs so it's an unconditional 39% damage increase with average stance and a 63% damage increase if you use weak stance and hit an enemy's weakness (0% if not and most of the time you won't, also be sure not to accidentally prevent yourself from making a good braver build by maxing both stances, needs some sp juggling). Braver doesn't offer any pp regen boost either and slight survivability if you do a j reversal you can heal 20% of max HP (monomate is 30%)

Then there is su. You get 32% unconditional damage increase and for 1 target at a time an additional 35% but last only 40s at a time and has a 5s cd.
Su also has some survivability like healing 7.5% of max HP every 5s when your health drops low enough (maxed it even procs at 100%) and has options for raising all atk and all def by 200 each but I don't think you can still get a good su build if you get those 200 all atk and all def. Su is also has a 10sp skill to raise HP by 100 but again only get if you don't wanna play su main any time soon.