Taking a look at role skills

Square, would you consider making certain role skills into passive traits instead of actual skills? I'm referring in particular to BRDs, but I guarantee there are plenty of examples where you'd want to make this change (NIN role class changing Jug to stun instead of leg sweep, taking interject on PLD adding the silence back to SW, MNKs and Steel Peak stun or whatever, etc.). Anyway, I'm specifically referring to Mage's Ballad/Army's Paeon and Refresh/Tactician. See, you kept and changed the original abilities while making new ones with their old effects, which sort of works against the goal of pruning abilities. Here's my solution: have those two role skills add passive effects to MB and AP that do the same thing at a reduced potency. After all, MB/AP have much shorter cooldowns, so leaving them as strong would be a little too powerful.

Instead of big, beefy emergency-style cooldowns, they'd fulfill the role of nice, steady top-off effects, hopefully leading to the same net benefit as before, just applied in a different way. And maybe Palisade could find its way into Minuet somehow? Like a 5% damage reduction for the whole group? I don't know, I'll leave that up to you. And obviously there would have to be similar changes made to MCHs to keep things balanced, but I don't know enough about that class to comment on it.

Anyway, these are some changes that I'd love to see make it into 4.1, but if it takes you until 4.2 or something to really polish them up, that's fine too. I'm looking forward to you guys making this game better as time goes on. I really think you can do it, too, once you put your minds to it.

PS. Make Peloton an aura on the caster like Swiftsong used to be.

And bring back Sustain.