Suggestion: Link PvP skills to jobs/class similar to stats

One thing I've come to really enjoy about FFXIV is how you can play multiple jobs and classes all on the same character. I remember back on WoW that it became tiresome to level up multiple characters so that you could get additional professions or to try out a different class so the ability to swap between your jobs/classes in FFXIV all on the same character is an awesome system in my opinion.

However, with the way the PvP system currently is with unlocking your PvP abilities, it seems to discourage playing as other jobs/classes different that your primary. Now I understand that the cost of the item that'll reset all your points is going to be adjusted, but in reality is that a viable solution to the situation? Personally I have WAR, DRG, and SMN all at 50 and would love to do some PvP on each class. Currently though, it's just not viable spending marks to reset your PvP skills everytime you want to use a different job/class.

My proposal is that the PvP skills become linked to that specific job/class and switching to a different job would provide you with your points back, similar to how stats work. If you go 30 strength as a DRG and switch to your SMN, you're not forced to keep the 30 strength, why should you be forced to keep the DRG PvP skills that you can't use without paying for a respec?

Despite this, I think that a respec item should still be in place, it should just respec the points for the job you use it on. Once again in a similar fashion to stats, if you spend your GC seals for a stat reset, it resets stats on the specific job that you're currently playing, not all of your jobs.

In closing, a PvP respec cost should still exist in the event that you want to redo the PvP skills you selected for a specific job, but having to pay this cost to switch skills between different jobs just seems asinine.

Another important point of pvp, please save hotbars to your item set. That way you can have different hotbars for pvp and PvE.

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Originally Posted by Marveth

Another important point of pvp, please save hotbars to your item set. That way you can have different hotbars for pvp and PvE.

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I hadn't even thought of that but that's another really good point.