Passive Cross-skills

[lyndwyrm]

Something like being able to cross-class Proshell, Graniteskin, or enhanced raise would be great for PLD and SCH. I would fully expect something like this to take one of the cross-class skill slots (assuming they didn't just add separate slots for it), but I would also not expect every trait to cross-classable, such as the flat stat bonuses, or enhanced brutal swing that can't be cross-classed anyways. That way, some classes that currently have few cross-class skills would have some more variety available.

WHM only has cross-class 6 skills, one of which is totally useless (Physick), BLM is in a similar position with Hawks eye (unless they change the effect for BLM, but i wouldn't know, I don't have the ability).

I would also expect them to do a little bit of balance testing to decide if there was any combination of these that would cause unbalance, like a bard taking enhanced Inner Release or paladin's having enhanced raise in pvp.

I think this would be interesting and allow for more specialization, but because it could change how effective each of the jobs are in relation to one another, it might take a lot of work to fairly implement. This could also give us more variety before the first level cap increase or adding a new class/job.

Also, is there a reason this is in Tank roles and not General discussion or Other battle systems?