Quote Originally Posted by NoctisUmbra View Post
Accomplice is a rank 30 PGL skill... not LNC... :P

In all seriousness though, I don't believe they are necessary in all scenarios of tanking, however they serve as a great boon to one's ability to tank. If all it took to tank effectively was to rank GLA to 50 and be done, there'd be no long-term developmental goals.

The reason I ranked MRD and GLA up at all were to supplement my PGL tank with skills. The reason I ranked LNC was to get Invigorate II for my Archer. These goals keep me playing, trying out all the classes and discovering my unique playstyle.

My suggestions are in response to helping someone tank better - which with this system means accumulating hate more efficiently than the rest of the party's members.
My mistake regarding Accomplice.

I, too, only leveled MRD to 30 for my GLA and CON/THM for Cure/Sac II. I just don't know if I'm on board with this idea in the long term. If all cross-class abilities were restricted to, say, half the rank cap, I'd be much happier. I'm not against leveling other classes for some long-term goals, in a general sense. Perhaps they also restrict abilities such that only DoWs can share among DoWs, and DoMs share DoMs (or something). Just an idea though. There are tons of potential solutions and I'm hopeful the development team finds a good one.

I don't like the idea of a MRD or LNC casting Cure anyway, but maybe I'm too much of role-specific purist :P

I believe long term goals and character development should come from content achievements and gear acquisition. Leveling all classes seems like a bit of a gimmick. I also think being forced to level all classes to play a particular class effectively alienates a huge portion of the population (for time constraints). Achieving r50 should feel like you're ready to tackle endgame content - not feeling overwhelmed when having to grind out 6 more classes to some arbitrary rank for one or two random abilities.