Quote Originally Posted by Cairdeas View Post
The job IS a cookie cutter build you wont be making many changes from it.
Of course not, if you are a paladin you are a tank and with the job will come the necessary traits/stats to perform in your role. BUT you still have the choice of what abilities you want to set on your action bar.

With your suggestion it's almost like forcing people to use X and X skill if they want to perform in their role. Everyone will be expected to have X and X ability set for Y role they want to perform. Else they will be subpar.

Integrating the stats/trait with the jobs is much more logical since if you invite a paladin in your group, you know that he will have the proper stats to do his role, and the white mage will have the traits/skills to do his role, regardless of what combination of skills/spells they have set on their bar.