Quote Originally Posted by Synrin View Post
No. Sorry, but that is a horrible idea. There is a very popular MMO out there that did just that and every single class lost its class identity.
How? How does using another Jobs skills add to any sense of class identity? How does giving Jobs their own version of these cross-class skills remove any identity?

Having Second Wind on Ninja does not add to Ninjas identity, meanwhile there is a heal skill NPC Ninjas use (Suiyaku), which... You know... Would... Add to that the potential for these to be earned from "optional" quests, and you've provided more lore to the Jobs than before, while providing unique skills that fill the same function as the existing cross-class skills. That's not to say Suiyaku should be a carbon copy of Second Wind, it could be more/less potent, have a shorter/longer cooldown, could tie into existing Ninja mechanics (the Venoms), etc. etc.. Overall that does a lot more for class identity than setting Second Wind...

And for those worried about the fact that cross-class skills exist to have you "sample" other Jobs... Well, Jobs already do that, and such quests could carry on the additional class requirement the first Job quests had. Even tie in with the old classes; The quest for Suiyaku could have you taking your Ninja friends to Ul'dah to learn from the Pugilists, for example. Naturally you'd need Pugilist leveled for that. Actually having quests like that would make it far more obvious what skills you want to set as well. There would be no Warriors who don't know what Provoke is, because they'd see the quest unlocking their version of Provoke and work towards doing that quest.