Quote Originally Posted by Nihility View Post
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I fully agree with all of that, but the thing is that the majority of new players won't even remember what they read on that little window which pops at level 10 or won't even read at all. There is also the thing that once, as a new player, you look at cross-class skills, for the majority of them it's not really game-breaking, most of them are completely useless (savage blade, skull sunder, impulse drive, cure, raise, and so on), and only a few of them bring most of the time very basic DPS boosts (B4B, IR, Raging Strikes, Hawks Eye, Invigorate, Mercy Stroke), or defensive abilities to get more survivability (Second Wind, Keen Flurry, Foresight, Bloodbath, Convo, Awareness, Mercy Stroke). Provoke is the ONLY exception to this, being a MANDATORY tanking skill which has NO REASON not to be included into EVERY tanking classes' BASE toolkit. It's just like if DRK didn't have Grit and had to cross-class Shield Oath instead. It's the EXACT same thing. It's just plain ridiculous and new players shouldn't be expected to guess by themselves that such an important tool for their role is missing and needs to be obtained from another class to even be viable at end-game.

Tho, as I said before, they could just improve the way that the game introduces you to cross-class abilities. I think that just putting this shitty pop-up at level 10 isn't enough because when you're only level 10, firstly you still don't have access to changing classes (you can only do that once you reach a certain point in the story which is closer to level 14-15 than 10), and secondly most people don't even want to try other classes, they want to see more about their current class, they want to level up and progress the story. So they think "I'll do that later", but most of the time they'll forget about it or don't even think that cross-class abilities are THAT important until they run into someone who tells them. If they improved that, by atleast putting a message on the level 30 job quest saying something like "Warning, if you don't have Provoke from the Gladiator class you'll have a hard time with other people !", THEN, we, as veteran end-game players, would have all the rights to EXPECT these new players to have read this message and get the Provoke.