Removal of cross-skills

[Shurrikhan]

It is to reduce button bloat. 10 abilities that can be swapped in and out of 5 slots only take up 5 buttons.

As compared to the... 5 buttons... taken by cross-class skills. The slot count is identical. And both are customizable at CD-cost whenever out of combat or no cost at all in sanctuaries. No change in those regards.

That said, hopefully we'll have a wider range of viable choices for what we assign to those 5 slots now.

Its 5 customizable buttons rather than just giving all 10 abilities individual buttons. They keep the button total down by not forcing players to find room for 5 more buttons.

The cross-role skills are not customizable any more than the current cross-class skills. It looks like Fell Cleave / Inner Beast may be getting that sort of treatment, but not the cross-role skills. You can simply equip and swap them out as you please, but that's it, identically to cross-class skills now. You have 5 abilities that you can choose 5 from among a larger number of skills, and then you can bind them to whatever hotbar slot you please.

Now, in the sense that Provoke, Convalescence, and/or Awareness might not be necessary for Paladin or Brutal Swing for Warrior, that not all healers would necessarily need their (massive and hugely effective) mana regen / threat drop CD, and this new system allows you to put something else in its place, either as a native skill or a different cross-role, I suppose in that sense there's added customization, but in every other sense they are identical.