Dev Team, show me you care about your players because I just don't see it (long read)

[Uriko]

You get to choose 10 skills from other classes. You're telling me that you would use 3 skill slots to get Aegis boon, Deflection, and Outmaneuver?

I personally don't use any of them (I don't use a shield, so it never was a concern for me). The point is that if mages want to use slots for the shield skills they should be able to- having to level a completely different class is an unneeded extra amount of grind. At least with the old system, you could use the shield on CNJ/THM and play mage while getting your shield skills. Now if you do want the shield-focused skills, you have to level a class that you might have no interest in playing.

To be honest, the shield skills should have been Gladiator ones from the very start, rather than having Sentinel as a separate class. That way this problem might not have happened. People are just irritated that they need to grind more to get abilities that they may have already learned.

As I said, we do need to wait and see how SE are handling the skill changes, but it doesn't change the amount of extra grinding THM/CNJ players need to do if they want shield skills again. Doesn't affect me personally but I can see why some players are up in arms.