Battle System Rant

[Ekimmak]

... and Provoke + Aggro combo was already a good way to tank swap so it was really unnecessary to give tanks Shirk and Ultimatum(Ultimatum is better than Shirk on tanks because it's an AoE Provoke)

You underestimate how useful Shirk is to the raider scene. For people who want to spend as little time in tank stance or aggro combo'ing as possible, a 25% boost to current threat is a big help. Considering how quickly I can catch up to a main tank after a round of Inner Release, being able to cut my own threat is pretty important. Ultimatum is actually what I see as pointless: it's just an aoe provoke with a longer cooldown. Large groups of mobs don't last long enough to need anything beyond Overpower/Flash/Abyssal Drain.

By that logic, why aren't Cure and Raise role actions?

Funnily enough, both WERE available for cross-class before the revamp. Cure has a higher potency than Physick to make up for the latter having a fairy helping them.

When skills have differences in order to balance them (such as proc'ing something, a different cost or a different potency) they aren't good for role skills. I'm assuming that's why Anticipation doesn't get stronger on DRK to make up for taking away Dark Dance. I can only assume Raise stopped being cross class because of Resurrection, since they didn't want to take that away from Summoner.

The only case I know of where a role skill interacts with an actual job's toolset is how Paladin gets a boost to intervention if Rampart is up, but the thing is, it's not the job changing the role skill, it's the role skill changing the job, which I believe is easier to program.

You are correct about how little choice there is. They might as well let us equip all ten at once.