4.4: Role Action slots increased to 10. Thoughts?

[HyoMinPark]

Didn’t the developers say that this is a temporary solution to the role skills problem, and that they plan to work out something better in the future? Just that they don’t have the time/resources for it right now?

Even with 10 slots, you don’t have to take all 10 skills. There’s still skills in there that are more or less useless in the majority of content for all roles.

[Aster_E]

Didn’t the developers say that this is a temporary solution to the role skills problem, and that they plan to work out something better in the future? Just that they don’t have the time/resources for it right now?

I'd hate to say this, but, knowing SE, it might be as temporary as the next expansion launch, or else forgotten until a year later when enough people ask about it in Q&A that's it's addressed in another half-assed measure.

[HyoMinPark]

I'd hate to say this, but, knowing SE, it might be as temporary as the next expansion launch, or else forgotten until a year later when enough people ask about it in Q&A that's it's addressed in another half-assed measure.

Okay, fair enough. But even still, the insistence that you have to take all 10 abilities is silly.

[Shurrikhan]

if you acknowledge that it's a band-aid fix, you shouldn't complain about the irritations of it being a band-aid.

So if I'm aware I've been shot in the gut, I shouldn't complain about the gut-wound?

I'm not saying the irritations here are severe, nor am I saying they haven't been lessened with the change, but how does that warrant make any sense?

[AxlStream]

So basically, reverting the button bloat they toned out at SB release? That was a fruitful change

[Jeykama]

It seems more like they realize now that role actions don't lead to any meaningful kind of choice, since depending on role there are like 3-4 basically mandatory ones 1-2 you'd prefer but would switch out for CC, and the rest are extremely extremely niche.
Maybe if each role action was equal in usefulness, sure, but they just rehashed them from existing abilities then scrapped/nerfed them.
Maybe a prelude to a future without role actions, who knows. Expansion coming up and all.

At any rate, it's not like letting us use all the role actions really adds more than a few buttons - how many of these role actions would you actually use beyond the 5? maybe another 2 or 3, that's all.

[Aster_E]

Okay, fair enough. But even still, the insistence that you have to take all 10 abilities is silly.

Well obviously, but the whole situation is silly by default too.

[bass9020]

1 extra role slot per 10 levels would be a nice change, so right now we should have 7 slots. This change I feel helps out the healers and tanks due to more of there role actions being used.

[AppleJinx]

It's a nice qol for no longer having to swap job actions in and out for different duties for all jobs so I like it very much.

[JunseiKei]

My thoughts are:

1) Sounds like prepping for 5.0.

2) Sounds like prepping for "semi" jobs / roles.