4.4: Role Action slots increased to 10. Thoughts?

[Rockette]

Wild theory here but I don't think this decision was made for next expansion. Yoshi has clearly said many times he wanted the role actions to be a choice/raid decision when all the healers were complaining (rightfully, imo, since they were the ones that were the most affected).

I think it's got something to do with how they're now saving details server side and something to do with synching there, and maybe to the new app.

This is a really weird decision at a really strange time. I'm willing to bet it's got a technical reason, rather than anything else.

[Clover_Blake]

I don't even understand what the problem with the role actions is, or why increasing its slots is causing such a ruckus (?)
I'm personally glad that I'll be able to use some skills that I couldn't before. What's wrong with that?

[Ameela]

They probably just looked at the stats of how many people were taking certain skills (I mean, has anyone ever slotted Crutch ever?) and made this decision so the lesser-used skills would get some love from the player-base, Eye for an Eye for example isn't too bad when it's not taking up the space of another more useful ability.
And this doesn't even change anything for ranged since only 5 of the skills are worth taking anyway, I guess if you want to go extra fast you can now.

I don't even understand what the problem with the role actions is, or why increasing its slots is causing such a ruckus (?)
I'm personally glad that I'll be able to use some skills that I couldn't before. What's wrong with that?

Probably just a case of "Why change it in the first place?"
Most people have gotten used to the 5 role skill set up and, especially for controller users, 5 new potential skills to use and put on their bar might be a tad much.

[Derio]

It got so many complaints all throughout Stormblood because there really isnt a choice in skills. I know they are trying to avoid skill bloat. But most people who play on PS4 have 0 problems with the amount of skills in the game.

I look forward to the change because I am tired of interchanging 1 or 2 skills.

[Aster_E]

I don't even understand what the problem with the role actions is, or why increasing its slots is causing such a ruckus (?)
I'm personally glad that I'll be able to use some skills that I couldn't before. What's wrong with that?

It's more like the whole situation is just dumb or silly. Some of us might have wanted a sixth slot, or similar effect,but the current system was otherwise working fine. Then Yoshi looked at what we have, and whatever he has planned at a future date, whenever that is (maybe 5.0 or maybe later after enough bitching from the playerbase about it), and then he basically took an axe to the whole thing a year before the next expansion even gets here and oh hi! Now what? Now we have more than we need with the system that seems rather pointless now. I'm not so sure we're raging about this so much as we're rather vocally facepalming, hard, at this decision that more or less came out of left field and undid work that the devs originally put in for the expansion alone when, again, only a sixth slot would have sufficed, or replacing one role ability with a permanent variant per job.

Cnj/Whm? Here, have Esuna at level 10 or 15 (either works). Ast? Have your old cleansing spell back too, whatever it was called (I forgot), at the same level. Oh, you went from Acn to Sch? Here, you magically know Leeches, retroactively, like it was a lv 10-15 spell, despite earning this stone at 30.

Something like that. Free up the fifth slot, or make a sixth. Ten is overdoing it and throwing the system out of the window.

[Ceasaria]

Good change for Healers and Tanks.
Finally, I can have Rescue forever

[Deceptus]

I don't even understand what the problem with the role actions is, or why increasing its slots is causing such a ruckus (?)
I'm personally glad that I'll be able to use some skills that I couldn't before. What's wrong with that?

Because a lot of those abilities were gutted from jobs and put into the Role Actions in the name of "removing button bloat". This basically reverses that stance without giving the actions back to their original classes.

[Rockette]

Good change for Healers and Tanks.
Finally, I can have Rescue forever

And I will report anyone that interrupts my rotation/gameplay with this stupid skill for griefing.

[Sunako]

I think it is really nice. Casters have 8 useful role actions.
Lucid/Swiftcast/Addle is must have (atleast for SMN)
Mana Shift/Apoc/Surecast/Diversion are really good for certain situations
Erase is good if you need fast emergency heal or remove dot from the target
Drain is kinda lackluster, but potentially ok for solo content or progression if you only wanna see mechanics.
Break... I dont know any situation where you wanna use this as caster. If you need heavy on your target, healer is gonna do that or ranged dps with 2x stronger heavy + 0 dps loss.

[XiXiQ]

So much for curing the button bloat.