Job/Role daydreaming

[Reynhart]

Now, what is a bad idea is to bleed into different roles, unless the core would really be basic.

I think it's doable, with a little thought put in it. For me, it wasn't that great for SCH and SMN because SCH really felt rushed to avoid the "only one healer job". With the proper role actions, you have everything at your disposal to do any role with any class at low level. And at higher level, the job specific actions will fill in the gap.

A long time ago, I used Gladiator as an example, and how reorganizing the current PLD skills could give room for a sword/shield based DPS. It went that way :

List Of Gladiator Skills

• Fast Blade (1)
• Fight or Flight (2)
• Savage Blade (4)
• Riot Blade (6)
• Shield Stance (10)
• Total Eclipse (15)
• Shield Lob (18)
• Shield Bash (26)
• Rage Of Halone (30)
• Sword Stance (38)
• Tempered Will (42)
• Goring Blade (46)
• Royal Authority (48)
• Circle Of Scorn (50)

List Of Paladin Skills

• Flash (30)
• Sentinel (35)
• Spirits Within(40)
• Shield Swipe (45)
• Hallowed Ground (50)
• Sheltron (52)
• Bulwark (54)
• Divine Veil (56)
• Clemency (58)
• Cover (60)
• Intervention (62)
• Holy Spirit (64)
• Requiescat (68)
• Passage Of Arms (70)

List Of Paladin Traits

• Enhanced Vitality (20, 40 and 60)
• Enhanced Enmity (30 and 50)
• Oath Mastery (52)
• Divine Magic Mastery (64)
• Enhanced Cover (66)

Below lvl 30, the enmity boost of "Shield Stance" would be enough to keep ennemies on you, so that you can remove the enmity bonus on Savage Blade, Shield Lob and RoH, and we know that current role skills are enough to survive. The PLD Enmity traits would add enmity bonus to (at least) your "enmity" combo, Shield Lob and Circle of Scorn. In the end, you'd have the exact same PLD that now at level 70, but it wouldn't be that hard to create a physical DPS using the Glad skills from level 1 to 50 at its core + the DPS role skills.