Quote Originally Posted by Bright-Flower View Post
Before role skills, we had cross class skills. Which meant that things like provoke and rampart, you had to level gladiator to get even if you wanted to play warrior or dark knight.

Role skills was a way around that, to make it so you didn't have to level other classes and could just get some basic across the board abilities for your role. The issue ended up being there were a handful of essential ones, like provoke and rampart, and a lot of situational or just not very useful ones.

So seeing the issue, the dev team mid SB decided to just give you all the role skills and then in 5.0 work out the ui issues so you don't have to go in and 'pick' them anymore, and culling some of the useless ones.

And that's how we got to where we are now.
I don't need a recap, I played through it live.

How is any of this relevant? Everyone now gets Rampart at level 8, but why? All the tanks have different but functionally identical 30% DR skills, what's wrong with PLD getting Rampart, DRK getting Shadowskin, etc. etc.