Please Remove Role Skills and Give Them Back as Class/Job Abilities

[Enkidoh]

You know what would be pretty interesting? Instead of role skills or cross class skills- what if we could declare a subjob? And then chose from a handful of applicable spells or skills from that subjob. Like say I’m playing Monk and I could for Subjob slot Ninja’s Ninjutsu. I know I know, they’d never do it because balance and all that jazz.

It's not just balance why you will never see FFXI's Subjob system here - players hated having to level a Job they had no interest in playing just to make use of it as a subjob in FFXI, and it was exactly the same here with the crossclass system. People complained on this very forum having to level say THM just to use Swiftcast for their CNJ/WHM for instance, and Yoshi has merely pulled a Wesley and said "as you wish", and replaced that system with role abilities automatically learned, making levelling a lot easier.

Additionally, Yoshi is determined to also avoid FFXI's pitfalls of certain subjob combinations being exploited by players as "the meta" (as certain combinations were, quite frankly, completely useless - try getting a party in FFXI as a mage like WHM with a WAR subjob for instance - you'd be laughed and taunted all the way back to Lower Jeuno if you even managed to score an invite) where as it was basically demanded that you had certain subjobs and only those subjobs: NIN sub with tanks (for Utsusemi), WAR sub for NIN and PLD (for Provoke and defensive buffs), WHM sub with other mage Jobs for teleporting etc.

The problems with job favouritism in FFXI was something that was always at the back of Yoshi's mind when he redesigned FFXIV 1.0 into ARR and something he was determined to avoid in the game's ongoing development. Something that the subjob system alas is anethema to.