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    Will they maintain AP cost for native abilities?

    From the battle reform blueprint:

    Classes

    Actions will undergo major revisions, along with both the underlying mechanics and conditions.

    By major revisions, not only do we mean the tweaking of effects and potency of existing actions - we will work from the ground up to redesign and reassign actions based on clearly identified class roles.

    We will also make a number of changes as part of our reexamination of how actions are equipped and the character requirements for doing so. First, actions learned by each class will be set to the action bar by default when playing as that class. Also, we will be making some actions settable on any class, while other "class-defining" actions obtained at higher ranks will be usable only by that class.
    http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/t...print?p=138995

    At first I thought that the bold part meant that each class will have all of its actions automatically equipped on its action bar, meaning that:

    1) It's possible to equip every action from a single class (what about all the spells?)
    2) There will be tweaks to the AP and slot system

    But the wording is not 100% clear so it would be nice to have feedback from a dev.

    This would also lighten up some concerns people have regarding the ability to learn raise at rank 14, and to use it from rank 1 on any given class.

    For instance, if only cross-class abilities cost AP points, they are going to balance it in a way that you will have to choose carefully which ones you want to use to insert in a presumably limited cross-class action bar.
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    Last edited by northernsky; 07-15-2011 at 12:10 AM.