Almost everything you said in that post I implied in my OP ("redistributing some abilities"). Thats my bad, I should've made that clearer... But I thought it was obvious that thats what I was going with.

Of course I'm taking GLA's tanking abilities and tossing them into the PLD section. The GLA has no use for it and theres no point to make even more copy/pasted abilities just so they both have it.

Your second point in regards to skills/traits and stuff. It sounds cool and could work either way. All I'd like to see is a nice GUI to go with it (trees are the easiest example to relate to for MMO players which is why I suggested it).