Cross-Class "Meta"morphosis?

[Than]

A thought occurred. Shush you.

Rogue abilities make more sense for cross class for pugilist. Maybe we can get rid of the tyranny of marauder? Assassinate gave me the idea.

[Leonus]

You already know monk doesn't need anymore help than it already has. Lol

[Than]

Think about it. We'd be losing Foresight, Skull Sunder, Fracture, Bloodbath, and Mercy Stroke. We'd be getting Assassinate in place of Mercy Stroke, and some other things I'm not sure of. I'm hoping for Goad, Perfect Dodge, Mutilate, and either Mug or Throwing Dagger.

I mean I only have Bloodbath on my bar because it's better than Keen Flurry but the whole idea of taking skills from giant axe wielding rage monsters never really made sense.

[Leonus]

Ok, both one ToD and mutilate is overkill xD.
Don't take ninja's awesome assassinate skill. It's too cool to be used on any other class.
Goad makes ninja somewhat unique, giving to to mnk makes monk even more desirable and would leave drg in a horrible place party wise (unless you advocate rogue abilities for drg as well).
I could possibly see mug... but monks don't take your things.
Throwing daggers... idk.

[Than]

Yeah I'm totally for Dragoon getting these too! And marauder could trade in pugilist abilities for Dark Knight when Heavensward lands. Assassinate looks like it'll be a Rogue ability. Logically level 24 just like Mercy Stroke. I'm also leaning more toward Throwing Daggers instead of Mug since we're the only melee anything without a ranged attack on GCD.

[Leonus]

If we give everyone access to this stuff though it takes away from the uniqueness of ninja other than the ninjutsu.


I think SE wants the classes to vary in how they do things visually while being able to physically perform the same.

[Than]

Until downtime we have 4 out of 4 classes that can Mercy Stroke. Changing that to 3 out of 3 tanks that can Mercy Stroke and 3 out of 3 DPS that can Assassinate feels balanced to me. There's even the option of keeping Monk/Dragoon access to MRD cross class abilities while also giving them ROG. PLD/WAR would be able to gain DRK abilities while the casters can get something from "The Man with the Golden Gun" class from Yoshi-P shirt at London Fanfest. That also allows Assassinate to refrain from being cross class.

I guess I really hate marauder cross class skills.