Heavensward jobs! yay...no base class? wth..

[Giantbane]

My biggest question is how they plan to handle skills and cross-classing (CC). At the moment job-specific skills can't be cross-classed. The only ones we can access are base-class abilities, but if there's no base class then technically EVERY skill is a job skill. Will this mean the new jobs simply won't have CC skills on them?

I think this is intentional, they added Rogue with cross class skills, but the way they've got things set up, you can't use any of them on any of the existing jobs. This way they can add new jobs without having to worry about adding cross class skills back into the main classes, possibly upsetting any existing balance. It also means you don't *have* to level up any of the new jobs for cross class skills if you don't want to.

Another query I have is what about equipping CC skills? Early in levelling, jobs don't have access to a wide variety of CC skills. Anyone who's been level synched as a Warrior knows how painful it is to lose all of your defensive capabilities in one swoop, whilst the same level Marauder would have access to Convalescence, Provoke and Flash as an example.

I agree that this will be annoying. Perhaps some of the newer jobs will get more abilities sooner than later to make up for this.




I also I hope they rework the cross class system a bit. For instance I find it very strange that ROG/NIN doesn't cross class from ARC, which has a number of abilities that seem more appropriate to NIN than any other class (ie: Hawk's Eye). Also there are a number of cross class abilities that no jobs can actually use (straight shot and venomous bite from ARC) or are completely useless to every other class/job that can use it (Ruin from ACN).

[Ultimatecalibur]

I think this is intentional, they added Rogue with cross class skills, but the way they've got things set up, you can't use any of them on any of the existing jobs. This way they can add new jobs without having to worry about adding cross class skills back into the main classes, possibly upsetting any existing balance. It also means you don't *have* to level up any of the new jobs for cross class skills if you don't want to.

It may also be a case of not wanting to give only a couple of Jobs their 3rd cross class-skill set before the other classes get theirs. Expanding the Cross-class system after the introduction of an addition Tank, mDpS, rDpS and healer is a bit more fair than just an mDpS. Also with the level cap increase there will be two(or one and a job skill) more Cross-class skill slots and nothing says that the existing classes will not get new post-50 skills that can be cross-classed.