What if I don't WANT skills on my bar?

[Answa]

honestly the implications bother me more than the reality, but there really is no logical reason why you should HAVE to do it. The only gain to having to place every skill is its slightly easier for noobs, but i think customization of your skill bar outweighs this.

I think the reasoning behind it is in the text before these changes are enumerated:

Furthermore, no differentiation is currently being made between setting an action learned through the current class and one belonging to another. This has rendered it difficult for each class to retain its uniqueness.

In other words, it's completely doable to populate your skill bar with ONLY abilities from other classes and absolutely none from your own. This new system forces you to have all of your abilities equipped, thus forces you to play your own class.

[Physic]

I think the reasoning behind it is in the text before these changes are enumerated:



In other words, it's completely doable to populate your skill bar with ONLY abilities from other classes and absolutely none from your own. This new system forces you to have all of your abilities equipped, thus forces you to play your own class.

Its fine to seperate out in job skills and cross class skills into different categories but there is virtually nothing gained by making your bar HAVE to have every skill on it. Im not saying we should be able to eq whatever we want im saying, if you only want 10 of your 15 abilities on your bar, why should you not have the option? Essentially as has been said action bar customization is one of the oldest things available in MMOs, even if your skill pool is limited, the action bar is the UI not the system mechanics. It essentially the skills people want to see, and where they want to see them, there is no reason to make it non customizable.

As a different issue i dont think they should commit to having only 15 basic skills in existence, even if you have to choose 15 skills to have at one time, but thats a different issue.

[Answa]

Its fine to seperate out in job skills and cross class skills into different categories but there is virtually nothing gained by making your bar HAVE to have every skill on it. Im not saying we should be able to eq whatever we want im saying, if you only want 10 of your 15 abilities on your bar, why should you not have the option? Essentially as has been said action bar customization is one of the oldest things available in MMOs, even if your skill pool is limited, the action bar is the UI not the system mechanics. It essentially the skills people want to see, and where they want to see them, there is no reason to make it non customizable.

As a different issue i dont think they should commit to having only 15 basic skills in existence, even if you have to choose 15 skills to have at one time, but thats a different issue.

The language is kind of ambiguous as to those being just levels at which you get abilities or levels at which you get one ability.