Quote Originally Posted by DarthVella View Post
Though come to think of it, if cross-class abilities are the source of the new role-shared abilities then we'll end up with some more button bloat as it would free up CC slots that we could then fill again... unless the shared abilities will require CC slots, or if it's replacing CC entirely?
It's going to replace the CC system entirely, they already stated so. It might however only affect jobs, and leave classes untouched so people can still mess with the old system for stuff like PotD, and they then dont need to change anything for crafting either.

The basic idea I perceived was:
- Remove the requirement to level other jobs.
- Remove the design restriction that you can only cross-class from 2 classes.
- Allow for new skills to be designed that can be shared among all jobs in a certain role.

Merging of rampart and shadowskin only makes sense if they're having trouble filling all the slots with skills, which means, they're too lazy to design new ones in there.