Cross Role skill slots

[Connor]

It's hard to say how many abilities will actually be available in the shared role slot, but I imagine they'll probably let us select up to five like we currently have now, especially since they said that the number of abilities we have after ability consolidation / removal / adjustments will be the same as what we have now

[XSamsaraLotusX]

What's up with all the doom and gloom?

On topic though, I would assume we'd get 5 at 50, 6 at 60, 7 at 70, etc.[/QUOTE]

What doom and gloom?
I just see how se did things so far. Most if not all didnt worked aso good at first.
I hopee they do it good but we dont know what skills they want to take for this.

[Malzian]

-Edit-

I realize i posted my first bit in the wrong thread, but... in response to the OP, you'll still have 5 slots to choose the skills you want as we have now, you just won't have to level alternate jobs to fill those slots.

[Kaethra]

How do you need that many buttons?! I barely fill 3 hotbars for my job skills.

18 Conjurer actions (17 in reality as Stone III replaces II, I still has a debuff).
10 White Mage skills
5 Cross Class actions
3 potions (Mind, Echo Drops, and misc)
Sprint
Mount
Gysahl Greens
Chocobo actions (really just use 2 of them)

So yeah.. minimum of 4 bars needed (might be able to squeeze it down to 3 for dungeons/raids, but lets be honest.. I don't really wish to swap abilities around as I have them right where I need them for my mouse button activation on my MMO mouse). In reality I use 5.

This is all before adding in any sort of macros used for alerts (low MP, CC'd ect), marking, and focus. Which would help fill out the 5th bar on its own.

I will say this though. All of my active use abilities (that aren't simply clicked) are on bars 1 and 2. I have easy access via my right thumb to those abilities. I put things like Protect and other buffs on the third bar. There's a 4th bar on the side of the hotbars in a 3x4 and shrunk down. This is where sprint, mount, and potions go. And then bar 5 is shrunk down and in a 12x1 vertical on the right side where my chocobo actions and warnings go. Bars 1-3 are 1x12 in 3 lines over the top of each other, with the petbar as a 'fourth' bar on top if I pull out a pet.

[Valkyrie_Lenneth]

A lot of that sounds like extra stuff tho, I have most of those on side hotbars for clicking. I make use of just 3 for jobs, and don't even use an mmo mouse, just modifiers for 1-4 for the most part. Much easier

[ADVSS]

in 5.0 i can see them removing classes entirely, seperating sch and smn, base level prob be 30 without a potion, and the cross role skills be picked for you, not as cross role skills we have an option* Im guessing, out of a list.What id expect to see is instead of 5 we will probably see 7 skills to choose from, out of a list, considering some skills like rampart is going to be on this list and not the jobs predetermined skill/level.

So yeah, even more simplified, with less customization because its "too hard" to pick the right skills for the right situation. Not only that but pretty sure the statement in the future will be "we found that many players, of the same roles chose the same 7 skills from the list, and so we felt like the option to choose between a list was not really valid, so now these skills will just get added at level intervals appropriated with unlocking the additional slot"

[Ultimatecalibur]

So yeah, even more simplified, with less customization because its "too hard" to pick the right skills for the right situation. Not only that but pretty sure the statement in the future will be "we found that many players, of the same roles chose the same 7 skills from the list, and so we felt like the option to choose between a list was not really valid, so now these skills will just get added at level intervals appropriated with unlocking the additional slot"

Not necessarily.

While there may end up being a few "must have for every fight" skills (things like Rampart, Raise, Protect, etc.) there is a good possibility that they could put utility abilities that are useful in specific content into the Cross Role pools.

Imagine what the Devs can do if the can guarantee that a standard 2 tank/2 healer/2 melee dps/2 ranged dps composition can have buff strippers, silences, pacifications, sleeps and binds just by changing out cross role skills?

[Wildsprite]

I'm hoping they put the jobs at 10 like the classes have and make the classes basically useless after level 34(I.E. if you are lvl 34 you will be directed to unlock a job to continue with the main story after that)
Note: I said 34 because that is the max sync for the final class quest and the job unlock quest.
ofcourse they could also do with something to tell us we need a second class at minimum 15, a friend came to me confused about this because no NPC told him to do anything with the job