Are role actions a nerf?

[Driavna]

It's not a nerf, also looks like SE want people to tweak our skills based on want we are doing. For example, in a raid, there is no need for both healers with protection. No need to clean any debuff? Don't use Esuna!

Also now devs know for sure that certain skills are going to be always present so they can tweak encounters around this. The best example is Rescue, imagine an encounter where from time to time the boss stun and then push his current tank, wiping all aggro (or a random player) outside the area and need to be rescued before fall and die (since that player is stun he can't use skills like plunge).

[bswpayton]

It's not a nerf, also looks like SE want people to tweak our skills based on want we are doing. For example, in a raid, there is no need for both healers with protection. No need to clean any debuff? Don't use Esuna!

Also now devs know for sure that certain skills are going to be always present so they can tweak encounters around this. The best example is Rescue, imagine an encounter where from time to time the boss stun and then push his current tank, wiping all aggro (or a random player) outside the area and need to be rescued before fall and die (since that player is stun he can't use skills like plunge).

so your sayin now everytime we do a difference instance we need to go back to our additional abilities list and change everything up, that doesnt seem like anything id wana do really

[Driavna]

so your sayin now everytime we do a difference instance we need to go back to our additional abilities list and change everything up, that doesnt seem like anything id wana do really

For raiding (savage and extreme primals only) I almost sure, for casual content just slot based on what you are going to do, no point in picking a taunt during questing as a Tank instead of an extra stun for example.

[TaranTatsuuchi]

Are there more pictures floating around with esuna on the roles tab, because based on the picture, it isn't there.

Right column, second down.
Ignore the icon, the name is right there in Katakana.

エスナ = Esuna


Bah, Ninja'd!

It's the one that says "エスナ". They changed the icon to a blue version of leeches.