Are role actions a nerf?

[Kaurie]

Someone gets it, as of what we know now, the role class system is bad, but they did say it was not the final version and subject to change. As said before I am sure they wanted to get some thoughts from us with the system before finalizing it. It is amusing to me see people auguring something that is a baseline ability for healers tell me it really is an "option" if that is the case, so is fire IV, why have fire IV when there are people that never use it?
Again I guess we can make fire IV an option since "meh deeps" is not important. lets make cure an option, maybe make DPS spells or healing spells options and not allow people do both at the same time. Lets make it so people maxing would have to swich out spells every 20 seconds to get the maximum performance.

This sounds really off right? so does making protect, esuna, provoke not baseline.

I guess you need clarification of situationally optional. If you use Esuna on a team member without a debuff, it does nothing. If you use Provoke on an opponent that is attacking you (edit: had the esuna msg here for some reason, derp), it does nothing. If your team doesn't take enough damage to have the damage mitigation of protect keep you from dying, then it does nothing.

If you use Fire IV on an opponent, it does something.