Cross-class vs. Role Actions

[Flaris]

Just some thoughts i've had since the release regarding this topic.

It seems at the cost of having a homogenized role skill selection, certain classes had parts taken from them and added to the pool, albeit weaker versions. A good example of this, as many DRKs' know, is the Dark Dance/Reprisal combo. Where DD would increase your parry rate so you can proc Reprisal to get some nice oGCD damage and damage down on the enemy for 15s, it was a nice although somewhat random combo. Now Reprisal is a role action, in a hollowed state, no longer doing damage and only applying a dmg down debuff for 5s. A minor one that comes to mind is Leg Sweep from DRG, it no longer does damage and is no longer specific to DRG.

However, there are also some new original skills, with varying efficacy(looking at you Drain). Some of my favorites have been Shirk, which helps with tank swapping. As well as True North for melee dps.
Im not against the role abilities but because some of the skills in the pool were from other classes, it seems to have impacted some more than others.

When you think about cross-class skills, in order to get some of the really useful ones, you'd have to level the other class that it shares skills with in order to use it. This was a bit of a bummer because if you didn't want to play that class youd have to grind out the levels just to get to use that one skill. However, it did feel good swiftcast ressing people knowing you took the time to get such a useful skill.

Although there are some positives that come with the role actions, I wish they would've kept all the skills for their original classes and come up with new role action abilitiies.