Honestly? In my opinion, the Role Action System should have never come to existance in its current form. Instead of having to choose from 5 out of 10 skills, why not just give us access to the 10 skills? While I agree that some of the skills are situational, others are not (Rampart, Provoke and Reprisal for example are almost mandatory, if you do 8 man content, shirk is godlike).

I understand that this system was put in place partly to remove button bloat, but putting mandatory skills in there reduces the amount of choice players really have.

I think its even worse for healers, whose mandatory skills include the mp-regen, the cleanse, largesse and swiftcast, meaning they can take one more skill. Thats why most healers I know only protect at the start of a 4 man and then adjust their xrole skills to something else.

To me, it seems like too many skills in the xrole system are base requirements for the role you are playing. SqEx could have just given us access to those skills without choice.