Considering jobs will prohibit the use of skills from another class.. Materia

[northernsky]

Anyway, on to the discussion, don't know about granting abilities, but I would like to see Materia with auto-skills like we would find on gear in other FF titles, like Auto-Shell, Auto-Reflect, Auto-Regen, etc... apply effect once per battle when/if HP reaches crit, etc...

This, totally.

The thread focused on the "jobs are for pt" point of the OP's suggestion, but the idea itself has a lot of potential in other contexts.

Right now materia = stats bonuses. I'd be all for materia = traits and materia = abilities. Doesn't have to be existing abilities from other classes, at least not in name and potency