How do you feel about Role Actions?

[Raikai]

As of now it feels way too generic and tasteless compared to the actual job design. Protect, for example... it's just a maintenance buff for the sake of it. Every healer got it no matter what... there's no decision there. I'd rather nerf it a bit and give baseline to one healer, and the other 2 having similar counterparts but with different kinds of defensive.

Imo, the role system could be replaced with a revisioned cross-class comeback.

You could equip or mix and match a set of active and a set of traits that is generated from leveling a class to 15, and 30 respectively. The actives would be a basic toolkit from that class... same for the traits. None of them would be focused into actually affecting the job's performance, but to offer some added utility: (below is just an example! obviously a trait set with mp regen would be req. for many healers out there)

For example, a conjurer active toolkit could make a Monk having access to Cure, Cure 2 and Regen... But then, Monk's MP would need a boost... You'd see amazing MP recovery Thaumaturge cross-class traits, then you choose that one. Bam, you can offheal in a pinch. Wouldn't make for an actual healer... but could mean saving a wipe while they get rezzed.

Or if you want to bring a bit more dps as a scholar... You choose the thaumaturge active toolkit to get some fire and thunder spells. You also pick up the Marauder trait kit and find there some nice defensive passives... There you go, you can now solo stuff more reliably and even contribute with a bit more damage, since your group is too good and you can spare mana to the expensive fire and thunder spells.

I can't really flesh out many details, because that would be a long process, but this idea is to bring back cross class as a form of situational utility or simply QoL for soloing purposes, more or less like in Final Fantasy Tactics. Role actions, the ones that are really vital to the game could be baked into the job's skillpool.