Quote Originally Posted by tdb View Post
The old cross-class skill system was interesting because it gave you a reason to level other classes and you had to actually put some effort into getting the skills. Heck, back when I started playing a month before Stormblood I still had to level ACN to Lv15 in order to access WHM and I found that to be an interesting mechanic. Sadly I don't see the game moving back in that direction.
Except it wasn't actually interesting at all. You HAD to do that to be effective, there was nothing interesting about it.

Leveling ACN to 15 to unlock WHM is fine, but the people that had to level DRG to 34 for Blood for Blood (or Invigorate, can't remember which it was) or PLD to 46 for Awareness certainly sucked.

If you want an interesting cross class system, I'm all for that. But the original system created absurd secondary requirements to playing the jobs people wanted to play.