I'm honestly very disappointed in the lack of cross class abilities. I personally loved it when we could choose whatever ability we wanted to essentially make whatever kind of class we wanted. I understand that people want to keep the uniqueness in a class, but this only really seems to come up when trying to keep to the trinity of MMOs (Healer, DD, tank) and I'm personally all for just out right getting rid of those archetypes.
I do think we should keep in mind that when using abilities from another class, there was always a bit of a downside to it, being that the ability just wasn't as potent as it was on the original class. And of course, you didn't have the resources that the original class had (mostly in MP if you wanted to use magic on a non-magic class). This added another element of really having to manage what little you had and make every cast really count. It was mostly left up to if the player could actually handle it or not. And to be honest... most people couldn't. Even when the option for using whatever ability you wanted was available, most people just ended up using just what what intended for the class anyway.
If just sucks that they took it away from those of us who really utilized making our own classes to suit our needs, to suit those who prefer to be guided in the way of cross class abilities.
I do think we should keep in mind that when using abilities from another class, there was always a bit of a downside to it, being that the ability just wasn't as potent as it was on the original class. And of course, you didn't have the resources that the original class had (mostly in MP if you wanted to use magic on a non-magic class). This added another element of really having to manage what little you had and make every cast really count. It was mostly left up to if the player could actually handle it or not. And to be honest... most people couldn't. Even when the option for using whatever ability you wanted was available, most people just ended up using just what what intended for the class anyway.
If just sucks that they took it away from those of us who really utilized making our own classes to suit our needs, to suit those who prefer to be guided in the way of cross class abilities.
