So I switched to another character and found that the Cannoneer's Pirate's Blessing still exists so if you're upgrading it for the link skill and you're not planning on maining the character, you shouldn't find that much of an issue with leveling th…
I have a cannoneer in Elysium and she still has her Pirate's Blessing but when I made a new cannoneer for Reboot, he was missing his link skill. It might have to do with some kind of character creation bug of some sort.