New Classes and Bard, the need for a second job.

[Shurrikhan]

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I think the only major concern here is whether the two jobs can feel distinct when varied only by 5 abilities and will most likely sharing the same role. (Our remaining classes are unlikely to shift role, as they will either be bogged down with too many conflicting CDs (tanks), or are dependent on offensive cast upkeep for any unique advantage (BLM if it were to ever become a healer); many dps are also just too lightly armored to become tanks, leaving this possibility only to LCRs and PGLs, unless ARC were to suddenly pick up a pet aspect for potential tanking, which would still leave it short of the dps afforded to 'pure' dps.

Just as an example, even with Lustrate, Leeches, Sacred Soil, Adloquiem, Succor, Whispering Dawn, and Fey Covenant are all strong healer abilities, Scholar still remains a healer only because and according to the frequency by which it stops using its dps abilities. (Of course, the same would likely be said of any dps class stemming from Conjurer, and I would probably have the same faint disappointment there too.) And without the pet mechanic that helps to differ Scholar and Summoner, other classes will be truly limited to the 5 job abilities given, rather than Scholar's unique 9 and Summoner's pseudo-unique 14.

It doesn't help that the jobs aren't even trait-differentiable, either. The closest we get to unique 'mechanics' is in the priorities given by abilities (i.e. Fester), any unique niche granted (Scholar healing-to-shielding), and in the text of toggleables like Defiance. Outside of the last, any job-unique triggers, conditions, counters, tokens, stacks, etc. are impossible to distribute in the current system.