Quote Originally Posted by Reynhart View Post
If only you could boost SMN's DPS without affecting SCH...oh, wait...
Seriously, you need to think a bit; to prevent skill bloat, all jobs got 5 new abilities in 3.0. It's not as if the class skills are unused. No matter how many expansions they release, no matter how many new jobs skills we get, SCH and SMN will share, at the least, Bio, Bio II, Miasma, Miasma II, and Shadowflare. Those skills will always form a part of the core rotation of both classes, not to mention the utility spells like Virus and Eye for an Eye. Unless both specs are in the class role, one spec will always make balancing the other spec harder than is necessary, and if both specs are the same role, they will flip flop as to which is better. This is not some theory or speculation, this has been the trend in every MMO that has offered specialization. It's challenging enough balancing the skills between jobs, adding specializations would just added more work that ultimately will not pay off. We get specializations in that we can switch our jobs at any time, that's more than enough.