Quote Originally Posted by Noelzzz View Post
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Because if we were to go with this implementation, Ranger would still have all of bard skills minus songs (except swiftsong, that would be on ranger) and level 52-60 abilities. This includes traits and passives like river of blood. While it's adding new skills, the base foundation of the class still remains, and 5 skills does not dramatically change how they play; you're severely underestimating how much of the job is tied to their class abilities.

The only other class that has branching jobs is summoner/scholar, and that comes with a complete change in role and still comes with balancing problems (they cant buff SMN without buffing SCH)