Quote Originally Posted by Alahra View Post

If SCH or one of the other jobs had a bit of an identity crisis, something more drastic might have been appropriate. SMN/SCH did have some identity issues prior to HW, but instead of reworking one of them from the ground up, they elected to make the necessary changes post-50—which achieves the same end goal but without need for fundamental modifications.
This comes at it's limit when you're looking at skill bloating though. And in the case of summoner, they've become less pet oriented in favor of being more of a caster. How do you think they'll expand upon it with an increased level cap now? It's still not very much room to work with when their base rotation, and it hasn't been very exasperated since SMN and SCH fufill different roles by definition... and this isn't getting into the balance of SCH compared to the other healers, and while that's a discussion for another time, it;s still the consequence of SCH drawing from the same ability pools as SMN since they are inherently much more capable of doing dps than their peers.

The ranged dps are also in somewhat of a similar scenario since they're essentially all casters, and MCH/BRD sharing a lot of parallels to each other. Something like WM is making a change without addressing the foundation, and the result is that you have a very poor interaction between oGCDs and cast times. The way it is right now, it really doesn't feel like there's an approach to what they want the jobs to feel like. There's currently no focus on pet jobs and there's no ranged-dps in the traditional sense, both something they've actually moved away from.