Red Mages need some love

[EllieShadeflare]

What makes you think it's so convoluted? For all the joking we make, they aren't incompetent programmers or organizers of information.

Your argument has the same foundation mine does, only I'm assuming competence when it comes to them. And when it comes to that, you aim for simple organizations over complex ones, especially if there isn't much a difference in the data usage involved.

[Arcanist] + [Change according to Summoner or Scholar or Null Stone attached]

or

[Arcanist]
[Summoner]
[Scholar]

How much of a difference is there really in storage size here? Minimal. Which one is easier to code around? The second.

I'm assuming the worst ends because the FFXIV 1.0 team was incompetent under the original director, and A Realm Reborn is still a mostly rebuilt version of that, with some of the incompetencies that come with it. This included the highly flawed and broken split of Arcanist into Summoner and Scholar.

Also, once again, without the option of raising in the SMN's roster, what will replace it in the skillset? Can't just remove it and give nothing, that's bad design and players will complain about losing one of the unique aspects of Summoner.

[Kabooa]

I'm assuming the worst ends because the FFXIV 1.0 team was incompetent under the original director, and A Realm Reborn is still a mostly rebuilt version of that, with some of the incompetencies that come with it. This included the highly flawed and broken split of Arcanist into Summoner and Scholar.

Also, once again, without the option of raising in the SMN's roster, what will replace it in the skillset? Can't just remove it and give nothing, that's bad design and players will complain about losing one of the unique aspects of Summoner.

Nothing. Current Summoner may not be the easiest to play but it currently doesn't lack anything to make it desirable. Bad design is just as much giving a Job something it no longer needs, or should not have had to start. Sometimes you need to cut something out, especially when it has no bearing on the core gameplay of the job.

Oh, you know what.

They can have better spell animations.

Painflare: Demi-Ifrit blasting an area with fire
Fester: Demi-Titan punching someone
Bane: Demi-Garuda doing...stuff.