Quote Originally Posted by Iscah View Post
If they did split scholar EXP-wise from arcanist, it's quite likely it would still require a Lv30 arcanist to unlock the job.

I doubt they would remove classes overall. It would require a huge amount of rewriting - you can't just take all the class quest scripts and change them to refer to the job name instead. Job quests often highlight the difference between class and job skills.
Actually, Yoshi brought up removing base classes some time ago. I think it had something to do with the claim that base classes were just a 1.0 leftover and it wasn't until they started work on the jobs for Heavensward that devs felt the base classes to be unnecessary (hence why future jobs no longer have them).

As for the original question, I wouldn't mind seeing Verraise removed just to see 1) how player preferences would shift, 2) the dev explanation for it (I might need popcorn for the player response), 3) what Red Mage would get both in exchange and going forward for that lack of utility and 4) the joy of not seeing five Red Mages in a DF group--seriously, I see this at least once every other week and it's just getting stupid.