Quote Originally Posted by whiskeybravo View Post
It makes very little sense to rework ACN into a base healer class, especially when they have moved away from using base classes at all. It's double the work considering they'd then have to re-work SMN to fit as well. In fact, it makes way more sense to just get rid of ACN class altogether and have SMN/SCH as independent jobs, since that would be the option that best aligns with their current design philosophy of jobs > classes.
ACN -> Scholar is the more natural progression based on Arcanist and Scholar's stories.

Summoner separating from Scholar properly already implies one of the two is going to have to be reworked, and of the two, Summoner is the more contentious for its representation in game.

Further, Arcanist already gets rebranded as a base healing class anytime a Scholar goes into under-30 level synced content, and yet it functions just fine. The only addition Arcanist would need is for Carbuncle to have a healing spell on it. Not really a whole lot of reworking necessary.