Quote Originally Posted by Archwizard View Post
Second, that also means the removal of dozens of gearsets. Assets made by paid artists and modelers, gear that is equipped/glamoured/saved to characters with the affected jobs, stats tuned for specific jobs, drops from loot tables, and so on, all affected. Kind of a big undertaking!
They'd probably just do what they've done with old Loot tables in the past when making some sort of change and just do nothing. The old scouting/striking/maiming gear would still exist and the jobs that can currently equip it would continue to be able to do so (and should they add a new job they'd be added on to existing gear as well), but whatever gear they implement going forward as "Slaying" which encompasses Striking/Maiming/Scouting would be the only option. That's what they did with accessories in ARR/HW, all jobs could equip any accessory class, but when they changed it to lock Tanks to Fending accessories and Strength Melee to Slaying accessories they didn't go back and alter that gear, the change was only made for the gear moving forward.