Summoner/Scholar Split

[Kemiko]

Sadly as I understand it, messing with the class system is a big hassle of Spagetti code from the time they worked on 1.x and 2.0 in tandem.

My memory tells a different story. Has nothing to do with spaghetti code or even 1.0. It has to do with the class quests instead. Reworking Arcanist into a healer rather than a carbuncle summoning dps would be a lot of work for what they consider to be little payoff, or worse, no payoff when players inevitably get upset at the change.

I've wanted them to split the jobs since ARR when you had to spend ability points on EITHER INT or MND depending on the job you played more frequently, creating a unique situation where you were inherently worse at the other for no reason other than this unique situation of the system saying you are.

Edit: Also, just to add, the Arcanist class - as well as both the Scholar and Summoner jobs - didn't exist at all in 1.0. Yoshida has went on record to state that there was nothing outside of just small KB of character data from 1.0 that was kept for ARR. If there's any "spaghetti code" in FFXIV today, it's because they built a whole MMO in a little over 2 years while simultaneously maintaining a failing MMO. The thought of making a MMO in that short a time is crazy enough to think about without also having to maintain another one that everyone everywhere was crapping on at every opportunity. Deserved crap, mind you, but still.

IIRC, even for the FFXIV ARR beta, the class Arcanist or the jobs Scholar or Summoner weren't available. Folks didn't get to experience them until 2.0 launch, which also led to the Duty Finder system not functioning as well as hoped since so many people were playing Arcanist.