Quote Originally Posted by Viviza View Post
Summoners and scholars already have different versions of the same spell (summons).
The Summon spells don't change the fundamental effect of the ability. They simply change what is summoned, not what the spell does, which is an entirely different construct from turning Cure into an attack spell. Furthermore, it doesn't change the name of the ability.

Basically, to change the abilities like you want, the devs would basically have to fundamentally change and rename a majority of the class's abilities and traits, at which point they're basically making a new class altogether and not just a job. If they're going to do all the work of making a new class, they might as well *actually make a new class* rather than do all of that work for a single job.

That's the fundamental reason we're not going to see any new job for THM, ARC, GLA, or CNJ: too many of their abilities are solely focused upon their existing role. It completely preempts any new jobs. Even MRD, LNC, and PGL, which *could* get new jobs (PGL and MNK could get tanks; MRD could get DPS) are doubtful because they're not built with multiple jobs in mind like ACN. If anything, it's most likely that any other double job classes are going to be new classes entirely, built with those 2 roles in mind (which also makes sense because you don't suddenly want a horde of 50 DRGs who have only DPSed suddenly becoming 50 tanks without any practice).