Is it possible to revamp Arcanist?

[Kyoskai]

you say it's not gonna happen like you know something we don't. please stop doing this. we don't know what they have planned and we won't know till they are ready to tell us.
personally, I'm still hoping they will nix the whole class system(removing the job crystals) and make all the classes into jobs revamping them into something useful(while keeping the existing jobs ofcourse)

I am 100% absolutely sure Arcanist will not be around if they so choose to make everything separate, as far as "knowing what they have planned", I don't, but I do have a pretty good idea of what they won't.

If they get rid of job crystals and make everything separate I can guarantee you to the HIGHEST freakin' level they won't keep the classes.

[Bigcat9715]

for Arcanist, I would like them to play like the existing Summoner job in this game does and have them change the existing Summoner job to something a bit more like the one in FFXI.

From what I heard is that the Summoner class in FF11 was like they just came into a dungeon and did only one thing and that was it. I also heard was that when your pet was out you really didn't do anything at all, so I doubt they would go back to that. The Dev team clearly wants everyone to play a more active role in anything FF14 related.

[Wildsprite]

If they get rid of job crystals and make everything separate I can guarantee you to the HIGHEST freakin' level they won't keep the classes.

you're still just speculating. there is no guarantee of this and until it is announced that is all your "guarantee to the HIGHEST freakin' level" is
also keep note that all of the DoH and DoL are classes not jobs therefore they wont be getting rid of all the classes

[Delily]

for Arcanist, I would like them to play like the existing Summoner job in this game does and have them change the existing Summoner job to something a bit more like the one in FFXI.

Yes, this has mentioned several times, and the response is simple: go play FFXI. It's still running. The design team actively decided against this since they felt this type of class was too passive. It wasn't the player character's actions that were moving the story along, it was the player's pet by proxy. Also, the design of the game really doesn't support this type of class. No matter what the summoner looks like, I guarantee the pet will not be active as it was in FFXI, you will have to actually cast spells.

[Delily]

you say it's not gonna happen like you know something we don't. please stop doing this. we don't know what they have planned and we won't know till they are ready to tell us.
personally, I'm still hoping they will nix the whole class system(removing the job crystals) and make all the classes into jobs revamping them into something useful(while keeping the existing jobs ofcourse)

You're right, we can't say. However, even with the mysterious "we can't tell you why DRK has no base class", I'd wager they're not to going to overhaul everything, since that would require significant rework of the existing game.

[Gilraen]

Ah yes, Dark Knight. I have a feeling it's based on a Job and a sub-Job, which is itself based on a class so to say Dark Knight is classless isn't true. It, directly, is classless but it's levels will still be coming from a class.

[Buff_Archer]

Something interesting (to me anyway), I was next to an S-Rank when it popped couple months back on SMN, couldn't get into a party by the time it was pulled, so pushed my DPS as hard as I could through the whole fight and got a paltry 2 allied seals for it. The other day was bored screwing around and unequipped job stone to be a level 50 ACN, cross classed flash, and was flashing enemies and letting topaz carby take over enmity and kill them for laughs when S rank popped in another region. I made it there about 10s before it died, and did one DOT spell and then just spammed flash and got a lot more seals as when I was on SMN DPS'ing my heart out.

I guess that's why hunts never interested me that much.

[Kyoskai]

you're still just speculating. there is no guarantee of this and until it is announced that is all your "guarantee to the HIGHEST freakin' level" is

:I
Classes =/= Boring and more useless Jobs(What with having none of the awesome job skills that jobs get)
If you can't see why Lancer and Dragoon can't exist side-by-side, I cannot bring you back from that...
THEY COULD!
There is no denying that.
But the unfathomable amount of work/money/time in doing it(in comparison to just keeping it as-is/nixing classes and just having jobs) is BATSHIT insane and I can't see(maybe you can) ANY bright side to doing so.

[Sapphic]

2k crit adlo would be more impressive on a PLD, just saying.

That 2k crit crit on a PLD, would be a 2.4k crit on a WAR ^_^ just saying.