This is getting frustrating ...

[Bishop81]

There are, quite literally, an infinite amount of things within SE's means to add to the game, but only a small portion of that infinity can actually be included. There are a lot of reasons for this; workload, design choices, time constraints. Sometimes, even things that the developers would really like to see included can't be or are delayed longer than they would like.

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I can understand if it takes up months or even weeks of development time but this change really is incredibly trivial to implement - as anyone who know anything about programming can tell you.

The art for the Carbuncles is already done. The code for summoning and controlling the Carbuncles is also done. Adjusting potency values can be done in a few keystrokes as can copying-pasting 2 skills to SMN's spellbook.

the only real problem with this is they would have to make a new carbuncle colour for ifrit and that takes time/resources. otherwise yeah sure whatever

Just skip that. No one uses Ifrit anyway. xD

Classes are outdated. They have been since 1.21. They'd have to overhaul the system to make them have any kind of functionality and that would just take away from creating an expansive job systems. I don't see how you could possibly know their plans for 3.0. The reason they don't have base classes could be that they are getting rid of the class system and making cross job abilities.

With regards to their plans for 3.0, it's really more of a personal observation than stating of facts.

Having played WoW for over 8 years, I know how their classes are designed and why. FFXIV just seems to be going down the same route - Yoshi-P is after all a fan of WoW, so he replicating their class design isn't surprising.