Quote Originally Posted by rwyan View Post
Basically, if they don't use the expansion as an opportunity to polish up the Job/armory system nuances - it will just be awkward in general. That is why we keep seeing players wanting the new Jobs to start at level 1. The game established that first there is a "class" and at some point you unlock a "job" somewhat related to the class. They are both different yet and one and the same. Some classes actually have 2 jobs and yadda yadda yadda... 3 new jobs? No new classes? Start at level 30? With the current status quo, it just doesn't make sense.
Honestly that is one of my main complaints about the game right now. The whole class/job system just feels messy with little coherent pattern. Though I think it wouldn't actually be that hard to fix by shifting around a couple "oddballs" like making Rogue a starting class and pulling Scholar away from Arcanist. The result would be nine starting classes, each of which transitions into a job at level 30 while having four "extra jobs" that start at level 30. Clean and simple.

However, I think it's pretty unlikely that SE will want to take the time to rework the split job situation with Arcanist. Based on what's been said, combat classes will no longer gain new abilities beyond level 50 and what you gain from that point on will be strictly job abilities. I believe that approach was decided so that Scholar and Summoner could develop independently thus removing the need to split them apart. We're still left with a system that has only one class that splits into two jobs which is awkward, but oh well.