Job Personalization: Can I Have It?

[Enkidoh]

So why do Arcanists get to have the freedom to swap between roles? I thought this was all about balance and fairness and whatever else - why does one class get two Jobs, two roles, and half the leveling investment?

Why does a specific class getting multiple Job specs seem acceptable - but not acceptable for every other class? Or what?

It was an experiment - the single Job upgrades for Disciplines of War and Magic originated during the later part of version 1.0's service, where as ACN was actually dummied out of the game (thus was never playable in 1.0) and was only finally made available in ARR, hence SE decided to experiment with it having two Jobs come off it instead of one (mostly, because the game needed a second healer Job).

Naturally, due to oversights in how stats are implemented (their decision to have a single base stat control the potency/effectiveness of that class's abilities), this didn't work as well as SE had hoped, thus the experiment was deemed a failure - SE decided not to implement second Jobs for any of the other classes leaving ACN having two Jobs an orphan pretty much.

Personally I'd like to see SCH removed completely from ACN and given a new base class (or even made into a classless Job like the 'extra Jobs' added in Heavensward), but I guess that probably won't happen.