Quote Originally Posted by Colorful View Post
I remember people saying classes were just a relic from 1.x, but due to the fairly limited development time for 2.0 they couldn't get rid of them entirely. Even so, it's safe to assume they'll be gone permanently, they're nothing but wasted development time. They could have been interesting, having both classes and their job version be useful as a 2nd specialization from WoW or something, but they didn't go that route. That paired up with all 3 new jobs being classless... I'd say it's pretty safe to assume. There's a possibility we'd get more jobs tied to existing classes if they ever figure it out the Scholar and Summoner issue, but I doubt it.
I wouldn't discount classes being released in the future, they did so with rogue/ninja and that was pretty late into ARR development cycle. It may however be less common.