Honestly, I hope they do.

It really is a bad system at the moment. We have the bits and pieces of traditional classes just scattered around, and there are some people who love just having a patch-work character. I would rather have a defined class that had a role in a party and had tools to better help them in the role.

Also, it bothers me that weapons are classes. It's like a Red Mage being tied to a fencing sword. Although iconic, staves, daggers, and wands were also able to be equipped, and often better suited for different situations.

I would definitely vote for them to remove the classes as they are, and put in traditional classes. I think all this talk about "why not start off as a Gladiator and spec into being a Paladin" are silly. How about you just choose to play a paladin? If I wanted talent trees, I'd play Everquest 2, or WoW, or any of the other games that come from the Everquest school of thought.

Don't get me wrong. I like customizing my character just as much as the next person. But we need defined classes, and not all this "only choose the good abilities, so you can feel like you're whatever you want to be" stuff. If people actually looked at the system objectively, they would see that it isn't unique. It only seems this way because we have to select the abilities ourselves. Odds are, everyone will know that some abilities are better than others, and they'll only be using those.

As a side note, the other day I saw a low-rank Gladiator cast Shadowsear and one shot things. This is exactly what I'm talking about.