OP: I've thought for a while they could introduce GEO as a DPS class branching off of CNJ/PUG (before they got rid of cross-class stuff, anyway), to sort of do for WHM what SMN does for SCH: Give you a DPS Job when you level the healing Job. It makes sense considering what the base CNJ already does. Giving it melee abilities with a resource that stacks to let them insta-cast magic abilities would work - like how Enhancement Shamen in WoW worked for a while (get 5 stacks, get an instant cast of spells).

Given, they're prob going to separate SCH/SMN in the future, but it seemed like an idea. Alternatively, could be a hammer wielding melee/caster hybrid...except we already have RDM for that?

But cool to know it's in the lore (haven't leveled AST myself).