Two healer starting classes

[Taika]

because removing them takes a lot of work with little to no benefit for most of the current playerbase. if the existence of classes somehow affect your play on a day to day basis you really are playing the game wrong and that's hard to do.

Well not anymore, but in HW it affected me on daily basis when I had to keep swapping my stats for SMN and SCH. :P Now it only affects me when I stumble upon people who for some reason haven't unlocked their jobs (= done any of their quests) after level 30, but that's really rare now too. Now it's just a weird remnant that has no benefit to anyone in any way. I don't understand how removing them would affect players in any way though.

[Squintina]

I don't understand how removing them would affect players in any way though.

That's kind of the point. Removing them isn't as simple as just hitting a delete button, there's a lot of code and testing involved. To spend developer time removing something that doesn't really hurt anyone, and is just a starter version of a job, would be a waste when that time could be spent on other things that players actually would see a benefit from. It's not like it's such a hassle to go from a class questline to a job questline. Replacing that with one big quest line would not make it that much of a different experience.

[Squintina]

Also having SCH/SMN as ACN is awesome. All the benefits of having a new job (no different than unlocking AST really, it's just a questline that unlocks yet another job), while also choosing whether to level it as a healer or dps because they share levels. Do solo quests as SMN, do dungeons as SCH for fast queues. Best of both worlds.

If they just let ACN queue up as either dps or healer, and give them an action to reverse magic attack and healing stats (without a cooldown or timer, but can't be used during battle), this would not be an issue.