Quote Originally Posted by Kabooa View Post
Fundamentally, Stormblood has felt like a transitional period more than a standalone when it came to job mechanics. I honestly do see TP being phased out in 5.0 and the mechanics introduced so far being tweaked and expanded upon.

Scholar and Summoner, in particular, I can see being a split focus revamp at some point in the future, as they both suffer by being tied to Arcanist as a base.
There's not a single thing they can't differentiate between the two jobs at this point. They've already shown that actions and traits can both be trimmed or added from the Arcanist arsenal as it applies to one job or the other. Everything level 30 and before can be retroactively changed at this point. There's nothing left that hasn't shown precedence for manipulation. The only remaining fundamental change is to prevent duplicated experience gains across the two jobs. They remain as close as they are for convenience and because the devs haven't found anything they'd rather replace the skills in common with.