Quote Originally Posted by KarstenS View Post
During one Fanfest before Heavensward they annouced a rework of all Jobs for 4.0 and the removal of base classes for 5.0, whicht would include the removal of arcanist too.

Now 2 years later it got very silent about this change.
I suspect that removing base classes just isn't worth the time it would take.

I mean many of the class quests have characters that pop up in the job quests, like the rogues showing up in some ninja quests, the SB Pld story being a sequel to the gladiator quests, the pugilists showing up in SB's monk quest. On top of some of the class quests like puglist and rogue just being good in their own right. Or good for world building in the cities they come from.

And what would we gain in exchange? Making the job system slightly less confusing? IMO it's not worth it. So I hope they don't remove base classes.