Quote Originally Posted by OneTrueMiqote View Post
They did mention they want to split the two jobs completely. It just hasn't happened yet.
Quote Originally Posted by Esmoire View Post
In general I would not be surprised if in 6.0 the arcanist branches are changed so SCH or SMN just becomes its own job or something that you can pick up without any requirements, and if Arcanist is still around they will hone it down more on healer or DPS. Every patch they move them further and further apart as it is so they may be content to just allow this anomaly to remain. New expansions are a great chance to make sweeping changes.
The issue with this is that the jobs are completely separate now. They are only linked through the skill Resurrection, which while odd is good, since that skill doesnt need to change between the two jobs. As people have mentioned, Energy Drain is different between the two, Ruin II as well. Even Aetherpact is different but that was different from the onset, since it came post 2.0.

The reason Physick is still lackluster on SMN is unknown. As it was said before it feels more like an oversite than anything else. Both SMN and SCH do need a bit of "work" ease the transition that is being created now, since they are completely split, but there are no issues any more regarding changing one changes the other. Player wise, they are split. But most likely codingwise they are still linked to avoid the hardships that would come about with a complete split.