[Vent] What you guys think should change on ARR?

[HyoMinPark]

This would only create more issues. Reworking a job from the ground up, even from its weapon choice would mean alienating the players who are already accustomed to the job's gameplay and aesthetic. This is also just unnecessary in general. Also you realize Summoners (and Scholar even) use spell books, right? not ordinary books because they're mages? What is your point exactly?

This is a very important point that I agree 100% with. And it even has precedent in this game: HW bowmage and ShB AST. Both had massive gameplay changes (added castbars and overhauled card system) and both were (are, in the case of AST) one of the hottest topics of debate and criticism in HW and ShB, respectfully. BRD was changed to be less support oriented in ShB, and it’s still a topic of debate even after the 5.1 changes. Making massive changes to jobs that have played a certain way for x amount of years has a high potential for backlash.

Fundamentally changing and overhauling a job after 6+ years of it playing how it does has the potential to create far more problems than solve anything. This isn’t to say they can’t make it more summon-heavy with added Demi summons or something like that because that has been well-received; but to rebuild it from the ground up just so it isn’t “a copy of SCH” would likely anger long-term SMN players. And to change it down to the weapon it wields would require a lot of retconning that would eat up more resources than I think some realize.

Besides, SMN and SCH don’t play nearly as similarly now as Kaiserdrache is insinuating. In ARR, they’d likely have an argument because they shared the nearly the same DPS rotation down to all 5 DoTs (6 for SCH because Aero cross-class) and filler spells—but each expansion separates them further, and changes how they play. For one to say that SMN and SCH play the same now/are clones of each other insinuates that one hasn’t actually touched the jobs past level 50. I don’t play SMN that often, but I do dabble in SCH. I don’t feel like a SMN when I’m playing it.