Quote Originally Posted by Mikey_R View Post
This has come up several times and the general consensus is, what is the point? As an example, we will take your example of giving Warrior a sword and making it a DPS.

So, Warrior now has a sword, its animations are built for an axe, so they will need changing to better suit a sword. Then you have the fact alot of the Warrior kit is designed with tanking in mind, all the defensive buffs, strong heals etc. so they would have to change, preferably into more damage orientated abilities to make the rotation more engaging. Then, the abilities they do keep, they will probably have to adjust potencies and add interactions to the new abilities etc.

At this point, you have basically made a new job, so, why not just make a new job rather than trying to repurpose an existing job.

I should also add they had massive problems with balancing between Scholar and Summoner in the past, just because changing one changed the other. Now it is not an issue as the only thing Scholar takes from Arcanist is Resurrection, everything else is a separate ability. They have slowly been decouling the jobs and I wouldn't be surprised if they completely separate them at some point.
This pretty much is the best reply here.