Jobstones

[rawker]

I see. Thanks for answering that.

Here's how I see it. If you are familiar with object-oriented programming, imagine that Arcanist is an independent class. As an independent class, it has all the methods and variables of its own. In the case of Arcanist, I will refer to it as ACN from now on(not to confuse with a company with the same shortname), it was the pets. These pets used to have HP bars, gain enmity, have their own set of behaviors you can toggle, abilities and actions all compiled in a pet hotbar.

Now we have Scholar (SCH) and Summoner (SMN). They inherited from Arcanist... One can argue that polymorphism is at play as we have Egis and Fey, which had different implementations of the summon method. Now, SMN and SCH, while both sharing the base methods and variables with ACN, they also have their own set of variables and methods.

Base classes can be complete, with very minor tweaks/improvements, and that new functionalities, esp if these functionalities does not coincide with the base class can be done with the dependent classes. In this case, the pet system in ACN class could have been left as it is and improved upon, then any ability and action must be placed on SMN and SCH.. So the argument on the tooltip is normal and justified.

Now onto the problem....

SE did not stand their ground on the pet system. Instead of approaching the issues head on, we got EW SMN which is the absolute worst decision they have ever made.