Archanist Question(s)

[Shurrikhan]

Your first question would be how to spell ARCANIST

To check my memory:

Arcanist = user of the Arcane (essentially magic as a sheer amount of force, or else the pure strands of it, usually associated with knowledge of sourcing and manipulation as would be relevant to summoning and debuffing)

Archanist = I would guess to be user of very old things, generally a relic devicer, something of a cross between a Mechanist and a Scholar in tactics jobs terms

That about right?

I also agree that there will probably be something of a tie-in between the pace at which future classes and future city-states are added. That said, it would also seem likely that the same kind of guild might appear in different traditions in different cities. It seems hard to picture Ishgard without a Lancer and Archer's guild, but that would be stealing Gridania's thunder pretty badly. I wouldn't mind seeing a more obscure Ul'duhn bow tradition kept only by its merchant cavalry guard or the like. 2 shortbow styles, 2 longbow, since Gridania has both in God's Quiver. Something like that.