I implore the devs to work on archetypes and classes before it's too late.

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This is backward.

Combat is first, classes are emergent.

If you try to make Combat emergent from classes your PvE will be terrible and your balance will be spotty.

It's so interesting proving my L2 bias by hearing that bards and summoners are less generic, when L2 had like 5 bards and ~5 summoners, with some of them being partly mages or healers or tanks.