ETA on Advanced Class change?

Ratajack: you seem to be hung up on the word "CLASS" as if it has some immutable holy significance. It does not. As far as I and my arguments/logic are concerned, wow specs could have been called Advanced Classes or ACs here could be called Primary Specs (not as catchy). It's an arbitrary word that is made up and qualified by every game designer differently. It's not an absolute. It's not objectively defined. How is "acs can't switch because classes can't switch" an argument or even a reason? Ac choice in this game is not EQUIVALENT to class choice in other games, regardless of your ancient quote from that BW dev which isn't relevant (no moreso than my youtube video showing lead devs and producers, multiple, not all fired, saying specifically that ac spec will happen no more than 5 mos before release). You need to explain what exactly is so horrificly fundamentally wrong with ac swapping(call it primary spec swapping, for argument's sake) in this game. And don't say "because you read a paragraph of text saying it's final" - Why should it be? Characters should be locked into choices? Why this one in particular? Throwing out the word "class" which has different implications/meanings in other games, EQUIVALENT choices in other games, which may have been "final" initially, were changed to "not final" and those games did not suffer.

The term CLASS is defined by the MAKERS of a particular game, and NOT the players of that game.

Which doesn't stop the slippery slopists from arguing that if AC change is allowed, class change will soon follow.

No one is asking to be able switch their druid tank to warrior tank or dps or whatever. Bad straw man. Druids aren't warriors , not because of the word "class" but because of the distinctions between them (what the word "class" means in that game) . In wow, different classes have completely different abilities, completely different gear options, different race options, different origin and class quests, different trainers, etc.. Flipping from one to another has many many issues that don't exist for AC swaps here. The equivalent to that here would be asking to switch between (dps knight) and shadow (dps cons) which, again, no one is seriously asking for.

Wow analogies are good analogies because, for better or worse, these are mechanically very similar games and it's easy to see what works/doesn't.

WoW classes have different skills and abilities?

WoW classes have different gear?

This isn't W0W.

True, and this isn't a game in which you an change your CLASS, thankfully.

WoW classes have different skills and abilities? Like powertech and mercenary have DIFFERENT skills? Like marauder and juggernaut have DIFFERENT skills? Like sage and shadow have DIFFERENT skills? Like an assassin can stealth, but a sorcerer cannot? Like a scoundrel can stealth and heal but a gunslinger cannot? Need I go on?

WoW classes have different gear? LIke pwertechs have a single blaster and mercenaries dual wield? Like assassins use a double balded lightsaber and sorcerers use single balded lightsaber? Like comandos use an assault cannon and vanguards use a blaster rifle? Like sniper use a sniper rifle and operatives use a blaster rifle? Need I go on?

Right. I agree. I'd like CLASS to stay as is. This thread is about Advanced Class though.