If we talk about dead skills there’s definitely more than alchemist or squire, sapper is still somewhat playable in field, but these two guys branded as yellow class craft like pardoner but nowhere in pardoner level of reliability. There was never once demand of alchemist or squire in battle but pardoner is mostly acceptable. If what they do all these years is rebalancing classes to be fair, they should’ve address this
What so funny is imc decision, which like I said before, driven by KR request, they always tend to rebalance classes that played the most and touches rarely played class maybe later, maybe not
One great example is linker
When I recently log I caught on surprise that every single build of scouts top bernice first page are linker lmao. That’s when linker skillset was ■■■■ after jp nerfed(yes I quit eons ago), and field hunting is dead, and its not played that much since then, prob not until they add join heart(?) Art or whatever addition to linker that makes it so vital to the build
Though this is imc we are talking, with imc way of thinking and my past experience, a class seemingly so vital for a build will end up getting nerfed sooner or later, so they can introduce something else, and voila there they go they would call it balance.
What i can certainly rate of how tos rebalancing result all these years is, mostly it never were disperse meta, it’s mostly just shifting meta build. I saw some tree are still healthy, while some other mostly meta cancerous minded.