Hypothetical Merger of tradeskills...would new tradeskills be added to fill gap??

[Boadicca]

<p>I know that there is a very extensive discussion going on about the <b><span style="color: #ff0000">hypothetical</span></b> merger of the trade skills of carpentry with woodworker and armorsmith with weaponsmith.  Do you think that there would be other trade skills added so that there would still be 9, and if you do believe there would be 2 added, what do you think they would be??</p>

[Chirpaa]

<cite>Boadicca wrote:</cite><blockquote><p>I know that there is a very extensive discussion going on about the <b><span style="color: #ff0000">hypothetical</span></b> merger of the trade skills of carpentry with woodworker and armorsmith with weaponsmith.  Do you think that there would be other trade skills added so that there would still be 9, and if you do believe there would be 2 added, what do you think they would be??</p></blockquote><p> Although I'm not in anyway in the know on such things, I can say with a lot of confidence that, considering the reason for combining them would be as a 'quicky fix' to various issues with the professions, they certainly wouldn't then go through all the work of trying to invent 2 entirely new trade professions. </p><p>Doing that would be a massive undertaking, and if they were willing and able to put that kind of work into it...they could just fix the one's in question without merging them. </p>

[Rast]

<p>no, there will not be any new added if they reduce it down.  They are having immense difficulty (seemingly so) in producing anything resembling content for what they have now, I seriously doubt they would compound that by creating new classes.</p><p>To be honest, we could have done without adornments and tinkering, but that is a different rant and one I'm not going to get into again.</p>