I'm definitely going to create a new Arcanist alt character on each server. Whether I play on it very much is another matter; I already have several alts of various classes and races who I seldom play on. What is this DK thing that so many players go on about? Or Warden, or Necromancer, etc.? Oh, I think I have one or two of those lounging about in my player housing!

As far as whether or not I'd have found Spellcrafting more enjoyable, it seems kind of pointless to ponder since I don't think it's very likely to ever happen; plus it was never even announced for this chapter, so why would I have gotten excited about it?

Getting back to classes, I may have just one particular character on each server who I play almost exclusively on, and I may tend to not use their class abilities very much, but their classes do add to their overall RP backgrounds and personalities for me. I tend to play all TES games that way; I choose a class, but then I still tend to focus on the specific armor types, weapon types, attributes, and skills which always seem to be my go-tos, regardless of the character's class and race. Yet despite the fact that I tend to play all classes more or less the same as each other, the differences between them do add color and flavor to each character.

Arcanist looks really cool, but there is also appeal in new skill lines to modify existing classes. Spellcrafting, it would really depend on how it was implemented as to whether or not I would enjoy it. It’s not something I ever did much with in the single player titles.

I have absolutely no idea why some people want a bars class. Bards as musicians and story tellers fit within the world of ESO but a D&D bard class would not. An illusionist class or skill line could be fun though. And alteration — my Telvanni would like to levitate without using an invisible fungal steed!

Spellcrafting. Being able to design (to a point) our own spells for our current characters is more exciting than the prospect of starting from scratch with a new class. 180 days of mount training, all the quests, all the skyshards, the psijic order grind, mages guild books, legerdemain if you wanted, grinding crafting if you wanted. It's all very daunting and tedious at this point.

Which is a big reason IMO why they went the new class route because you can skip a lot of that tedium with the crown store. How about that!

Even if spellcrafting ended up being pretty watered down and only of interest to roleplayers, that's the feature I want most.

That said, I'm not unhappy with Arcanist. This is probably the most excited I've been for a new class.