For a while now (since the advance mastery and 2nd role change patch), there has been an increase in the number of 9Dragons players who want new skills and features for vagabonds because of the new gap in abilities created by the 2nd role change. A large number of these changes that players demand destroy the point of being a vagabond in the first place. Keep in mind that a vagabond is generally a wanderer, someone who does not stay in 1 place for long and is generally unassociated with the powers that be in the area. This entry is the reasons why vagabonds should remain true to themselves as vagabonds. For now, the following are the ones that I can think of.

1) Vagabonds are vagabonds because they are unorganized

I cannot stress this fact enough. The reason that vagabonds are vagabonds are because they are unorganized. The moment they start organizing themselves in any way outside of a party for a specific purpose, it forms into something that is pretty much a clan. Even a party would be considered to be pushing it. The only one that would make any sense is a small group formed for the sole purpose of completing a single task in the short term. If this becomes long term, it would violate everything that makes vagabonds who they are. When a large number of vagabonds organize themselves together, it is one of several things. The first is an uprising or rebellion. A large number of unassociated people organize for defense, strikes, protests, or an all out upsurption of power. The second is the formation of a new organization. The new organization would basically be a clan in this case. Forming a clan is a bit ridiculous considering that vagabonds here have no prior training, no prior experience, and have little to no influence. The moment they organize, no matter how small it is, makes them no longer vagabonds.

2) No acquisition of new skills without proper training

The second thing that a lot of vagabond players want is the acquisition of new skills. Normally this is acquired from experienced clan teachers (NPCs) who teach you the skills of your corresponding class after you have had enough experience (levels) and a corrensponding chi alignment (class change) to learn those skills. Chi alignment was developed either naturally through years of meditation and practice or forcefully by outside energy directed into the person's body. The second method was done by a mentor or someone trusted and much more experienced. A vagabond lacks a proper teacher and the chi alignment. Granted the fact that there are powerful vagabonds in populat culture such as Huo Yun Jia (Fearless) and Wong Fei Hung (Drunken Master). The fault is that both of these people have had prior training. Huo Yun Jia observed his father teach his students for his entire childhood and practiced it himself secretly in his spare time for years. Wong Fei Hung was taught the drunken boxing style by his uncle. The point here is that even though both of them became vagabonds eventually, they had prior training by experienced masters. Granted a vagabond could eventually figure out new skills and abilities through extended usage alone, but chances are if they started from scratch, they would not have developed this in one lifetime. An example of this is Jeet Kune Do, one of the few practical fighting styles. It took a very experienced martial artist over a decade of hard work to create a simple effective fighting style. There are ideas where enemies drop tomes to teach vagabond new skills when combined with certain items. Here lies the problem, how can a book exist to teach someone a skill or ability that does not exist to begin with? How is that even possible?