Why's it so hard to become a courtier?

[pcw27]

I remember a while back you could choose to start as a courtier. Now it requires 21 days in realm. Why?

It's easier to become a priest. Priests are a lot more powerful than courtiers in my experience. Also it's impossible to eject a priest from a religion. There has always been a lot of potential for people to easily infiltrate religions and be impossible to remove.

So with that in mind why are courtiers such a privileged class. Is it concern that too many people will play as them thus undermining the war and combat nature of battlemaster? I doubt that will happen. It's rare for there to be more than a couple courtiers in a given realm.

[Anaris]

I do not recall for certain the specific reason at this point, but I believe it was to ensure that realms did not force new, and thus "untrusted", members to be courtiers and perform region maintenance work for some amount of time upon joining.

[pcw27]

I do not recall for certain the specific reason at this point, but I believe it was to ensure that realms did not force new, and thus "untrusted", members to be courtiers and perform region maintenance work for some amount of time upon joining.

Well that would be an egregious IR violation if a realm did that. If a realm wanted to saddle newbies with grunt work knights can still perform civil and police work.

I'd suggest dialing this one back to at least the 2 week limit.