(05-26-2013, 01:35 PM)Ulteah Lockheart Wrote: Hehe, I'm quite excited, doesn't that means Scholar will also be able to use Carbuncle, IF it uses the Arcanist class to progress?
Possibly, but it seems more likely that using Scholar would take away Carbuncle, in order to further differentiate the job from Summoner.
Arcanist is described as a class that uses grimoires for DoTs and debuffs and summons Carbuncle, which reads to me like a mix of the old XI Scholar (somewhat) and Summoner. So if Arcanist can advance to either Scholar or Summoner, it looks to me like if you go Summoner, you would lose most of the DoTs and debuffs in favor of having more powerful primals to summon, or if you go Scholar you lose the summoning in favor of more powerful magic and DoTs. Basically the class would do a little of both aspects, but the two jobs are both masters of a single aspect.
Just speculation right now of course. We'll see come launch.
