(05-26-2013, 02:01 PM)Caysen Wrote:Losing features from the Class that your Job is derived from was something that did not happen. I sincerely doubt it's something that will happen, ever. There's few abilities that were even made redundant, because Jobs are designed to enhance and focus, not replace or subtract.(05-26-2013, 01:35 PM)U 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.
I think Carbuncle should be thought of more as a familiar, not a summon in the classic sense. It's the Arcanist's partner, a constant ally, not a special ability used briefly. For the Summoner, Carbuncle will likely be still of use, but not as essential as the mighty Primal avatars. For Scholars, making all the standard assumptions about their existence, Carbuncle would continue to fulfill the same role as for an Arcanist, but the Scholar's own powerful specialty spells would be such that it is less vital.
Where Carbuncle is a training device for prospective Summoners, for Scholars it is a useful assistant.
