SMN and SCH's class icon

Sorry for the silly question, but I still can't describe the meaning of this Summoner and Scholar's class icon (mostly I know other class icon is from their weapon). So does anybody know what this two classes icon means?

I'd never really questioned it until now, but I've always assumed that the SMN was a simplified horn and the SCH was simplified glasses.

I'm gonna feel really silly if that's not the case...

I always assumed the horn, but I thought the sch icon was an upside down open book... I can see the glasses now though.

SMN is most certainly a horn. As for SCH it has similarities to both a book and spectacles; I think the latter is more likely given the more rounded shape.

I'm going to cry if it's not a horn...

SMM sees to be a horn

as for Scholar I always assume it was a simplified Mortarboard cap as opposed to glasses or books.

Pretty sure you are spot on anonymoose =)

I've always thought the scholar symbol was meant to be a scale? Though it does look a bit like glasses, now that you mention it...

I have seen the Scholar symbol somewhere else before, but I cannot recall now.

The Summoner one looks like a sextant.

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Originally Posted by Sergy

For me SCH icon looks like mammoth's tusks...

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I know this is wrong, but this is what it always looked like to me too.

I think my sense kinda weird to see the meaning of this symbols:
SMN = Wizard Hat
SCH = Ancient Chinese Minister's Hat

I never had any problem identifying the summoner icon, but I would concede that, up to now, all I ever saw in the scholar icon were tusks as well. :p

SCH is obviously a TRON bike.

I always figured that since the weapons were the same between the two, the icons were their respective hats. :D

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Originally Posted by Alteiriaa

I always figured that since the weapons were the same between the two, the icons were their respective hats. :D

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This. I always assumed it was a mortarboard and horn, respectively.

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Originally Posted by Grayve

This. I always assumed it was a mortarboard and horn, respectively.

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ditto.

I always assumed that the SCH icon was a mortarboard instead of glasses or a book

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Originally Posted by Lukha

I've always thought the scholar symbol was meant to be a scale? Though it does look a bit like glasses, now that you mention it...

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I always though it looked like a scale as well.
Not that that would make any real sense for the job, but that is what I thought it was.


EDIT: Looks like the people on the JP forum are wondering the same thing... and a Dev answered!

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Originally Posted by Cherzy

学者のアイコンは「眼鏡」です！

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So the SCH icon are glasses. Now to find out what the SMN icon is...

Sorry for the double (and not to mention necro) post, but a Japanese Dev was kind enough to list all the job icons on their Lore forums:

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Originally Posted by Pocchory

こんばんは。

すべてのジョブアイコンの意味について
開発チームに確認してきましたのでお伝えします！

ナイト→盾
モンク→つめあと
戦士→斧
竜騎士→竜の頭
吟遊詩人→竪琴
忍者→手裏剣
白魔道士→杖
黒魔道士→彗星
召喚士→角
学者→眼鏡

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Quick Translation:
PLD → Shield
MNK → Fingernail scratch/scar
WAR → Axe
DRG → Dragon Head
BRD → Harp
NIN → Shuriken
WHM → Staff
BLM → Comet
SMN → Horn
SCH → Glasses


.... I always thought the DRG icon was a lance.

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Originally Posted by Alice_89th

Quick Translation:
PLD → Shield
MNK → Fingernail scratch/scar
WAR → Axe
DRG → Dragon Head
BRD → Harp
NIN → Shuriken
WHM → Staff
BLM → Comet
SMN → Horn
SCH → Glasses

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I guessed all right! Go me :3

BLM = comet <-- somehow I'm unable to see this. I always thought it looked like an animal paw LOL though that makes no sense obviously

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Originally Posted by Akariel

BLM = comet <-- somehow I'm unable to see this. I always thought it looked like an animal paw LOL though that makes no sense obviously

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Judging by other responses, you are not the only one who thought that.

it is a comet falling, tail blazing behind it :)

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Originally Posted by Alice_89th

Judging by other responses, you are not the only one who thought that.

it is a comet falling, tail blazing behind it :)

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i thought blm was a comet, and smn was just a smaller, squished comet

I actually was always baffled by Summoner's icon as I always thought it a stylized lyre and mixed it up with Bard a lot... I always thought scholar was a book... And dragoon a Lance but at least I never got confused which job they were.

I always figured the SMN icon was a simplified version of the arcanima symbols in their books, since it...still doesn't look much like a horn to me.

I guess I never had issues with SMN because I love FFT. >_>

Yeah, anyone with even a tiny knowledge of past FF games should realize that the SMN Job icon was clearly a 'summoner's horn' which is traditionally part of the Job's costume in past FF games (or, in at least FF title, an actual racial physical attribute of SMNs (as in FFIX). The SCH icon was a little more obtuse though, but at least SE have finally revealed all. :)

In keeping with SMN and SCH's Job icons - one thing that still needs answering though, is exactly what ACN's class icon is supposed to be. To me, it looks like an 'armillary sphere', a mechanical device like a celestial globe that is used to chart various astronomical objects and their movements in relation to the earth (such as the movement of the sun and moon, the lunar phases, and the movement of the stars across the night sky).

How this is related to the ACN class however is anyone's guess - although I suspect the class's original form that had been planned for version 1.0 but never implemented and was dummied out (where they apparently were meant to be equipped with odd-shaped staves and laid mechanical traps in battle) might have been intended to have some lore-based connection with celestial movements. But only SE knows for sure.

In any event, I'm still very keen to see this little mystery resolved, especially as all the other class icons are fairly obvious as to what they are (and the lore that surrounds them).

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Originally Posted by Enkidoh

In keeping with SMN and SCH's Job icons - one thing that still needs answering though, is exactly what ACN's class icon is supposed to be. To me, it looks like an 'armillary sphere', a mechanical device like a celestial globe that is used to chart various astronomical objects and their movements in relation to the earth (such as the movement of the sun and moon, the lunar phases, and the movement of the stars across the night sky).

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What's currently hurting my brain is Astrologian has been proven to use said Armillary Sphere as Main Hand from all the reveal ....So, arcanists...there's a problem here.