What kinda GM was this?

[Shai]

He's not the first Arcanist in the game.

There are several NPCs in the Arcanist guild, most prominently in the Limsa storyline.
There is also one in the Alchemist storyline. Rank 20 Quest, I believe, but could be wrong.

Their weapons look like mechanized staffs. They have weird shapes and pieces that look like "Machina."

[Physic]

He's not the first Arcanist in the game.

There are several NPCs in the Arcanist guild, most prominently in the Limsa storyline.
There is also one in the Alchemist storyline. Rank 20 Quest, I believe, but could be wrong.

Their weapons look like mechanized staffs. They have weird shapes and pieces that look like "Machina."

yea, i havent seen them cast anything though.

[Isaaru]

yea, i havent seen them cast anything though.

lol pretty much this, it's not the first Archanist in the game, but it's the first person controlled one that can use spells and you can check it's gear. It's basically shows the Archanist class is fully implemented into the game and is just not player accessible yet.

[Jynx]

lol pretty much this, it's not the first Archanist in the game, but it's the first person controlled one that can use spells and you can check it's gear. It's basically shows the Archanist class is fully implemented into the game and is just not player accessible yet.

Not really if you check them out they are decked in Gladiator gear showing that they just pasted a archanist NPC ontop of there gear. NPC gear and our gear doesn't always match up in the .dats. I remember this from my .Dat moding days in XI trying to place a NPC's unique item on a PC didn't always work out that well.

[Shai]

lol pretty much this, it's not the first Archanist in the game, but it's the first person controlled one that can use spells and you can check it's gear. It's basically shows the Archanist class is fully implemented into the game and is just not player accessible yet.

Also - using the animations of Ferocity and Blood Rite (was it those?) doesn't really indicate to me that it's a finished project. I can only hope that Arcanist functions as some kind of buffing job, though. I wasn't a big fan of Bard, but I could see myself getting into HP & MP Boost. That is to say if Arcanist even has these abilities in the final release.

Edit: But yeah I agree with you guys that it's the first hint of what an Arcanist might be capable of once they are made available to the public.