So my main is an Arcanist...

[kidvideo]

I leveled my Arcanist to 50 as a Summoner. When I unlocked Scholar, I switched to that job & now I'm a little confused. Have I hampered my Scholar by putting all stat bonuses into Intelligence? I've only played as a Scholar for a short time, doing the job quest lines but I'm already level 50. This doesn't seem right. I have no idea what I'm doing as a scholar. Duty roulette here I come! Who's gonna be the lucky party to get me?

[SockPoo]

30 mind hit for scholar isn't that big of a deal. Learning to play the class will be your biggest factor in whether you pass a dungeon or not.

[CruxisSeptentrion]

You can purchase an item from your GC called The Keeper's Hymn that will reset your stat points for 10,000 seals. Personally, I play smn main and have all of my points in int and can heal content on my sch just fine (although I have decent gear and relic on my sch to make things a bit easier). You should check the Healing forums and look up some Scholar guides that will give you some excellent macro suggestions and what spells/abilities you should be using so that you aren't fumbling around in Pharos Sirius

[kidvideo]

Thanks. I have a basic idea of what the scholar specific abilities are. I feel I've missed out on learning the nuances of the job by not leveling up as I did with Summoner.

[Foo01]

Do you ever get to a point where your int is so much more than your mind stat, such that it makes sense to use the cleric stance for healing duty?

[kidvideo]

It doesn't make sense to use stance just yet, mind & int are only off by a few points. I'll need to get more scholar specific gear. At the moment I'm using Strategos head, body, feet, hands & darklight & hero caster accessories. Just things lying around with a retainer.

[Xaimera]

I have been wanting to lvl up my arcanist so bad and lvl up SMN and SCH and play both whenever I want to .
I gear all my jobs and I have WHM 50 it was my second lvl 50 job since 1.0 and I play all my jobs so naturally I'd like to play as a decent SMN and SCH.
But since I learned that both jobs share the same Stats and they are two different style jobs I am worried now and have lost my excitement in lvling Arcanist...
I always play and gear my jobs as best I can and not having full MND or full INT on either my SCH or SMN is scary D:.

I do hope SE will either fix this later on in the game or in the future not make the same mistake again :/.
I'd hate to play THF with STR instead of DEX which might be THF's main stat in the future but who knows lol.

[kidvideo]

Also... I try telling Eos to tank like Titan-egi, but she says "noooo"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hCRDskZrUMU

[Themis]

I do hope SE will either fix this later on in the game or in the future not make the same mistake again :/.
I'd hate to play THF with STR instead of DEX which might be THF's main stat in the future but who knows lol.

It's not a mistake what they have done. What they've done is required you to make a choice. That's the design of it. The issue is that some players are min/maxers. But if that's a problem, then level an alt character and have 1 be SMN and 1 be SCH. When the 2nd job comes for all the other classes, you can level 1 set of Jobs on 1 character, and the other set on another.

Personally, I like that you can't be the best at everything. You can level up a variety of things, but to be the best or a master at something, that requires you to be more committed. Or, you can balance your skills and play each reasonably well but not being the best in either. Plus, gear and skill make up for any real loss in the stats, and for SMN and SCH, the INT can be far more beneficial for both whereas MND only really affects SCH.

If a merit point like system (from FFXI) comes in, I'd be quite content if it worked in a similar way. That, too, made you choose where you wanted to specialise. You did that by deciding what your main class was, and focusing on that one primarily.

[Alipoprocks]

If you absolutely want to play both, I recommend putting 15 in each. I am not comfortable and feel gimped if I put 30 into Int and then play sch so I only play smn. If I want to heal, I play whm.