Please, let us keep carbuncle as scholar

[Volcano]

Even if you could keep carbuncle he would be completely useless to SCH if kept the way he is, WHY would you want to keep him that badly? Besides, EOS is a champ imo, i don't know any sch that would give her up for carbuncle. (- this thread)

If you are that desparate you can always take off your stone, of course you know the negative impact that will have on you for just cosmetics.

[Markas]

that is perfect! lol XD

[Bluevann]

Even if Carbuncle could heal, SCH's lore and story is all (and I mean all) about the Fairy. Thief being renamed Rogue is a plain example of SE's stance on keeping the lore of classes and jobs straight in this game.

Again, my best advice is to be a casual and just roll as lv50 ACN. Long as you keep out of istanced duties, no one will harass you for being ACN (though some people in FATEs still like to be pricks and harass you about it).

Or play SMN and just never get the Garuda-Egi. But even then, you'd have to stick out of instanced duties to not receive fairly-justified complaints.

[Ashkendor]

I wasn't all that sold on the fairy until I did the storyline. Now I enjoy having her around. :3

This made me laugh harder than it should have. xD

[Seryl199]

I wasn't all that sold on the fairy until I did the storyline. Now I enjoy having her around. :3

I was the same way, the fairy turned me off of scholar for a while, until I got to experience the lore behind it. I think the lore is a little too important to give up the fairy, considering she's why you have your powers in the first place. It'd be like letting one class glam a weapon from another class, which wouldn't make sense in most situations.

[Elim]

Love Selene and Eos. When I first started the game I was glad to discover SCH's didn't have oddly coloured chicken nuggets following them around like SMN do.

[Tupsi]

I think when you'll see at what SCH's quests and story and lore are about, you'll see the big flaw in your request.

You could swim against the currents and main 50ACN?

Well..we got Warlock instead of SMN for ARR..so hey, don't think lore matters much for gameplay :P

[Markas]

Just going to chime in on this issue: while I understand the whole lore thing behind sch and the fairy, allowing us to keep a pet that attacks for those solo times wouldn't be so bad would it?

[Bluevann]

Just going to chime in on this issue: while I understand the whole lore thing behind sch and the fairy, allowing us to keep a pet that attacks for those solo times wouldn't be so bad would it?

Right, but since the beginning of ARR, SE said that classes (and wider cross-abilities options) were meant to solo, while Jobs would be specialized for party content. The solo abilities are there. It's Arcanist. That people prefer to solo as Jobs instead of classes is a community misconcept.

[Gilraen]

The thing about Carbuncle is that it wasn't until XI that he grew teeth and a backbone. He's always been this support entity in older titles, what with the party-wide reflect and whatnot. I feel like arcanist/Scholar got mixed up with their summons. Arcanists should have gotten 1.0-style sprites as their summon and Scholar should have indeed gotten Carbuncle. Instead, it's... largely the other way around.