We have finally come full circle, SMN's need help!

[Orrias]

Many of the proposals in this thread are buffs to Acn, which would implicitly buff Sch. Scholars don't need a buff ATM.

I was thinking more a long the lines of these tweaks being made to an existing, or an entirely new SMN trait, so as to remove any undesirable outcomes with SCH. Of course, the Dev Team could just introduce a new version of Energy Drain - similiar to how Stoneskin II was - for SMN exclusively.

It's true that SMN's and SCH's both share the same ingame trait abilities (from Arcanist). I guess it depends on how the two Jobs are intertwined code-wise. By the looks of it, it doesn'tt seem possible to add, remove or modify an Arcanist trait w/o it effecting both SCH and SMN.

It doesn't seem like any community rep cares to, or has the specifics of this problem. Heck it was was glossed over in the last LIVE letter...

So really, I'm not expecting any response as to how to fix the mana problem that SMN's have in FCoB, the dps inequality between the current Jobs in FCoB, or how the Arcanist class and SCH/ SMN Job are locked together. From their side of the fence, all that is visible is the amount of inane things they respond to, such as how much hair a player model has on it's chin/ whether or not the amount of days played can be displayed, instead of trying to shed some light on a branching topic which is bothersome to a fair amount of players.