Quote Originally Posted by Niwashi View Post
Up until level 30, what you want is Intelligence. After that, it depends on which of its jobs you'll be focusing on, since that's the class that can extend to either of two different jobs, Scholar or Summoner. Scholar is a healer, so is best served by Mind. Summoner is a damage dealer who does better with Intelligence. If you're only planning on doing one of those two jobs, put all your Arcanist points into its primary stat. If you're planning on alternating somewhat evenly between both SCH and SMN, I'd start with a half and half split on attribute points. You can get an item from your Grand Company for a few GC seals to reset them if you change your mind and want a different focus later.
Would you say it's a good idea to get Arcanist up to level 30 and switch to scholar? And what's a good way to level besides doing all the side quests? I know of levelquests, haven't tried guild quests as of yet but I plan on at some point and dungeoning.

Also, I started a new character on Behemoth, the same name, to practice things better and I finally hit lvl 40 as my white mage on Byrn .