Geomancer Easter Egg in the 4.3 Trailer

[Eloah]

snip.

Actually, I think the jobs they have play off of their natures pretty good right now. Both favor magic, but Alisaie likes to get her hands "dirty" in a sense, so it would make sense that she is a magic user with close combat capabilities; this isn't 14 exclusive either RDM have usually been the best physical damage dealers of the casters. Alphinaud on the other hand prefers to analyze things and formulate plans in advance, sound familiar, not to mention delegating duties to "subordinates"; if that doesn't scream pet user, I don't know ehat does, lol.

It was different with Black and White Mages because their focuses were opposite one another, destructive vs restorative. But, Blue and Red Mages are only opposites in perseption, not actual ability.

[KisaiTenshi]

What would be more fitting than a red oni/blue oni sibling that are also blue/red mages? I mean, Porom/Palom in FF4 were twins and they were Black and White Mages, why can't Alisae and Alphinaud be Red and Blue Mages respectively?
Also scions either go through a job change when new jobs are released (Thancred, Alisae), or a new NPC with that job joins the scions sometimes (Estinien, Yugiri) or we have an ally of that job (Gosetsu). If the next job released -IS- BLU (still big IF), it would be likely that Alphinaud would either demonstrate BLU-like abilities soon (like Alisae did with her Aether sword), or a new BLU NPC will join the Scions. This is because the Scions sort of represent the prototypical FF cast party made up of different classes.

Lore reasons mainly. The twins in FFXIV have books because it's a key thing in Coil.

Alisaie Leveilleur however doesn't present any Red Mage things until StormBlood. The final fight in Post-HW is not as RDM like how the player does it. Alisae never summons a pet, the Sword is the only thing she ever summons, and only once.

Likewise Alphinaud Leveilleur summons Moonstone Carbuncle, not the same Carbuncle the player summons as an Arcanist. So unless the developers wish to promote Arcanist as it's own Job to have a third pet job that summons nothing but more powerful cute Carbuncles, I don't think we're going to see Alphinaud become a summoner or scholar since both make Carbuncle disappear.

As for Scion job promotions... pardon my sarcasm, half of them got promoted to "dead". None of them ever got "upgraded" to a job except Alisae, and that's only by virtue of what is labeled a job in the game.

[Myrhn]

As for Scion job promotions... pardon my sarcasm, half of them got promoted to "dead". None of them ever got "upgraded" to a job except Alisae, and that's only by virtue of what is labeled a job in the game.

Thancred also change from gladiator to rogue when helping Yugiri in a quest.

[KisaiTenshi]

Thancred also change from gladiator to rogue when helping Yugiri in a quest.

Gladiator to Rogue is not a job upgrade, that's a class change.

[Myrhn]

Gladiator to Rogue is not a job upgrade, that's a class change.

If u wanna be technical non of the Scions have a job stone so non of them have a job.

[basketofseals]

If u wanna be technical non of the Scions have a job stone so non of them have a job.

If we want to be even more technical, Thancred identifies as a BRD.

Thancred is some weird knife chucking thing before settling into NIN. Not all NPCs conform to PC standards.

[Eloah]

If we want to be even more technical, Thancred identifies as a BRD.

Bard in a figurative tense not a literal one, as in someone very flirtatious