Quote Originally Posted by Eloah View Post
The retort I always use for this arguement, that has yet to fail me is this; when have SCH's ever used fairies? Yet why is no one crying, "I want a real SCH".
I'm surprised that retort has yet to fail you, given how incredibly simple it is to undermine.

It's easy to ADD new things to a job that help differentiate it from previous iterations and/or allow it to fit into the particular game. For example, XI's Dragoon had a Wyvern pet. XIV's White Mage has offensive spells.

Their core tenets remain the same, DRG is still focused around having spears/lances and doing leap attacks. It just has an additional thing in XI. White Mage is still focused around healing, it just functions in an MMO setting where being able to attack things on your own is necessary.

To which, Scholar's core tenets remain intact within XIV. They're known throughout their iterations for forgoing weapons like Daggers and Staves in favour of using Books. They also access offensive (Black) and defensive (White) magic. They encapture this design in XIV with or without their Fairy. They merely have a Fairy alongside them as an additional thing that XIV does to tie them into the lore in a way that makes studying a viable means of having an "Unusual" job (Since most of the jobs from ARR are noted as being rare or forbidden which is why every NPC isn't running around with them)

Summoner, in almost every single iteration, has been about summoning powerful entities that have high MP costs but devastating results. Many instances also had them learning a lot of White Magic too (Though, people will gloss over that because typically the most iconic thing about Summoners are their powerful and flashy SUMMONS).

At best XIV has Demi-Bahamut. As a single noteworthy summon with an impact comparable to that of previous games, only introduced at level 70.

Sure, by my own logic they could have added new stuff to the class, like having a permanently summoned pet such as a Carbuncle or Egi. But having these as the focus of the class and for the most part the only identity of the class is an affront to every known iteration.

If you want to compare it to a SCH situation, it would be as if they released the Red Mage we currently have back in ARR under the name Scholar and then at level 70 they gained access to a single skill where they put away their Rapier and Focus and pulled out a book and started to use that to cast a spell. Sure, technically they'd be covering some of the aspects of SCH with that, using both Black and White magic. But you'd see complaints that a Scholar isn't a Scholar if they're not using books. Just like how Summoner isn't a Summoner if it's not using its iconic summons.