Alphinaud is becoming a Scholar

[Iscah]

would have been better if he was a summoner especially with the new summon.

I agree it would be great to see him with the Phoenix summon... but I do wonder if it's subtly happened already.

In Heavensward battle instances, I noticed that he was using a Ruby Carbuncle summon. While it's possible it was a genuine Carbuncle, we've only seen it associated with Ifrit-Egi, but Alphinaud shouldn't be able to summon that. On the other hand, we know he'd be able to call on a different fire-based egi - one that must be kept a secret...



There's also a small possibility they could let him take on either role, depending on what is required for the dungeon.

Although with the shift away from Job quests to Role quests, and Demi Phoenix being a Lv72 skill, I guess it's just something we came up with ourselves, rather than something with any story attached to it...

Could be that we figured it's safe to summon Phoenix in this other world where it doesn't need to be kept secret in the same way? Although of course that raises issues when we get back to Eorzea and keep using it...