Summoner is a Final Fantasy 14 summoner (not a warlock wow clone)

[Cithaerias_pyropina]

I thought this thread already reached peak clownery, but now that aveyond-dreams's replacement has arrived, we were gifted the new knowledge that poison= necromancy. Everyone's looking at Reaper, but it turns out SCH is actually the wannabe necromancer job. Fairies are just family friendly voidsents.

Back to chime in again. Biolysis, which does deal with death through the decomposition of matter through bacteria and does fit into the necromancy theme, doesn't look like poison or viral magic. It looks like mathematic symbols which fits Scholar's entire "militaristic and scholarly" theme. Easy fix for the poison/viral DoTs feeling out of place on Arcanist/Summoner would be to change the names and VFX to be more in line with how Ruin and Painflare look; runic symbols. Or have SMN summon something to put poison on enemies, which there are only 2 poison related summons in the entirety of final fantasy, one of which that can never be used because of this game's lore. Eukrasian Dosis looks a better visual for Arcanist/SMN DoTs than Bio or Miasma ever did.

Wouldn't surprise me if Scholar is the next job that gets a complete from-the-ground-up rework in 7.0 and loses Ruin, Ruin 2, Bio and Bio 2 in place of things that will fit Scholar thematically as Scholar has already been effectively split from Arcanist.

See ya in November.

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Back to chime in again. Biolysis, which does deal with death through the decomposition of matter through bacteria and does fit into the necromancy theme, doesn't look like poison or viral magic. It looks like mathematic symbols which fits Scholar's entire "militaristic and scholarly" theme. Easy fix for the poison/viral DoTs feeling out of place on Arcanist/Summoner would be to change the names and VFX to be more in line with how Ruin and Painflare look; runic symbols. Or have SMN summon something to put poison on enemies, which there are only 2 poison related summons in the entirety of final fantasy, one of which that can never be used because of this game's lore. Eukrasian Dosis looks a better visual for Arcanist/SMN DoTs than Bio or Miasma ever did.

Wouldn't surprise me if Scholar is the next job that gets a complete from-the-ground-up rework in 7.0 and loses Ruin, Ruin 2, Bio and Bio 2 in place of things that will fit Scholar thematically as Scholar has already been effectively split from Arcanist.

See ya in November.

After FFXI, the Necromancer job - err, Scholar - was changed to be a tactician able to use white and black magic. Poison and related spells, as black magic, are part of a scholar's arsenal, as you can see in the FF3 remake or in FF11 (which is often used as a paradigm for job design, but only when it is convenient). They were also more prominent in FF14, before Square Enix decided that only idiots play healers.

If the topic is "what fits Scholar", I guess I'll go with what people that literally created Scholar think, and not what a random user on a forum thinks. You are out of luck here, friend.

EDIT: as a heads-up:

Biolysis, which does deal with death through the decomposition of matter through bacteria and does fit into the necromancy theme

Lysis doesn't mean death through bacteria. A lysis can occur through detergents, enzymes, pressure, sound, temperature (and so on), viruses and bacteria.