New scholar changes are not great

[Cabalabob]

I am starting to wonder what about scholar is even scholar anymore.

A classic scholar is basically just a magic focused red mage and 2.0 SCH embodied that pretty well having a good mix of both healing and attack magic, the spell names suggested we were a kind of doctor using things like physick and bio. The fairy just felt tacked on because they had to fit in being linked to SMN somehow.

But now it summons fairy’s and angels and turns into an angel… what about angels has anything to do with scholar?! Are we a theologian now?

[Lesan]

I am starting to wonder what about scholar is even scholar anymore.

A classic scholar is basically just a magic focused red mage and 2.0 SCH embodied that pretty well having a good mix of both healing and attack magic, the spell names suggested we were a kind of doctor using things like physick and bio. The fairy just felt tacked on because they had to fit in being linked to SMN somehow.

But now it summons fairy’s and angels and turns into an angel… what about angels has anything to do with scholar?! Are we a theologian now?

The 3.0 and even 4.0 was still a tactican, and if you only own the starter, or stop leveling SCH at 70, it still is. The origin of the Scholar was the very formulaic and mathematical magic of the Arcanists, as you know. The Concept of the Scholar as a job took that and integrated lost knowledge, originally intended to just learn from recovered scripture and stone tablets, but you ended up with the fairy companion, who literally taught you the spells as part of the job quests in ARR and HW. Most SB ones were gained while leveling instead. The fairy basically was there when the techniques used by the Scholar were developed and written down, and was the partner of one of the original scholars.

Even early in ShB, with Bio getting upgraded (Broil just gets another rank), still fine. The manure hits the rotary impeller once you get Seraph, that is where the Angelfication began.