I agree with all of this.

I don't know why the obsession with wings. Sage and Paladin already sort of had them. Now we are getting wings on WHM, SCH, and DRK. And none of them make any sense.

The one thing I will say is that SCH hasn't made *any* sense since they dropped the warlock traits and made it about fairies. There is nothing at all synergistic between a warlock, a tactician, and fairies/angels.

Now, we *could* have viewed Eos/Selene and Seraph as a kind of "holy magic" counterpart to SMN's more demonic looking summons. And we could even have extended the (angel) wing motif into upgrading Scholar's kit from other summons with that motif: Alexander (wings), Eden (wings). Even Diablo, the Warring Triad, and Athena could have synergized with Scholar's aesthetic. All of these are arcane, technical, or highly scholastic brings, they would have worked with Scholar to some extent, if only having Scholar "learn" some of their abilities. I would even grant Feo Ul or a fairy transformation as being more on point for Scholar.

This change is abominable. It not only totally misses the identity of scholar and makes it even more of a confused mess, but further leans on lazy "angel wing" garbage that is already overdone.

At least, AT LEAST this is equally terrible and ill-fitting as Summoner's sword-wing dragon. These are embarrassingly garbage additions to Arcanist.