Scholar's Identity Transformation

[Mouthbone]

Did anyone over on the JP side voice any of their complaints?
The robes and dinky wings are going to look so bad on male roe
I know that XIV only really caters to female bodies, but this is too much
I'm worried that transform skills are going to become a trend

[Supersnow845]

Did anyone over on the JP side voice any of their complaints?
The robes and dinky wings are going to look so bad on male roe
I know that XIV only really caters to female bodies, but this is too much
I'm worried that transform skills are going to become a trend

It’s the only change on the JP side that got two different threads opposing it so yeah they don’t like it

[Mouthbone]

It’s the only change on the JP side that got two different threads opposing it so yeah they don’t like it

That's a relief, hopefully if they won't remove it they will at least adjust it
Although this close to release, that seems very unlikely

[fulminating]

The only thing the lore book says that I'm aware of is "With soul crystals providing an anchor for their existence, these otherworldly servants are made manifest through the accumulated aether of past nymian mages." Which doesn't really say anything, but wraps it up in flowery language. The angel feathers description is a quote from some npc that got fixed by it so is also nearly entirely devoid of any information. The warrior limit break specifically mentions it as being the party's gathered aether, so quite how much of any of this still counts after dynamos was added is a mystery - taking things at face value, astral statis might no longer work post myths if the heavens all got deleted when the pantheon was replaced by an ansaphone.

Do EE2 and EE3 say anything about seraph? I don't know and I'm not paying for the pair of them to find out.

[ArcaviusGreyashe]

> Play the fairy class
> There are fairies
> "I hate this change they made about bringing more fairies to the fairy class"

[Supersnow845]

> Play the fairy class
> There are fairies
> "I hate this change they made about bringing more fairies to the fairy class"

> play the battle tactician class
> get Christmas tree topper robes
> “yes this change is perfectly thematically consistent”

[Sani2341]

> Play the fairy class
> There are fairies
> "I hate this change they made about bringing more fairies to the fairy class"

Except there's nothing 'fairy' about the transformation.

white robes with golden feathery wings do not resemble any of the following:

Eos: yellow and turquise/green fairy with butterfly wings
Selene: yellow and purple fairy with butterfly wings
Seraph: blue and white fairy with feathered wings

[ArcaviusGreyashe]

Now that's more of a valid point, except that fairies have Always been this important in XIV's scholars. They are tacticians, yes, but the job has Always been about fairies.

You dont like the class's identity, and that's fair. It's still not a change, but a continuation. Eating up your fairy to enhance yourself was the disruption, DT's changes are just a return to traditional SCH identity.

And yes, wings do not have anything to do with fairies, my bad.

[Supersnow845]

The job has been about fairies……..being used as a tool by the SCH. In terms of lore there is functionally no different between the fairy and the SCH’s ability to use aetherflow. They are tools and tactics the SCH can use

This doesn’t work with this weird angelic transformation that barely connects to fairies anyway but even so breaks the distinct visual split between the fairy and the SCH

If this was like a military coat fading into existence around us that would be thematic even if the skill effect didn’t change

Dissipation is arguably the most thematic skill to SCH, deciding to trade one “tool” temporarily for another tool

Not this weird angelic look

[ArcaviusGreyashe]

Yeah. You're talking about another game, brother. A game whose tacticians you like more. It's alright. There are a lot of jobs you can pick from, if you really dislike that aesthetic.