New scholar changes are not great

[Aravell]

Im of the opinion that both a “nicer fairy” transformation and just a transformation in general are both the wrong answers here

A thematic transformation would be slightly better (but anything angelic is not it) but they just shouldn’t use transformations at all

Agreed. A transformation of any kind, thematic or otherwise, does not fit a tactician role.

You summon constructs and make pacts to do things that gain you an advantage, you do not augment yourself, that's just not what a tactician does.

[AnotherPerson]

Agreed. A transformation of any kind, thematic or otherwise, does not fit a tactician role.

You summon constructs and make pacts to do things that gain you an advantage, you do not augment yourself, that's just not what a tactician does.

You can augment yourself to elevate your level of command, which is what I'm thinking they're trying to do with Seraphism here. "Raise your authority to command Seraphs". By a tactician standpoint, that's logically sound, command more seraphs to heal more effectively. My dislike about the aesthetic is that the form doesn't look or give me the tactician vibe, which is related to Scholar's identity. Lorewise.... from what I can see, there's no lore regarding Seraph. Nothing about Seraph's kind, nothing about Lily being a special Seraph, nothing about where Seraphs magically come from. Not having job quests to expand Scholar lore and make sense of the direction Scholar is going makes some changes fairly hard to wrap around. Is the fairy still a fairy? Or is it an angel? LB3 has Seraph, but it's also confirmed LB3 is related to Dynamis in Endwalker, which stands diametrically opposed to Aether where one drowns the other out. But we also summon Seraph temporarily from Shadowbringer expansion onwards. So how is it all related? It doesn't make much sense to me.