Quote Originally Posted by Diyne View Post
Why not Red Mage first? It seems wierd to not add in a more prevalant, basic job from the series first, over scholar. I can see not putting in more melee type jobs since the game needs some more mages, but why Scholar and not Red mage? For a specific role fulfillment?
Why RDM? At this point in time what would Red Mage do? Scholar has also been around since the early days (FFIII in terms of playable), so...what's the problem?

Arcanist already took RDM's Enfeeblist role per XI style, prior to XI RDM had abilities and certain spells that are already given as base abilities and traits to class/jobs since 1.x. Scholar has a lot more potential in this game than RDM does to be honest.