Scholar... SAY WHUT?

[Xeia]

Oh.., I'm tired. I got the strength to say 4 words upon the completion of this sentence.

I told you so!

No malice, for the most part the naysayers in this thread were well articulated and no where near malicious.

And we should try to keep it that way by not being poor winners, no?

So between now and E3, the debate can swap over to what the Japanese players have already been talking about while we fussed over whether or not it was really a new job.

ACN -> SCH or brand new class? ...Or something else?

On one hand, the book connection is a strong case for it being Summoner's partner job. While we do already have both existing mages wielding what are, in practice, staves and wands, using a book as a weapon is a little more unique. I'm mentioning this because I'm sure it's the point most of you are going to be making.

This makes a lot of issues, though. Will it also unlock at level 30 alongside Summoner? Can I just grind on one and get experience on both? How will they make Scholar more than just a Summoner without primals, with only a small handful of job abilities? And how will they justify Scholar's base class getting access to a summon?

My money and prayers are still on either a new class, or an advanced job which will require other jobs to unlock, and will start at level 1 without a related class.

Thoughts, community?