Scholar... SAY WHUT?

[Diyne]

Sorry--let me clarify. While I may want red mage, I do understand that there is a need for specific role fulfillment. As I asked in my ending question. I would love to see the 'basic' jobs put into the game first. But the game needs a second healer, and maybe another support dd. I am assuming what party roles are needed here, with our current class/job setup: If Summoner is a support dd, and Scholar a healer, that's great! That means we've got two healers (WHM, SCH), 2 melee DD's (DRG, MNK), 2 tanks (PLD, WAR), 2 support (BRD, SMN), and a Mage DD (BLM)If they added red mage in as a healer? I'd be rather frustrated. I'm sorry, when I posted that the other day, I was moreso just frustrated with the fact that basic jobs weren't put into the game first, over what I would considered 'advanced' jobs in the 'Final Fantasy' scheme of things. We need more of certain roles first.

I am curious if we'll see two new classes as well. However, Scholar is generally, at least to the FFXI crowd, uses a book as a weapon, yes? Summoner/Arcanist has been shown previously as using a book as well. If both of these jobs use a book, then Arcanist being the class derivative of these jobs would make a lot of sense, and mean that other jobs could later be opened up from classes that already exist.

Sorry, mulling here. An example, though I believe it's been mentioned before that they may be making 'two daggers' as a one handed weapon (similar to pugilist) for this-- Gladiator, in 1.0 at least, could use daggers. What if they could take off their shield, and equip a second dagger in their off hand? Replace all of their Shield abilities with a new, two-daggers ability. Maybe this opens to the job of Thief, or something.

As for early CNJ/THM, ah, nostalgia. Their spells were a confusing mess. CNJ had all the nukes, THM I think had the only HOT, and other WHM and BLM spells seemed randomly distributed between the two.

THM also had all of the Debuffs, such as Paralyze, Slow, Blind, ect. They also had Bio/Dia. If anything, I'd say THM reminded me of XI Red Mage. Otherwise though, yeah, the two mages were kind of a jumble of black/white mage spells, with conjurer having most of the blm nukes, as well as "Cure" and "Stoneskin".