Quote Originally Posted by Taliss View Post
If you are taking contagion off of the pet and onto the caster, it would have to go to ACN and not SMN.. since its available to ACN already with Shining Emerald on Carby.
Carbuncle would be receiving many or all of the promised Egi re-balancing that has been promised (at least any changes to Garuda and Titan). It's possible that this balancing could affect Arcanist positively as well.

But really, why play ACN after level 30...