Quote Originally Posted by Jonnycbad View Post
Arcanist is the stand-in for Arithmetician from from FFT. Remember there was no "Scholar" class in FFT, but like Scholars from other games, Arithmetician could cast variety of magic and targeted based on variables like level/height, etc. That said, Arcanist uses math in FFXIV to cast its spells.

From the FFXIV lorebook:
Summoner also takes it a step further with the math based spells.

Which is why the Allagan's ended up using technology to do the complex formulae needed for Summoning magicks... Right before they went and killed all the Summoners... Then started to use Summoning as a defence mechanism after Sari got all angsty and devised Aetherochemical Summoning and they found his research...

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Allagans aren't good at sticking with decisions...