I really don't know what they were thinking. I mean they took Aetherflow, an ability you learned at level 6, and moved it up to level 45. Did they not even think what that would do to SCH in low leveling dungeons?

Arcanist used to be a fantastic soloing class with topaz carbuncle and later with SMN's Titan-egi, and they just... dropped all that. My best advice is to level your company chocobo in a tank or healer role.