What if Scholar became oriented around movement instead?

[Alpheus]

Sure if it means they get a dash themselves why not. Also the positionals you're proposing are FFXI Geomancer properties, they've shown how they wanna unshackle themselves from lore (SMN and AST lore ignoring actions they've taken recently) so GEO might be back on the menu and they might want to keep positional nuking as something for XIV GEO as well. Thats the only road bump I can foresee in a vacuum.

[ModicaSolis]

Sure if it means they get a dash themselves why not. Also the positionals you're proposing are FFXI Geomancer properties, they've shown how they wanna unshackle themselves from lore (SMN and AST lore ignoring actions they've taken recently) so GEO might be back on the menu and they might want to keep positional nuking as something for XIV GEO as well. Thats the only road bump I can foresee in a vacuum.

I stopped following FFXI before they added Geomancer but I would hate that for GEO in this game. They should be tanks that use the elemental abilities to enhance defense and offense and inflict buffs/debuffs. I would prefer they were support classes, but FFXIV and modern MMOs have no interest in dedicated support classes.