Quote Originally Posted by Brightamethyst View Post
Leeches was replaced by Esuna for balance reasons. Since Scholar evolves from a DPS class instead of a healing one is it has no low level healing spells besides Physick and pet abilities. EVERYTHING else is learned at 30+. That led to problems when you were trying to do dungeon like Toto-rak and Brayflox but couldn't cure poisons until level 40. Leeches was removes and replaced with Esuna as a role action to fix that issue.
If that was the case at the time, it seems to no longer be the case now. Scholar has multiple "Scholar-only" spells available before level 30; looking at the job guide, the only spell that is an Arcanist spell rather than a Scholar spell is Resurrection at level 12. Even Ruin (level 1) and Physick (level 4) are Scholar spells, not Arcanist spells.