Scholar Lore issues..?

[Jade_Tyrant]

It was indeed the case at the time. The Job Stones worked by giving you new spells after level 30, exactly one new skill every 5 levels, so SMN and SCH shared the exact same skillset until lvl 30 and even then, they shared ACN skills up until 50, this meant that SCH shared Ruin 1 and 2 and both levels of Bio and Miasma, which incidentally made SCH the more "DPS-oriented" healer, SMN still has Physick I don't know if you mean SCH gets a Scholar-only version or something because I haven't seen SCH's skillset in a while (it was certainly useless for SMN since HW, because it scales off MND and not INT), I'd guess they made SCH Ruin also scale off MND instead of INT for SMN with the removal of Cleric Stance.

Yup, Scholar on the Job Guide has a "Scholar-only" version of both Ruin and Physick. Ruin has less potency (and as you said, likely scales off of Mind) while Physick has higher potency. Both are clearly marked with the SCH symbol while Resurrection is still marked with an ACN symbol, and in-game the skills only list SCH for which job the skills belong to.

That's probably not as easy as it sounds. If it was possible to retroactively add low level skills not attached to base classes they probably would have just made leeches level 16 or something and called it a day.

Even now we can still see this. It if was that easy to slot in low level job specific skills we'd probably have long since seen things move around. Succor at level 10 to match Medica/Helios/Prognosis, etc.

But it's something we've seen them do plenty now? As I mentioned earlier in the thread, almost all of Scholar's low level skills are Scholar-only, not Arcanist - both the ones that share the same name and effect but with different potencies, and the spells like Bio and Bio II that no longer exist at all on Arcanist. It might not have been possible originally, but it definitely seems to be doable now.