Quote Originally Posted by TheMightyMollusk View Post
I would argue that Scholar should be the one split off. Summoner follows more obviously from arcanist, as a DPS using summoned arcane creatures as a focus. Scholar branches off into healing instead.
However SCH retains actual pet control being somewhat core to their job design which despite the ground up rework is still very much part of ACN’s lore

SMN meanwhile could delete carbuncle tomorrow and nothing would change

SCH thematically flows better from ACN than SMN does