My fear is this SMN is going to be gimped compared to even XI's SMN, just because he didn't want to see 'copies'. Given the way ARR is setup, you can actually pull additional skills from any other class, not just your "subclass" like in 1.0, so there's a chance you'll see Carby on other classes and jobs, but yeah SMN has no access to Carby.

The whole "essence" system they really need to explain better or better yet, show it off, otherwise it seems like SMN is just a poor excuse in terms of classic SMN and as a pet job.