Job Wheel!

[Alaltus]

Maybe we'll see a Mystic that takes from and adds to what Thaumaturge lost? Scourge + Banish + Sacrifice with Scholar adding on top of that as well?.

[Kaiyoko]

Evoker > Summoner?
Arcanist > Scholar?

My theory is that the addition of SCH was to make a second healer job (since for levelling up in groups of 4 there's going to be a huge lack of them), and from what we know about ACN it just wouldn't fit the bill =/

^This. Pretty much what myself and the hauby we're discussing when the picture was released. And yeah- with WAR already have been confirmed @ NicoNico to fullfil a more 'tanky' role in ARR. We're looking at 2tanks, 1healer, and chalk full of DPS.

From a design point it makes sense to have an additional job (SCH).
(And I hardly think ARN could fulfill a full support healing role. Anyone who was lucky enough to view the placeholder ability list before SE took them down would have a general idea of where that class gameplay will fall)

OFCOURSE anything and everything has been stated again and again "under development" and could change for release. So perhaps summoner/archaist just took a major turn we've yet to be informed about.

[Fantasia]

^This. Pretty much what myself and the hauby we're discussing when the picture was released. And yeah- with WAR already have been confirmed @ NicoNico to fullfil a more 'tanky' role in ARR. We're looking at 2tanks, 1healer, and chalk full of DPS.

From a design point it makes sense to have an additional job (SCH).
(And I hardly think ARN could fulfill a full support healing role. Anyone who was lucky enough to view the placeholder ability list before SE took them down would have a general idea of where that class gameplay will fall)

OFCOURSE anything and everything has been stated again and again "under development" and could change for release. So perhaps summoner/archaist just took a major turn we've yet to be informed about.

Even without referring to that particular list SE has said that ACN will mainly be a debuff/DoT class that gets more power depending on how many they've stacked onto it, so unless they change the its entire dynamic then I think we can be safe from a healer-SMN.

I thought they'd add another healer at launch before I saw this, I'd just assumed it would be RDM! I'm glad that it looks like SCH will be filling this (frankly needed) position.