Job Wheel!

[Catapult]

Compare your "scholar" to this arcanist:
http://eu.finalfantasyxiv.com/game/a...magic/arcanist

Same character model, as with the summoner.

I'll let you draw your own conclusions, but I think they're simply trying to show off what wasn't in the game's original release.

[Alaltus]

Compare your "scholar" to this arcanist:
http://eu.finalfantasyxiv.com/game/a...magic/arcanist

Same character model, as with the summoner.

I'll let you draw your own conclusions, but I think they're simply trying to show off what wasn't in the game's original release.

Ohhhh... so is that why the Elezen developed tallness and the dhamel-neck? So they could read the titles of the books on the top shelf? Oh my Elezen ancestry couldn't be sadder, why on Hydaelyn couldn't they use the ladder!? MwO-ohohohoho!

[Mjollnir]

Hoping for a new class SCHOLAR with an associated job LOREMASTER.

[billydata21]

I didn't even notice that all of them in the front were jobs, I guess it could be SCH if that is what's going on there.

I'm more interested in the background though, I wanna know what those classes/jobs are.

[Mudd]

Someone pointed out that they are releasing pictures of these exact characters here
http://www.ie10.ffxiv.com/textart/

Maybe there's some sort of reveal coming up at about the time they release a background of that character

[Aldora]

Would be silly on the artist part if it were arcanist, as the depiction of the foreground art work, depicts only the FF14 Jobs(There is a theme going on there). Second that outfit has nothing to do with arcanist/summoner, that is a Scholar AF outfit from FFXI, lets not insult the artist intelligence.
3rd Yoshi and team have not shown anything on arcanist yet and they could have easily switch its weapon from a book to something else and just added a scholar Job(what its class will be remains to be seen)

Not sure why everyone thinks Yoshi and Team would not be working on new class/jobs for this game. They do have a team dedicated just for that... This is hype and its working!

The interesting thing is that When you look closely, the summoner and monk jobs are the only ones that do not seem to be carrying any weapons. So far it was the summoner who held the tomes/grimoires in the concept art (as you can see at the jobs section of the official FFXIV site).

Maybe you are right, they could have given the tomes/grimoires to a yet to be announced scholar job. The question then would be, what type of weapon will the summoner wield? A whip?

[Skies]

The interesting thing is that When you look closely, the summoner and monk jobs are the only ones that do not seem to be carrying any weapons. So far it was the summoner who held the tomes/grimoires in the concept art (as you can see at the jobs section of the official FFXIV site).

Maybe you are right, they could have given the tomes/grimoires to a yet to be announced scholar job. The question then would be, what type of weapon will the summoner wield? A whip?

A summoner would wield the same weapon as it's class. A book.
Since you know, we know that Summoner is the Arcanist's job. And Arcanists use books.

That is about all the official information we got. From there you make your own conclusions.

[Alaltus]

Maybe you are right, they could have given the tomes/grimoires to a yet to be announced scholar job. The question then would be, what type of weapon will the summoner wield? A whip?

"Soil is my power!"
"The Magun has thawed"
"The soil charge triad to use on you has been decided!"
"The grinding teeth of incandescence, Cardinal Red!"
"The gale of red lotus flowers, Dark Crimson!"
"The strength of steel, Burnt Sienna!"
"Burn it all! Summoned Creature! Ifrit!"

Summoner for Musketeer? =P sorry couldn't resist.

[Skies]

"Soil is my power!"
"The Magun has thawed"
"The soil charge triad to use on you has been decided!"
"The grinding teeth of incandescence, Cardinal Red!"
"The gale of red lotus flowers, Dark Crimson!"
"The strength of steel, Burnt Sienna!"
"Burn it all! Summoned Creature! Ifrit!"

Summoner for Musketeer? =P sorry couldn't resist.

Nngh!
I DEFINITELY wouldn't mind at ALL Summoner coming out of Musketeer if that was the case.
God the summoning sequences in that anime were majestic, his quotes amazing.

[Alaltus]

Nngh!
I DEFINITELY wouldn't mind at ALL Summoner coming out of Musketeer if that was the case.
God the summoning sequences in that anime were majestic, his quotes amazing.

If he were in a turn-based Final Fantasy it would have taken him a whole turn for each line =P

Books themselves aren't very useful as weapons, maybe we will see different books for different classes depending on what knowledge/magic they contain.