Job Wheel!

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"It's Scholar!" v. "It isn't Scholar!"

Who knows. SE might just want the two newest things front and center, artistic balance be damned, or maybe those Reddit posts a month or two back with the SCHOLAR UNLOCKED screenshot weren't just fakes n' flukes, eh? I wouldn't put it past SE to sneak something by us. Yoshida did say that the three newest jobs would be a pet class, a scout class, and supportive magic user. Summoner is confirmed, Thief is everything but confirmed, and Scholar would fit the bill for that last one. We'll have to wait and see.


"[THIS CLASS] TURNING INTO [THIS JOB] MAKES NO SENSE AND IT MAKES ME ANGRY."

It's really time to give this kind of thinking up. None of it makes sense. It's all based on previous experience and association. It makes no less sense for a Bard to use a bow than a dagger (I'd argue that it makes more sense for the artistic, music-minded people to be attacking from a distance), and both of those make about as much sense as boxing leading to Kung-fu chi-blasting, or all spear-wielders suddenly developing a hatred for everything dragon. SE has every right to challenge the past if they can make it fun. And Rangers use Great Bows, for the record. If Paladin using sword doesn't block great swords from ever happening, there's still plenty of room for Ranger.

All in all, the big clue here is the book. Scholar might have some evidence going for it, but would SE really release two classes and jobs that both use books at the same time? That'd be silly.

I half-hope that Scholar turns out to come from Musketeer just so the rigid traditionalists' heads will explode trying to accept Lominsa as home to a quick-witted, well-spoken, flintlock-firing squad of casters.