Scholar... SAY WHUT?

[Mortechai]

Just like the death star "is no moon", that is no scholar. It's Arcanist. The base class for Summoner, which we've already seen art and concepts for. I mean come on people....who is really stupid enough to think that's a SCH when SE has already told us several times that Arcanist uses books as their weapon?

[ArkhamNative]

For the most part, people have either been posting the evidence in support of Scholar (eyes see Scholar AF), or posting reasoning from what we know about the v1 job system why it cannot be Scholar (brain says Book = Arcanist/Summoner). Regardless of what job/class SE says it is, the evidence won't have changed.

To me, overall, it seems more likely that SE would add and change stuff from v1 to make Scholar a possibility, rather than throwing the Scholar job under a bus and stripping it of its iconic AF, all but locking it out of FF14, and putting the Arcanist class in a circle of FFXIV jobs wearing iconic AF of a job not even in the game.

This isn't just some random concept art, either. It's the Japanese SE's cover art. It's also the back cover of the CE box, and on the cover of the JP version's art book. And of course on those marketing banners and posters seen in Fernehalwes's blog post.

P.S. LOL Anonymoose. I saw at least 2 versions of that deleted post. Been there. /comfort

[Kavaskous]

I'm putting my money on No. Given "Evidence" like concept art and "Data Mining" claims - just like in version 1.0 - I'm still convinced they're more likely to release ACN/SMN and no other mage, in fact I'm sure MSK/COR is more likely than another mage, but I guess we'll see.

[Vilhem]

It wouldn't be practical if it was scholar. We're about to start Beta Phase 3, with no official mention of it from Yoshi-P or anyone else. They would have to balance it, debug it, test it, etc. For them to go this far in the game without a mention, I doubt its what everyone thinks.

Classes may not have specific armor ingame, but its like Anonymoose said: it's probably a promotional piece saying "hey guys look what's coming to launch!" Especially those that weren't around for the jobs release, which came later in 1.0.

So the girl has a mortarboard and some loafers....in only one piece of promotional art with no prior briefing from the dev team...yeah I call this one Arcanist. lol

[hideka]

i would like to point out, that the color schemes for the Arcanist model on the official page, and the color scheme of the Scholar indicate two completely different armor sets. why would they make concept art for two completely different sets of armor for arcanist's "Class" armor? makes zero sense. based off of Ferns Hintbomb, the blatant scholarly look of the charachter, and my immense desire to have scholar in this game, i have determined that it is infact a scholar.

[Vilhem]

Promotional concept pieces vary (just look at Yoshitaka Amano's art for past Final Fantasies, they don't EXACTLY line up with how things are seen ingame now, do they?)

To want scholar ingame is one thing, to fool yourself into thinking its there because of said desire is...well >.>a

People need to let go of Ferne's comments as being some kind of hint lol. It was such obvious troll.

[hideka]

ok then riddle me this, why does the SMN concept match up nearly perfectly to the "Job wheel" photo. while the job that everyone is saying isnt scholar on the job wheel, doesn't resemble the concept artwork for arcanist in the slightest. (besides the smile)

[Vilhem]

Perhaps because the first one (where she's sitting with Carbuncle) was done awhile back, around the time summoner/arcanist was just announced, and the "job wheel" pic is more recent, showcasing the new jobs AND the new class that's coming.

Notice how the color schemes between summoner and the elezen in question are similar? It wouldn't look as good, imo, if they just threw in the old elezen pic with the white robe into that pic, as the clothing she's in is pretty bland compared to the pizazz of the clothes she's wearing in the "job wheel" pic.

All promotional stuff..you know, artistic license and all.

[Pwnagraphic]

It's okay to wonder or hope. It's pretty blatant and we don't know for sure so I don't see why everyone is positive of what it is or isn't in that picture. It's a concept of all the JOBS available and people keep calling it an Arcanist which is a class anyway.