Scholar... SAY WHUT?

[hideka]

how come nobody is talking about the fact that SE snuck a scholar into the Desktop artwork they recently released?

[hideka]

shes hiding there on the right hand side right above the black mage and just below the monk >_ >

[Kallera]

shes hiding there on the right hand side right above the black mage and just below the monk >_ >

Several weeks ago...

[hideka]

sorry for being ill informed and extremely late >_> still. scholar is my nerd job. loved it in 11, still love it in 11, and will probably full time it in 14 if its even half as good.

[normalforce]

Either SE is trolling us or it's going to be a somewhat surprise come release. They weren't very circumspect about it in that picture, as if thousands of eyes would miss something like that. But it hasn't been announced as a job as of yet. At least as far as I'm aware.

[Alaltus]

We're waiting on the answer at this point. It's clearly a Scholar outfit, looks to me to be a mix of FFXI SCH and FFIII SCH. You can't see it on the picture you showed there, but the Book has a face on it if you zoom in, so it may not be just a book she is holding. She has medals pinned on her chest, for military service?

[Fantasia]

There's been massive amounts of debated and arguments, each with good points on each side for it being SCH, and points for it being ACN.

Bottom line is we just don't know yet. I hope it IS SCH, because we need another healer job, and I loved it in XI =$ But there's still the possibility that it is just ACN.

[Anonymoose]

I'm actually glad to see so many people deciding to not take a stance on this one. Usually there'll be a huge debate over the speculative evidence, and I'm usually able to suss out where it's headed (the old "Which mage becomes BLM" debate, the "is it a barcher" debate, etc.) but this one's just too close to call.

That's clearly Scholar's aesthetic, but in fantasy worlds, scholar and arcanist are very similar concepts - a gatherer of useful and sometimes secret knowledge. Between that and the book, there's just as good a case for SE wanting Arcanist front and center with Summoner for the release of the class/job as there is for there being a job we know nothing about coming from a class we've never heard of... unless it comes from Musketeer, which would just be great to watch unfold after the ARC > BRD incident ... or maybe they've even finally caved of class to job branching.

We're just going to have to wait until E3 and see what they've got up their sleeves. Too much in the air right now.

[Sirakitty]

on the other hand theres just jobs on there and then it should be summoner but summoner is on there already...

[Niqote]

As far as we know they have revealed the headgear for Arcanist since previous pics have not done so.
Other then that it is all just speculation/waiting for next live letter.