Scholar... SAY WHUT?

[ArkhamNative]

No surprise they'll wait for E3 to announce stuff, I guess. Millions of potential customers watching, instead of the tens of thousands already committed to ARR watching on YouTube.

Yay, SCH will live! FF14:ARR won't kill it and steal its gear. Now let the speculation move on to how.

[Delsus]

I didn't see most of the stream, but when I saw the summary and I saw the SCH confirmation, this was me http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WEtRoZ5FWNc

[Inaaca]

Yeah, if Scholar exists, SE is going to have a lot of clarity edits to make. We currently have scholars down at the Arcanist guild, goblin scholars affixing materia to things, the archons are all scholars from Sharlayan, one of the Twelve is a Scholar with a staff instead of a book... they'll basically have to CTRL+F their database and get cracking, lol.

I don't see why the existence of the Scholar job suddenly makes use of the word scholar impossible in other situations. I mean, even a travelling Monk can be considered a scholar if he's studious enough. It's still a relevant noun/adjective beyond the specific Job use.

[Elexia]

Why not Red Mage first? It seems wierd to not add in a more prevalant, basic job from the series first, over scholar. I can see not putting in more melee type jobs since the game needs some more mages, but why Scholar and not Red mage? For a specific role fulfillment?

Why RDM? At this point in time what would Red Mage do? Scholar has also been around since the early days (FFIII in terms of playable), so...what's the problem?

Arcanist already took RDM's Enfeeblist role per XI style, prior to XI RDM had abilities and certain spells that are already given as base abilities and traits to class/jobs since 1.x. Scholar has a lot more potential in this game than RDM does to be honest.

[Xeia]

Still, if they managed to keep all of that secret this long, just WOW. Yoshida's already kind of a legend... he'd be a development demigod.

Fellow fangirls and boys, let the deification begin!

[Pwnagraphic]

Naysayer's! What say you now!?

WHERE IS YOUR GOD?!

[Abriael]

I hate saying "I told you so", but I told you so...

[Elexia]

Naysayer's! What say you now!?

WHERE IS YOUR GOD?!

Trying to figure out how they can pretend they didn't deny its existence.

[Kiote]

Why not Red Mage first? It seems wierd to not add in a more prevalant, basic job from the series first, over scholar. I can see not putting in more melee type jobs since the game needs some more mages, but why Scholar and not Red mage? For a specific role fulfillment?

It's a pretty simple explanation.

We NEEEEED a healer.

The Red Mage fan base has already made it abundantly clear that they will not accept Red Mage as a Back-line substitute White Mage again. Red Mage is a Tri-Class making it next to impossible to balance Offensive Magic, Defensive Magic and Melee. The people have spoken and they want Red Mage to be a Melee. Scholar on the other hand is a Dual Class Mage, no Melee, allowing for the healer side to Flourish without hurting it's offensive side.

[Fantasia]

Trying to figure out how they can pretend they didn't deny its existence.

Tempted to go through and find all of the deleted posts and threads of people saying "It's obviously Arcanist. Stop grasping at straws, you're all ridiculous."