Quote Originally Posted by Elexia View Post
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.
What's your point? RDM was in FF1 so it predates Scholar, as does Thief and both were passed up in favor of a job that all it does is amalgamate WHM and BLM together and have a few unique abilities. I honestly would have rather seen another ranged damage dealer like Musketeer over yet ANOTHER caster class. I thought Arcanist rounded out the caster repertoire well enough. Is Scholar just going to be something to fill in the holes when someone doesn't want to play WHM or BLM?