Quote Originally Posted by Xeia View Post
As for ACN -> SCH, I suppose the link could still work without changing the in game lore already set up for the class. The way the official page describes them reminds me strongly of the Alchemists from Full Metal Alchemist and they were all pretty... research-driven, as Scholars ought to be. The only issue is Carbuncle, though rumor has it that he's a class-only ability. (I've hunted and asked around but still haven't managed to find a source for that. If somebody has one I'm very interested, please share.) Even if he is restricted to ACN, though, I'm not crazy about the idea of SCH's base class basically having a summon.

I just can't get over the fact that both new jobs use the same weapon, and that only one new class has thus-far been announced. :S I do trust in Yoshi's team for the most part, but they have already made some decisions which made me cry a little on the inside.

Oh god no more elemental strengths/weaknesses... why?
Since ACN has already changed since 1.0 i.e. they were planned to use mechanical staves and attack by planting "Runes" (or magical traps) on the floor... and that has already changed a lot! Carbuncle IS ACN only, as mentioned in the Special Talk back in September:

"Instead of Carbuncle, Summoners can call upon pets imbued with the power of the Primals" (@54:01)

And I agree, SCH's class should not be able to access a summon... it's a bit too far out of the SCH capabilities in my opinion, even though in other games they have been able to access dark, elemental, healing (etc) magics to some degree, summoning just makes me weary.

And the elemental thing bugged me sooo much when I first heard, but I'm over it now and understand why they did what they did. I think it's a good move, now I actually understand their reasoning.