Scholar... SAY WHUT?

[MartaDemireux]

You misunderstand me, also look up a few posts where I tell what SCH has done in every instance it shows up in FF.

The part you quoted is my FIX for RDM and SCH, not how RDM and SCH actually are in XI. I'm saying that RDM should go the buff route with nukes and healing and SCH should go the tactical route with "oT" abilities and monster-targetable non-damaging, strategic abilities (debuffs).

Historically, RDM gets access to more damage and healing abilities than debuffs, SCH gets more access to foe-targetable, non-damage dealing abilities (debuffs) and other gimmicks in which to heal/damage/buff/debuff.

You mention FF3, FF3 RDM had up to T5 white and black magic (curaga, raise, protect, thundaga, raze, erase) while SCH only had up to T3 (Cura, Teleport, Blindna, Fira, Thundara, Blizzara). Thundaga would out damage the -ra spells and curaga would outheal the cura spells. Libra (scan in this game) is a debuff ability. This makes RDM the healer, nuker, buffer and even enfeebler (RDM even is the one to get Libra in this game as a spell) as opposed to SCH's lower magic skills and using items to heal/attack/buff/debuff and job abilities to debuff. If anything SCH functioned more like a chemist in this game and isn't much of a fair comparison but further accentuates my earlier claim that they could go in a number of directions for this job in XIV.

By "Historically" I mean every occurrence in a FF title, main series or not (such as gaiden/four heroes of light "4HoL" above), prior to FFXI.