Quote Originally Posted by Xeia View Post
I did notice that the new concept art had every job carrying its weapon with the exception of SMN, which appears unarmed. The actual naming of the mage classes hasn't made much sense to me from the beginning. Ignoring scholar, it seems to me it should've gone (in name only):

CNJ -> SMN [To conjure something and to summon something isn't all that different. EVK works too.]
ACN -> BLM [Arcane arts, black magic, whatever. It works for SMN as well, but I think CNJ works better.]
THM -> WHM [Thaumaturgey being a term which refers specifically to miracle-like magic. Certainly something closer associated with WHMs than BLMs.]

Ignoring the fact that I don't think they name their mage classes well, I'm sort of skeptical that the class they announced for SMN is going to be moved to a different job (instead of SMN). If there's a unique class associated with SCH, my money is still on a Tactician.
I'm fine with the mage names, to be honest! Conjury makes sense in that "conjurers draw forth and absorb aether from their immediate surroundings" ... "then utilized to focus the aether until it manifests as the desired spell.", whereas the actual definition of Thaumaturgy is "an art that calls upon a supernatural power", but I suppose everyone's up to read it how they like =) I've seen a couple of threads who have stated that CNJ and THM should be switched, but personally this way makes more sense to me!

As for Arcanist, [Arcane; Understood by few; mysterious or secret.] I feel anything "dark" could fall under that category, and since Thaumaturgy is widely used in Ul'dah (whereas ACNs are supposedly a dying, forbidden, art) it makes more sense that it should be associated as such. Otherwise Limsa would be full of Carbuncles =)

But yes, I don't think the classes themselves would change, but I wouldn't be surprised if they changed the ACN/SMN weapon. If they did, my guess would be Arithmetician > Scholar, since it was a job back in Tactics that used magic of any kind (previously learnt). Obviously they'd have to change the mechanics of it for XIV, but I think it's pretty good.

Arithmetician was also one of the examples Yoshi used when they carried out the polls way-back-when.