Scholar... SAY WHUT?

[CorwinAurilliac]

I have a gut feeling at release we will see at least 3 new jobs/classes:

Arcanist/SMN
Musketeer/???(Red mage or Chemist I think fit best)
Because with the addition of ACN and MSK each city state has 3 guilds.


And now SCH

And maybe even more.



I think the SCH guild is going to be one of two things:
1) In a new location somewhere.
2) Class requires you to jump between CNJ and THM guilds as you progress for the guild quests.

I think number 2 makes sense because SCH is traditionally WHM/BLM mix.

So in regards to the armoury chest only having 8 soul slots/25 slots I think they have built this into beta so that they don't give away the final number of new classes coming out at release.

Just my two cents

[Fantasia]

I have a gut feeling at release we will see at least 3 new jobs/classes:

Arcanist/SMN
Musketeer/???(Red mage or Chemist I think fit best)
Because with the addition of ACN and MSK each city state has 3 guilds.


And now SCH

And maybe even more.



I think the SCH guild is going to be one of two things:
1) In a new location somewhere.
2) Class requires you to jump between CNJ and THM guilds as you progress for the guild quests.

I think number 2 makes sense because SCH is traditionally WHM/BLM mix.

So in regards to the armoury chest only having 8 soul slots/25 slots I think they have built this into beta so that they don't give away the final number of new classes coming out at release.

Just my two cents

I'd imagine Musketeer > Corsair, since it's a job in XI and Limsa is full of pirates. And I wouldn't mind seeing SCH be a new form of "advanced" class, which you unlock by levelling up (like you mentioned) WHM and BLM to 50 and completing their job stories... it's an interesting concept (and would work much better than the multi-job system).

And I only think there's a slot in the armoury chest for job crystals so you can have multiple sets for the same job, such as WHM/DD-WHM, and tank-WAR/DD-WAR etc.

[Pwnagraphic]

I have a gut feeling at release we will see at least 3 new jobs/classes:

Arcanist/SMN
Musketeer/???(Red mage or Chemist I think fit best)
Because with the addition of ACN and MSK each city state has 3 guilds.


And now SCH

And maybe even more.



I think the SCH guild is going to be one of two things:
1) In a new location somewhere.
2) Class requires you to jump between CNJ and THM guilds as you progress for the guild quests.

I think number 2 makes sense because SCH is traditionally WHM/BLM mix.

So in regards to the armoury chest only having 8 soul slots/25 slots I think they have built this into beta so that they don't give away the final number of new classes coming out at release.

Just my two cents

I think you might be right. I hate to create more speculation, and I'm sure you've guys have seen this and discussed it to no end somewhere else, but what are your opinions of Ferne's post with this "wrstwbuch&yjn%ceki#@urfoldm&ierfeiariuferru."

Could be nothing.. Obviously we've seen Scholar in there, and Thief, but what's everyone think about this? Out of all the things we've over analyzed in the last 3 years, this is probably the one thing we need to do it too lol.

[Xeia]

I think you might be right. I hate to create more speculation, and I'm sure you've guys have seen this and discussed it to no end somewhere else, but what are your opinions of Ferne's post with this "wrstwbuch&yjn%ceki#@urfoldm&ierfeiariuferru."

Could be nothing.. Obviously we've seen Scholar in there, and Thief, but what's everyone think about this? Out of all the things we've over analyzed in the last 3 years, this is probably the one thing we need to do it too lol.

While I think it likely it means a new class and/or job, I don't think there's much to be gained by over-analyzing the keyboard smash itself, as has been done elsewhere. We're starting to look desperate. lol

But, even having said that, I do love a little bit of over-analyzing as much as the next girl, so!

We all know that when they pick questions for the live letter they do at least a little filtering. They don't let Foxclon ask questions Yoshi-P has zero intent of answering.. it's always things like "more information on this will be released between phases 3 and 4" or "we would like to implement something like this in the future" if nothing solid but never just, "Nope, no news." EXCEPT for that musketeer question.

My guess? They just wanna make sure we remember how bad we want Musketeer before E3 starts up and they announce it.

FERN! Is that the class you're waiting for?!?!?!

[Pwnagraphic]

We're addicted.. I may need an intervention when this is all said and done.

[SkyeWindbinder]

We don't know what it does in this game, yet.

In FFIII, it used elemental "Tomes" to attack, and had the ability to Cure as well as most other jobs.

In XI, it had the potential of switching between 2 modes: Light Arts and Dark Arts, which made it very versatile and (frankly) and amazingly fun job to play!

Light Arts = Boosted Healing, Enhancing, and Divine (e.g. Holy/Flash) magic skills, and granted access to more white magic spells (When you used a certain skill, "addendum") when Light Arts was active. It had access to a lot of unique abilities, such as transforming single target buffs into AoE, reducing cast/recast time by 50%, increasing the duration of enhancing magics, increasing potency of cure spells etc, as well as unique spells, such as a TP regen, enmity boosts/suppression, and very potent Regen spells.

Dark Arts = Boosted Elemental, Dark, and Enfeebling magic skills, and granted access to more black magic spells. Also had unique abilities such as making single target debuffs AoE, reducing MP cost by 50%, blah blah. Could access many BLM spells, but only single target BLM spells at their highest teir (e.g, Blizzard V) though, but could increase their power and gave some BLMs a run for their money.

In that case, "scholar" is a sort of weird name for a class like that. How about "magi" or "sorcerer"? Those would be better.

[Mjollnir]

In that case, "scholar" is a sort of weird name for a class like that. How about "magi" or "sorcerer"? Those would be better.

At the moment, all of the jobs in XIV are in XI. That just seems to be the theme they're following.

[Diyne]

Sorry--let me clarify. While I may want red mage, I do understand that there is a need for specific role fulfillment. As I asked in my ending question. I would love to see the 'basic' jobs put into the game first. But the game needs a second healer, and maybe another support dd. I am assuming what party roles are needed here, with our current class/job setup: If Summoner is a support dd, and Scholar a healer, that's great! That means we've got two healers (WHM, SCH), 2 melee DD's (DRG, MNK), 2 tanks (PLD, WAR), 2 support (BRD, SMN), and a Mage DD (BLM)If they added red mage in as a healer? I'd be rather frustrated. I'm sorry, when I posted that the other day, I was moreso just frustrated with the fact that basic jobs weren't put into the game first, over what I would considered 'advanced' jobs in the 'Final Fantasy' scheme of things. We need more of certain roles first.

I am curious if we'll see two new classes as well. However, Scholar is generally, at least to the FFXI crowd, uses a book as a weapon, yes? Summoner/Arcanist has been shown previously as using a book as well. If both of these jobs use a book, then Arcanist being the class derivative of these jobs would make a lot of sense, and mean that other jobs could later be opened up from classes that already exist.

Sorry, mulling here. An example, though I believe it's been mentioned before that they may be making 'two daggers' as a one handed weapon (similar to pugilist) for this-- Gladiator, in 1.0 at least, could use daggers. What if they could take off their shield, and equip a second dagger in their off hand? Replace all of their Shield abilities with a new, two-daggers ability. Maybe this opens to the job of Thief, or something.

As for early CNJ/THM, ah, nostalgia. Their spells were a confusing mess. CNJ had all the nukes, THM I think had the only HOT, and other WHM and BLM spells seemed randomly distributed between the two.

THM also had all of the Debuffs, such as Paralyze, Slow, Blind, ect. They also had Bio/Dia. If anything, I'd say THM reminded me of XI Red Mage. Otherwise though, yeah, the two mages were kind of a jumble of black/white mage spells, with conjurer having most of the blm nukes, as well as "Cure" and "Stoneskin".

[Fantasia]

In that case, "scholar" is a sort of weird name for a class like that. How about "magi" or "sorcerer"? Those would be better.

It's just a semi traditional name =) It's considered a SCH because it uses Grimoires to switch between its Arts.
I.e. when it's in Light Arts it uses a white Grimoire as an encyclopaedia for its spells, and vice versa for Dark Arts.

[SkyeWindbinder]

It's just a semi traditional name =) It's considered a SCH because it uses Grimoires to switch between its Arts.
I.e. when it's in Light Arts it uses a white Grimoire as an encyclopaedia for its spells, and vice versa for Dark Arts.

Oh, I think I understand now. Well, it does make sense put like that.