The Arcanist Thread.

[Alkar]

defensive stats? i know its a bit early to be looking at pet tank builds but its a plausible area to explore, especially given how useful carby tank generally is. would also be pretty interesting for ACN/SMN/SCH groups

VIT is on every piece of gear that isn't an accessory but I highly doubt you'll be tanking anything worthwhile on SMN, the pet is too limited and it loses hate quite easily.

Anyway, you can still summon Carbuncle as a Summoner because you need to defeat the other primals during the story and then clear the SMN quests to unlock their Egis.

[MrSamuels]

Cleric Stance does not seem to effect the healing of your pet on Scholar, very useful for soloing. Support Faerie has a 30% spell/skill cast increase for 30 seconds on a 60 second cool down which i imagine will be changed as it seems way too strong.

[Frein]

Cleric Stance does not seem to effect the healing of your pet on Scholar, very useful for soloing.

That doesn't seem that optimal, either. If you're INT focused and you swap your stats with Cleric Stance, your pet presumably gets stronger heals (from the high MND), but your own heals suffer because of the -20% debuff and your attack spells probably weaken because the +10% buff is unlikely to make up for the massive INT reduction.

[MrSamuels]

The pet can cover any healing you need for soloing though since getting it I have not had to heal myself once during fates, story quests or class quests so that was the point of my post for solo content where healing yourself was minimal even before 30

[Enygma55]

Base MND and INT for SCH is even and balanced. How you wanna play SCH will determine how you wanna spend ur points. You can spend it on MND and make use of Cleric Stance, or just forgo Cleric and go raw INT and never have to worry about it or split it 15/15.

I cant tell yet how much MND or INT you can stack at lv 50 to compare values but SCH is gonna be a job that isnt clear cut and will vary widely on playstyle.

SMN has very high base INT vs MND and can only cross class THM and ARC skills so no Protect, Stoneskin, or Aero but you receive Raging Strike and Quelling. SMN can easily go full INT DD in a party system.

ACN is still useful as a median between full offense and full support.

[chichicha]

I was wondering, if Archer is cross class Ability.
How is Venomous Bite working? Just stand at range and shot with book?
Or you have to stand close to the mob?

[Niiro]

DoM can't use weapon skills.

[Alkar]

I was wondering, if Archer is cross class Ability.
How is Venomous Bite working? Just stand at range and shot with book?
Or you have to stand close to the mob?

You can only use Hawk's Eye, Raging Strikes and Quelling Strikes on Summoner.

[chichicha]

You can only use Hawk's Eye, Raging Strikes and Quelling Strikes on Summoner.

That's a shamed.... I thought SMN will get more DoT as Arcanist is more like DoT specialist, from my perspective.

Bio, Aero, Thunder

Am I missing any?

[LD]

I see the "stats figured out at summon" thing as kinda good news/bad news. In dungeons and instances, you're more or less locked in, but in the field it means you might want two sets of gear.

[Tokitoki]

That doesn't seem that optimal, either. If you're INT focused and you swap your stats with Cleric Stance, your pet presumably gets stronger heals (from the high MND), but your own heals suffer because of the -20% debuff and your attack spells probably weaken because the +10% buff is unlikely to make up for the massive INT reduction.

This is my concern as well. Is it really better to use cleric stance? I figure I'd rather split INT and MND than put a cure penalty on. Or if they are even you could use Cleric Stance to apply DoTs and any damage spells and turn it off for healing.

[Alkar]

That's a shamed.... I thought SMN will get more DoT as Arcanist is more like DoT specialist, from my perspective.

Bio, Aero, Thunder

Am I missing any?

SMN gets Bio, Bio II, Miasma and Thunder as DoTs. The only thing ACN has over SMN is Aero but SMN is overall more powerful anyway.

[Chamaan]

Does Int affect faerie auto-attack and attacks (honestly I'm not even sure if they have them but I assume they have a Gust style auto-attack)? Maybe you could spec all in Mnd, Cleric into Int and then summon a stronger pet. Its Mnd would be low but you wouldn't be riding that penalty and could concentrate on healing. A stronger pet auto-attack might even out to be better in some situations where you might not have time to nuke yourself.

[Zzsark]

Faeries don't attack. So no.

[Chamaan]

That's pretty lame but understandable.

[goodr]

Finally got my first job last night (Scholar), was anticipating something obvious about separately allocating my attributes, but did not see this. Perhaps I was too tired. I've been primarily going INT while leveling ACN up to 30. Now that I have scholar, I want to run something more conducive to healing (e.g. putting it all in mind), but can't see how to do that.

Anyone figure it out yet?

[Alkar]

Fairies do attack but they have physical attacks and they don't get close unless you tell them to or move near the mob yourself. (Selene does, not sure about Eos)

[Gokulo]

SCH quests are a huge disappointment after what SMN offers (at least for lv 30 and 35)

[underscore]

That doesn't seem that optimal, either. If you're INT focused and you swap your stats with Cleric Stance, your pet presumably gets stronger heals (from the high MND), but your own heals suffer because of the -20% debuff and your attack spells probably weaken because the +10% buff is unlikely to make up for the massive INT reduction.

I don't have this problem on my SCH because my INT and MND values are nearly the same.

[goodr]

I did notice when I equip the scholar job, my MND stat goes way up. Again, can anyone confirm that our separate jobs can have separate stat distributions?