Comments from the Devs

[Niiro]

One of the things I liked about ye olde 1.0 was that mage weapons (and all gear for that matter) had a litany of stats inherently and served more of a purpose than just "stat sticks" used for specific bonuses like they did in XI and the latter portion of 1.0.

[insert oft repeated diatribe about how mages losing their attack abilities and WSs was fucking lame as well]

If mage weapons directly effect spell damage again then good but I hope they at least make that clear in the weapon's stats.

[Gulkeeva]

From the amazon page of the game: "a flexible 18 choice class system"

1,2: Archer, Bard
3,4: Lancer, Dragoon
5,6: Pugilist, Monk
7,8: Gladiator, Paladin
9,10: Marauder, Warrior
11,12: Thaumaturge, Black Mage
13,14: Conjurer, White Mage
15, 16: Arcanist, Summoner
17,18: ???, Scholar

If you discount jobs and add in disciples of the land and hand the total becomes 19. Could be nothing, could be something...

From rumors spreading around.. should be several more then this >.> <.<

Won't know, on here till phase 3 though!

[Alkar]

One of the things I liked about ye olde 1.0 was that mage weapons (and all gear for that matter) had a litany of stats inherently and served more of a purpose than just "stat sticks" used for specific bonuses like they did in XI and the latter portion of 1.0.

[insert oft repeated diatribe about how mages losing their attack abilities and WSs was fucking lame as well]

If mage weapons directly effect spell damage again then good but I hope they at least make that clear in the weapon's stats.

It's clearly stated in the weapon description just like every single melee weapon.

[Niiro]

This comment

In 2.0, a huge part of the damage equation for spells comes from your weapon damage.

Made it sound like they had damage ratings (as they did in 1.0) but didn't explicitly state that they correlated to magic damage, if it's readily apparent in the 2.0 descriptions that the DMG effects spells then good.

[Agito]

Hurry up and fill in the text art so we can get official statements, you can do it even if you're English. There was a guide on the lodestone forum.

[Enygma55]

In 2.0, weapon damage for mages makes a HUGH noticeable difference in spell damage. This includes offensive and healing spells as well. Armor defense rating is also very noticeable in damage reduction.

[Eagleheart]

It is good that it is a mage job. XIV needs more healer types at the moment. o.O

I'm not upset that there's no Dark Knight yet.

Not at all. o.o Seriously.

Not. One. Bit.

(-_- ) Now excuse me while I go cry into a frosty mug of root beer, for entirely unrelated reasons...

[Iremire]

Apparently this was found somewhere anyone see this around a friend just messaged me a link to the image not sure if it's real.

[Takiwaki]

It was def dug up from dat mining, way before the leaked artwork.

[Iremire]

Then why is there even a discussion if that's scholar or not haha. Well glad they are adding another healing class, maybe?

[Waraji]

Cuz, there's nothing to do for the next 30 days before Phase 3 starts.

Edit: Oh Eminent 1337 post!

[Cutriss]

Is there a matching one for Musketeer?

Also speculation on where the Scholar guild-thing is gogogo? Seems obvious it should be Sharlayan.

[Takiwaki]

Is there a matching one for Musketeer?

Also speculation on where the Scholar guild-thing is gogogo? Seems obvious it should be Sharlayan.

The speculation that seems to make most sense is that arcanist will have 2 jobs, SMN thats gonna be a DD/enfeeble, and SCH thats gonna be Buffer/Healer.

Also when I think about it. I dont mind not having to level up new classes if Jobs are added to already existing classes later on. As long as the quest lines to obtain the Job skills and AFs are well paced and challenging enough to counter not having to level up another class.

[Alkar]

Then why is there even a discussion if that's scholar or not haha. Well glad they are adding another healing class, maybe?

Technically we're not allowed to post or talk about that image because it was leaked from the Beta files and it's still under NDA.

[xopher]

The only thing that confuses me about that wallpaper is that the possible Scholar is holding a Grimoire which is a confirmed Arcanist weapon. But everything else points to Scholar.

[Takiwaki]

The only thing that confuses me about that wallpaper is that the possible Scholar is holding a Grimoire which is a confirmed Arcanist weapon. But everything else points to Scholar.

2Jobs1class, smn and sch are jobs while the acn is the class. Thats my speculation anyways. could be so wrong and it just being a stylized rendition of acn just cus its new.

[Evane]

FFXI had Rank 11-15 pop-ups in the dats since forever. Not conclusive.

[Takiwaki]

FFXI had Rank 11-15 pop-ups in the dats since forever. Not conclusive.

I guess that's why we are speculating? lol

[Alkar]

FFXI had Rank 11-15 pop-ups in the dats since forever. Not conclusive.

We didn't have any other evidence except for those though. Here we clearly have official artwork showing a Scholar.

[Evane]

I guess that's why we are speculating? lol

I was replying specifically to

Then why is there even a discussion if that's scholar or not haha.

And sure it looks exactly like a scholar and Yoshi said on multiple occasions that he wants more DoM. But still it doesn't feel right. I mean in the same pic you see Agnes Oblige's ass from Bravely Default in the back.

Edit: Both games had Akihiko Yoshida's artwork.