Comments from the Devs

[Evane]

But my white magic casters in FFXII had bows and dancers typically use knives or short swords! But BRDs have bows in FFXIV and have access to cure which is a white magic so BRDs are actually FFXII WHMs and its DNCs are FFXIV's healers. So this means we will see THF as a class soon with a secret guild located in Little Ala Mhigo.

Edit: I feel honored to be the center of your 1337th post Waraji.

[Grey Jorildyn]

If Scholar is indeed coming from Arcanist don't expect a healer because it probably won't be (unless Scholar has a special gimmick allowing it to borrow more spells from CNJ/THM than usual).

Easily done with Light/Dark Arts. If this would be the case then balance issues will run amok all over again with SCH.

[Waraji]

Edit: I feel honored to be the center of your 1337th post Waraji.

FK >< totally forgot... Gdit... could have made it much more epic.

[Cutriss]

Hvinire's latest post bothers me. WOW does it, not sure what the problem is.

[Cutriss]

ARR to be playable at E3. 'bout time.

[Alkar]

ARR to be playable at E3. 'bout time.

Well... ARR has been playable for months lol.

[Takiwaki]

http://sphotos-e.ak.fbcdn.net/hphoto...66505738_o.jpg

Also note, a good amount of abilities there for a level 20 Thaum.

[Takiwaki]

Easily done with Light/Dark Arts. If this would be the case then balance issues will run amok all over again with SCH.

You guys really need to step out of the small bubble that is FF11, there are alot of mechanics for being a healer that can be adopted to work for SCH if it is added. I just hope 14 does indeed move from it being white magic is the only way to cure.

[Grey Jorildyn]

You guys really need to step out of the small bubble that is FF11, there are alot of mechanics for being a healer that can be adopted to work for SCH if it is added. I just hope 14 does indeed move from it being white magic is the only way to cure.

I wasn't implying this was the only way to do this. SE tends to stay within their own little bubble, not me. I play lotsa games, they don't. If they wanna make SCH a HoT healer, I'm down for that in a big way. But see, they've never done that, so until they do, it won't be incorporated into their bubble. They know one way they did it with XI's SCH so I would not be surprised if we somehow see a similar mechanic to this added. Just look at 1.0's mage abilities; many were just renamed versions of stuff in XI. This has been the cause for lack of faith in SE for years, right? They're starting to think a little outside their comfort zone now but we haven't seen the "big picture". We hope it's good, and that's what we're hanging onto.

[Rasa]

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.

Even if this is real, couldn't Scholar be the DoH class that is associated with getting books for the Arcanist.

That just seems to make the most sense to me.

[Takiwaki]

I wasn't implying this was the only way to do this. SE tends to stay within their own little bubble, not me. I play lotsa games, they don't. If they wanna make SCH a HoT healer, I'm down for that in a big way. But see, they've never done that, so until they do, it won't be incorporated into their bubble. They know one way they did it with XI's SCH so I would not be surprised if we somehow see a similar mechanic to this added. Just look at 1.0's mage abilities; many were just renamed versions of stuff in XI. This has been the cause for lack of faith in SE for years, right? They're starting to think a little outside their comfort zone now but we haven't seen the "big picture". We hope it's good, and that's what we're hanging onto.

Very good sir, I agree.

Also in that screen. Quests that take you to the dungeons and auto level sync if you go above the level range. The content finder/grouper looks proper also.

[Alkar]

Even if this is real, couldn't Scholar be the DoH class that is associated with getting books for the Arcanist.

That just seems to make the most sense to me.

Books will be crafted.
Also half the abilities on that screen aren't related to THM, most are food/emote/general icons.

[Takiwaki]

Books will be crafted.
Also half the abilities on that screen aren't related to THM, most are food/emote/general icons.

I know was just talking about the 9. 7skills/2abilities. That's not bad for level 20

[Lucavi]

I fucking love hots. Would be nice to see a HoT class in the game. Spriest, Chloromancer, ugh... so delicious.

[Spider-Dan]

You guys really need to step out of the small bubble that is FF11, there are alot of mechanics for being a healer that can be adopted to work for SCH if it is added. I just hope 14 does indeed move from it being white magic is the only way to cure.

Possibility:

- ACN is hybrid FFT-style chemist (but using an analog to XI ninja tools) with Carbuncle
- SMN gains summons (not sure how SMN could lose Carby, that would be a first for any class->job), but no chemist enhancements
- SCH gains chemistry enhancements (and loses Carby I guess?)

SCH makes more sense as a chemist (read: scientist) anyway. Does SCH have any other FF history as a mage?

[Lucavi]

FF3, yeah, though it was Sage there. The sweeping majority of blm and whm spells on both sides (way more than a red mage), though with lower int/mnd stats to offset the increased flexibility.

Think Tellah and Fusoya from IV, and if you didn't play IV, go die in a fire.

Pretty sure some new-age FF remake has scholar in it outright, but that was post-XI scholar, so its tainted.

[Cutriss]

Well... ARR has been playable for months lol.

You know what I meant. Was it playable for random attendees of Niconico? It wasn't playable or even demoed at PAX.

[Alkar]

FF3, yeah, though it was Sage there. The sweeping majority of blm and whm spells on both sides (way more than a red mage), though with lower int/mnd stats to offset the increased flexibility.

Think Tellah and Fusoya from IV, and if you didn't play IV, go die in a fire.

Pretty sure some new-age FF remake has scholar in it outright, but that was post-XI scholar, so its tainted.

Yeah, SCH is in "4 Warriors of Light" but it's not tainted really, it's a debuffer job. In the past SCH's specialty has always been Scan and Double Item Potency (in FFIII). Chemist would fit but I doubt SE wants to introduce a job that uses money to do anything after they've removed arrows from the game.

[Niiro]

Scholar and Sage were 2 different classes in FF3.

Scholar was that useless one you got early-mid game that could check enemy weaknesses (gimmick useful for an upcoming boss and nothing else, could use low level spells in the remake). Sage was the end game class that could use all spells and summons (OP in the original, less so in the remake).

[Spider-Dan]

FF3, yeah, though it was Sage there. The sweeping majority of blm and whm spells on both sides (way more than a red mage), though with lower int/mnd stats to offset the increased flexibility.

Think Tellah and Fusoya from IV, and if you didn't play IV, go die in a fire.

Pretty sure some new-age FF remake has scholar in it outright, but that was post-XI scholar, so its tainted.

FF wiki has Scholar and Sage as different jobs, with Sage being essentially Super Red Mage across the series (so, more consistent with XI SCH). In FF3, Scholar could analyze (Libra) enemies and double effects of healing items, while Sage could cast all White/Black/Summon magic (but with less MP than WHM/BLM).

A chemistry-based SCH would go back to FF3 roots but fly in the face of XI SCH.