Another image was recently released, adding fuel to the fire that scholar will be a new job in the game.



Note the Elezen female in the mortarboard on the right. It could very well be arcanist, but there's a couple reasons it may not.

1. All of the other foreground characters are jobs, not classes.
2. All of the other foreground characters are wearing artifact armor.
3. The armor is very similar to scholar's artifact armor in FFXI.
4. Previous data-mining of the early beta client revealed a message for the announcement "Scholar unlocked!"
5. Previous artwork released for arcanist also features an Elezen female, but wearing different clothes.



Are we soon going to get a formal announcement of scholar as an official job? Or is Square Enix just trying to promote arcanist since it's new?

Frankly, I'm hoping the former.