Scholars' sole defining ability is Peep or Scan. This allows them to spy on the enemy's status, HP, MP and other statistics. In other games, this is a white magic spell or other ability. With average or weak stats all-around, this makes them a fairly unused job class.

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FF3

NAME: Scholar OVERVIEW: Equips books as weapons WEAPONS: Flame Book, Light Book, Ice Book, Inferno Book, Illumina Book, Blizzard Book ABILITIES/MAGIC: Fight - Attack with equipped weapon Peep - Show enemy's HP Scan - Show enemy's weaknesses Item - Use an item from inventory ATTRIBUTES: High magic, low HP

FF4

NAME: Cid Pollendina OVERVIEW: Cid is officially an Engineer job class. WEAPONS: Uses tools best ABILITIES/MAGIC: Study/Peep - View statistics of an enemy ATTRIBUTES: High strength, low speed, low magic

FF11

NAME: Scholar OVERVIEW: A mage similar to Red Mage, but combines spells with job abilities. Their spells can also be charged consecutively rather than requiring a charge each time. They can switch between White Grimoire and Black Grimoire. WEAPONS: TBA ABILITIES/MAGIC: White Grimoire: Penury (reduce MP cost by 50%), Celerity (reduce cast time by 50%), Rapture (enhance potency of next spell), Accession (makes the spell area of effect) Black Grimoire: Parsimony, Alacrity, Ebullience, Manifestation (all have the same effects as White Grimoire spells) Tabula Rasa: Optimize both black and white magic capabilities without having to charge. ATTRIBUTES: TBA

FF: Tactics A2

NAME: Scholar OVERVIEW: In addition to viewing enemy information, scholars also have abilities that hit all characters. Unfortunately, this also includes your own party! WEAPONS: Books ABILITIES/MAGIC: Lore: Study - Reveal enemy loot and items Force - Raise resilience of surrounding allies Earth Dragon Tome - Earth damage against all Rime Bolt Tome - Ice damage against all Thunder Flare Tome - Thunder damage against all Natural Selection - Deal damage to all units of a particular race Shadow Shade Tome - Dark damage against all Mad Scientist - Random debuff against target Reaction Abilities: None Support Abilities: Spellbound - Extend duration of all status on unit

FF5: Scholars appear as NPCs.

FF5: Blue Mages have the ability to Peep and find the HP and weaknesses of an enemy.

FF7: The Sense materia allows the user to Scan an enemy.

FF10: The Sensor ability on weapons allows the user to view the HP and elemental affinities of an enemy.