Its been two weeks, and the dust is starting to settle.

Dancer can officially now be declared the victor of the two jobs as far as public reception is concerned. At least on Garuda, at any point in time there are twice as many DNCs as there are SCHs. However, questions have started to arise; do DNCs have sufficient abilities and usefulness for endgame? At the moment, with only a B rating in dagger skill, and a heavy reliance on TP for most of it's job abilities, against endgame type mobs it may be less than useful when daggers keep doing 0 damage. A DNC at Lv.75 will have a base 250 dagger skill, whereas THFs have 272. Fully meritted, with Love Torque, a DNC can get to 273, but that only means their daggers do as well as a just-reached-Lv.75 THF.

I do hope that SE realizes this and either provides meritable ways to gain TP, store TP or increase the dagger skill in one way or another. Right now my DNC is sitting at Lv.38, and it's been quite interesting reaching this level. Two DNCs in a party can definitely main heal, as the Curing Waltzes are all instantaneous.

As for scholar.. well, its a very mixed back. Some of the new damage-over-time spells have potential, but they're all MP-expensive, and don't last very long at lower levels. Only time will tell whether the mage community can figure out how to extend the length and make them worthwhile.