As an Arcanist you should be focusing on INT as this increases magic attack power.

Actions

Actions are skills that the Arcanist can equip to their bar and select to use at any time as long as their timer is available. Actions used in a combo will generate additional damage and effects. All Arcanist actions are exclusive to that job.


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	Name	Level	Cast	Recast	MP	TP	Range	Radius
	Gouge	1	0	3	0	0	3y	0y
	Deals earth damage with a potency of 70. Additional Effect: Increased enmity
	Shining Topaz	1	0	15	0	0	0y	5y
	Deals earth damage with a potency of 60 to all nearby enemies. Additional Effect: Increased enmity When Obey is active, will only execute upon command.
	Gust	1	1	3	0	0	25y	0y
	Deals wind damage with a potency of 90.
	Backdraft	1	0	90	0	0	5y	0y
	Deals wind damage with a potency of 80. Additional Effect: 15-yalm knockback When Obey is active, will only execute upon command.
	Bio	2	0	2.5	0	0	25y	0y
	Deals unaspected damage over time. Potency: 20 Duration: 30s
	Physick	4	1.5	2.5	0	0	30y	0y
	Restores target's HP. Cure Potency: 400
	Egi Assault	10	0	30	0	0	0y	0y
	Orders your Egi to use Aerial Slash if Garuda-Egi is summoned, Crimson Cyclone if Ifrit-Egi is summoned, or Earthen Armor if Titan-Egi is summoned. Maximum Charges: 2 Can only be executed while in combat.
	Summon II	15	0	3	0	0	0y	0y
	Summons a support-type pet to fight at your side. Shares a recast timer with Summon and Summon III .
	Energy Drain	18	0	30	0	0	25y	0y
	Deals unaspected damage with a potency of 100. Additional Effect: Aetherflow II Shares a recast timer with Energy Siphon.
	Curl	20	0	120	0	0	0y	0y
	Decreases damage suffered by pet by 20%. Duration: 20s When Obey is active, will only execute upon command.
	Downburst	20	3	30	0	0	25y	5y
	Deals wind damage with a potency of 80 to target and all enemies nearby it. When Obey is active, will only execute upon command.
	Storm	40	0	40	0	0	3y	0y
	Deals earth damage with a potency of 60. Additional Effect: Stun Duration: 2s When Obey is active, will only execute upon command.
	Shining Emerald	40	0	60	0	0	25y	0y
	Increases target's magic damage taken by 10%. Duration: 15s When Obey is active, will only execute upon command.
	Egi Assault II	40	0	30	0	0	0y	0y
	Orders your Egi to use Slipstream if Garuda-Egi is summoned, Flaming Crush if Ifrit-Egi is summoned, or Mountain Buster if Titan-Egi is summoned. Maximum Charges: 2 Can only be executed while in combat.
	Miasma II	46	0	2.5	619	0	0y	5y
	Deals unaspected damage with a potency of 20 to all nearby enemies. Additional Effect: Unaspected damage over time. Potency: 10 Duration: 15s Additional Effect: Malady Duration: 24s Symptoms: Reduces HP recovered by healing magic by 20%. Additional Effect: Heavy +40% Duration: 24s Heavy effect not available in PvP areas.

Pet Actions

The Arcanist has access to a unique set of actions for controlling their pets. These are listed below.

Name

Level

Cast

Recast

Range

Radius

Pet Name

Traits

Traits are not actions and can not be equipped to your bar. They are earned as you level up and are always active. As a result they require 0 cast time and have a 0 MP and TP cost. They are also all exclusive to the arcanist class and its jobs Summoner and Scholar.

	Name	Level
	Enhanced Intelligence	20
	Increases intelligence by 8.
	Maim and Mend	20
	Increases base action damage and HP restoration by 10%. Also increases base damage and HP restoration of your pet by 10%.
	Aetherdam II	20
	Allows the stacking of up to two F201FAF201FBAetherflows0101.
	Enhanced Pet Actions	24
	20% chance of increasing spell speed by 20% when pet deals critical damage. Duration: 8s
	Corruption Mastery	26
	Upgrades Bio to Bio II.
	Supervirus	28
	Adds 15% intelligence and mind enfeeblement to Virus. Duration: 15s
	Energy Siphon	36
	Doubles the amount of MP restored by Energy Drain.
	Maim and Mend II	40
	Increases base action damage and HP restoration by 30%. Also increases base damage and HP restoration of your pet by 30%.
	Enhanced Eye for an Eye	44
	Shortens Eye for an Eye recast time to 120 seconds.
	Enhanced Rouse	48
	Shortens Rouse recast time to 60 seconds.
	Enhanced Intelligence III	60
	Increases intelligence by 24.

Role Actions

Since the Stormblood expansion for FFXIV, cross class actions were removed and replaced with the concept of "role" actions. Role actions are more generic as they don't belong to specific classes, but instead to roles such as melee DPS, magic DPS, healer or tank. The Arcanist can equip up to 10 of these.

Name

Level

Cast

Recast

MP

TP

Range

Radius

Shared PvP Actions

The following is a list of PvP actions which are shared across all classes and jobs. These can only be used in PvP areas and you are limited to selecting two of them.

	Name	Cast	Recast	MP	TP	Range	Radius
	Aetheric Siphon	0	6	0	0	25y	0y
	Activates the instrument.
	Anti-gravity Gimbal	0	5	0	0	0y	0y
	Simulates the spell Levitate using Nero tol Scaeva's odd contraption.
	Bolt	0	45	0	0	0y	0y
	Movement speed is increased. Duration: 10s
	Chimatsuri	4.5	45	0	0	8y	0y
	Concentrate	0	45	0	0	0y	0y
	Creates a barrier preventing Stun, Sleep, Bind, Heavy, Slow, Silence, and knockback effects. Duration: 10s
	Deflect	0	2	0	0	0y	4y
	Scatters potentially harmful aether.
	Doom Of The Living	4.5	45	0	0	8y	0y
	Dragonsong Dive	4.5	45	0	0	8y	0y
	Enliven	0	90	0	0	0y	0y
	Restores 50% of maximum TP.
	Final Heaven	4.5	45	0	0	8y	0y
	Delivers an attack with a potency of 9,000.
	Muse	0	90	0	0	0y	0y
	Restores 25% of maximum MP.
	Purify	0	45	0	0	0y	0y
	Removes Stun, Sleep, Bind, Heavy, Slow, and Silence from target. Can be used regardless of own status affliction.
	Recuperate	0	45	0	0	0y	0y
	Restores 25% of maximum HP.
	Safeguard	0	90	0	0	0y	0y
	Reduces damage taken by 25%. Duration: 10s
	Smoke Screen	0	2.5	0	0	0y	20y
	Throw an incendiary device that creates a blanket of smoke temporarily granting you the Stealth status.
	Ungarmax	3	30	0	0	14y	20y
	Vril	0	3	0	0	0y	0y
	Use the aetheric residue lingering on your body to temporarily disguise yourself as one of Lakshmi's loyal dreamers.

Shared PvP Traits

The following is a list of PvP traits which are shared across all classes and jobs. These can only be used in PvP areas and you are limited to selecting three of them.

	Name	Description
	Decreased Damage Taken	Decreases damage taken by 3%.
	Decreased Recast Time	Decreases recast time of additional actions by 20%.
	Increased Action Speed	Decreases weaponskill and spell cast and recast times by 3%.
	Increased Damage Dealt	Increases damage dealt by 3%.
	Increased Healing Potency	Increases spell-based HP restoration by 5%.
	Increased HP	Increases maximum HP by 5%.
	Increased MP Regeneration	Increases MP regeneration rate by 25%.
	Increased Resistance Duration	Increases duration of resistances by 50%.
	Increased TP Regeneration	Increases TP regeneration rate by 40%.

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The following comments are from our legacy commenting system.

Whitehealer	Nov 03, 2014 - 08:06:31 | Location: Unknown, South Africa
	Resurrection Resurrects target to a weakened state. As of patch 2.15: in PvP only, this spell is exclusive to Scholar. According to gamerescape Not sure tough
Anonymous	Feb 28, 2014 - 12:59:53 | Location: Nowhere, In a Box
	thunder isn't their anymore because it was removed and swapped for bliz II in 2.1
justaname [Anon]	Feb 20, 2014 - 07:42:22 | Location: Nowhere, In a Box
	Blizzard II has replaced Thunder as a cross class skill. Thunder is no longer available.
Drakon [Anon]	Jan 29, 2014 - 01:48:08 | Location: Nowhere, In a Box
	Patch 2.1 removed Thunder from being cross-class, made Blizzard 2 cross to mages instead.
MomoaxRacaseal	Jan 28, 2014 - 23:07:18 | Location: Unknown, United States
	Hmm Yeah I dont see Thunder either, just Surecast and Blizzard II
Shinsa [Anon]	Jan 20, 2014 - 17:53:00 | Location: Nowhere, In a Box
	@ Mistle - That's because in a somewhat recent update, they removed it from the list of abilities you can cross class from THM. Instead, they replaced it with Blizzard II.
eva [Anon]	Jan 14, 2014 - 22:48:46 | Location: Nowhere, In a Box
	Thunder is a thaumaturge only skill. Whitemage and arcanist can't use it anymore though, they took it out with the new update. 2 dots isn't fair apparently. ;P
Mistle [Anon]	Jan 10, 2014 - 02:52:39 | Location: Nowhere, In a Box
	Level 18 Archanist and jthunder is not avalible
Dhamp	Sep 05, 2013 - 12:17:54 | Location: Unknown, United Kingdom
	Abilities that are unlocked by completing a quest (like Bane) only appear once unlocked.
Marachello	Sep 04, 2013 - 18:13:51 | Location: Amsterdam, Netherlands
	How come I don't see level 30 "Bane" in my Actions & traits in-game? .. or is it a quest reward from the Arcanists guild.
Xenor	Aug 20, 2013 - 07:34:53 | Location: Durham, United Kingdom
	Thanks Leblanc, I've fixed it.
Leblanc [Anon]	Aug 20, 2013 - 03:32:42 | Location: Nowhere, In a Box
	Arcanist can also equip Aero

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