And it's not a good progression from Swordmaster, having 30% less speed growth. I tried the class with Felix and it's really good (crazy magic crit), but it doesn't feel like what you want from the ultimate Swordmaster, it feels more like a crit-based mage.
Yeah. I made Felix a Savant and changed him back immediately after two test battles. He got markedly worse at dodging things and his magic damage wasn't nearly high enough to make up for the downgrade in survivability.