Geomancer: Maybe someday?

I think Geomancer in FFXIV should be healer with adaptation of Luopan mechanic from FFXI. Luopan grant buff and debuff in target area same as MCH's turret. But in term of balance with other healer, I think it should have limited time unlike MCH's turret.

For an example;

• Earth luopan might increase defense and make enemy heavy in same time.
• Water luopan healing player and grant slow to enemy in target area.
• Wind luopan increase attack speed and bleed enemy in target area.
• Ice luopan increase magic defense and make enemy in area vulnerability up.

I think this way is good for play with terrain concept of GEO theme. The limited in specific area and good MP cost per cooldown will help to balance it isn't overpower than AST buff.

However, it can be DPS and make Luopan like MCH's turret. The difference is physical ranged DPS and Caster.

Yea for ego I was thinking along the same lines, geo on ff11 was set up pretty nice and was a pretty popular job as well

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Originally Posted by AmalonStar

As for the other new jobs personally from watching the teaser trailer I think they could be dancer and berserker. The way the girl was dressed and fought reminded me of the dancer job and the guy reminded me of a berserker with the way he was dressed and seemed to fight with more of a pure power and rage.

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Yoshi already confirmed them to be two monks fighting, which was more intended to reinforce that the expansion takes place in Ala Mhigo, where monks come from.

When I made my concept for Geomancer, I built it as a dps around the Wu Xing, which fit perfectly with the Taoist theme that is often seen with the job. The rotation would be much like the Monk rotation, but instead set up where using one spell would increase the damage of the next spell of the next element in the cycle with the objective of maintaining dots and ground effects while dishing out some level of burst.

As all that would direct the job toward a more Eastern theme, the origin could be placed to Othard, which would also explain the background lore to it as a possibility of Othardians finding an alternative route to the channeling and manipulation of elemental energies compared to how they are through Eorzean Conjurers and White Mages.

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Originally Posted by Kazrah

Yoshi already confirmed them to be two monks fighting, which was more intended to reinforce that the expansion takes place in Ala Mhigo, where monks come from.

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Actually, Yoshi never confirmed anything of the sort. In fact, when questioned on the girl's job, he dodged around it and went onto another question entirely, this is another reason why people are so convinced she is not Monk, let alone the cloth blades she used.

BUBBLE MAGE! would be fun having a mage specialising in the asylum/ shadowflare sort of aoe bubbles. A bubble around the casters to give them some increased damage, some reduced damage bubble around melee area, or just AOE 3 bubbles ticking to take down the enemies... seems like it would fit a "change the arena" style of play given the right animations