Job Idea: Cannoneer (Healer)

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Originally Posted by Raikai

I know it uses guns in your idea, but why not apothecary or just chemist for a name?

lmao, 1st thing that came to my mind by your title is a job blasting people to health with a healy cannonball lol

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Like Kazrah and Enla said, Chemist is too similar to Alchemist in name.
Apothecary sound a bit like it would be too similar to Alchemist too.

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Originally Posted by Kurando

The concept seems clever but I'm not big on the name; Cannoneer. It sounds like a badly named MCH action. I'm thinking more along the lines of just a simple Gun Medic rather than Mage maybe.

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I went with Cannoneer because it was a job from a past FF game (Final Fantasy Tacitcs A2). I like bringing obscure or underused jobs into the light. I also felt like I could give it a more rugged feeling compared to the three healers we have in game, who are more these delicate mages. I almost went with just Medic for it but, at least to me, it felt a bit generic and didn't have that small nod to a small part of FF's history. :B

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Originally Posted by Enla

This. You could call it apothecary and be fine, but calling it 'Chemist' would cause far too much confusion and would in the end be rather poor game design given that it shares all but three letters with a crafting class.

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Even calling it an apothecary can still create a degree of confusion among the languages this game is made in that aren't English. To avoid any and all degree of nomenclature, the creator instead opted to pick up inspiration from the Cannoneer class in FFTA2, and although I'm not a fan of that name (still prefer my Grenadier), I'd still argue that naming it after any word that could not be linked to or associated with the Alchemist crafting class was the right call.

I love this. Chemist, Salve-Maker, Cannoneer is something I've wanted forever.

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