No New Healer Job In Stormblood?

My guess would be no new healer job, which really upsets me. I remember pre HW, they said that it sucked making three classes and they weren't gonna do that again. It would seem odd to me if they teased RDM at US, confirmed RDM at JP and teased whatever spiderman means, and then confirmed TWO more jobs at EU. More likely is that they will just confirm whatever Spiderman means at EU and we'll just get two jobs in 4.0. I'm not claiming to know what Spiderman means, but I can't see any rational explanation that results in a healer. My best guess is that its either the Sam Rami thing and it means Samurai as a tank, or they're gonna do some sort of blue mage/beastmaster type thing as a dps. My money is on tank though, because it would be odd to release two dps and zero tanks or healers. Although they may do a mid expansion job release for a new healer, kinda like they did with NIN?

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Originally Posted by IamDaveDaveson

Although they may do a mid expansion job release for a new healer, kinda like they did with NIN?

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This is what I'm betting on. They probably regret having had 3 new jobs to balance right out of the gate in 3.0 and will postpone one for a few patches.

Of course we could just be getting trolled by Yoshi and Team, but we'll see.

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Originally Posted by Cynfael

This is what I'm betting on. They probably regret having had 3 new jobs to balance right out of the gate in 3.0 and will postpone one for a few patches.

Of course we could just be getting trolled by Yoshi and Team, but we'll see.

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Didn't they say they will never do a job mid expansion because it was a nightmare to balance?

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Originally Posted by Assirra

Didn't they say they will never do a job mid expansion because it was a nightmare to balance?

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Not sure, but even if they did, they might have changed their minds after tackling 3.0's huge balance issues at launch.

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Originally Posted by Assirra

Didn't they say they will never do a job mid expansion because it was a nightmare to balance?

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Things the Dev Team said are Balancing-Nightmare:
~Releasing a Job mid expansion
~Branching two-or-more jobs off of one base-class (especially if they are different roles)
~Pet Jobs

Ones that I think could fit the healer role:

-Dancer
-Bishop
-Augurer (Basically an Alchemist, but Healer style)

For those wanting a definition of an Augurer;
"An entity of human form who can effect minor enchantments, chiefly by means of the production of elixirs and potions, but, on a lesser scale, by means of hand gestures in conjunction with the proper pronouncement of "secret" words and phrases."

Augury is typically about divination, but even aside from that I'm not personally sold on an alchemical healer. It would be hard to maintain a potion theme in a game that keeps consumables down to a bare minimum.

Not that cooking meth and throwing it at party members as a Haste buff etc. doesn't have a certain absurdist appeal.

I hope so. I'd really like to see a chemist join the fray.

My issue with a Chemist healer is that it may cause a few issues with some balance. All healers at this moment are spell casters with melee weapons. A chemist has never really been a mage, and they are known to equip ranged weapons on occasion. I'm not saying being allowed to auto-attack would break balance, but not being magical may be a little weird.

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Originally Posted by Assirra

Didn't they say they will never do a job mid expansion because it was a nightmare to balance?

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I believe I remember that too. Which if true, and we get no new healer, then that means we'll be stuck with the current healers until 5.0 (which could be 2018 or 2019).