So! Dancer didn’t work out, what should be next?

What is everyone’s thoughts on the next possible healer class? I’d say something cute or fun.

Ready the memes in preparation for the inevitable rush job that will be the healer role's new kits come 5.0.

Will we get a healing job with little to no means of burst healing in raids again?

Will we get a healing job with little to no AoEing in dungeons again?

Will we get a healing job with no utility and little else to offset that?

Will one of the healers get a poorly thought out and literally game changing healing oGCD again?

Will Yoshida make good on his promise to Aoi Yuuki? (Yuuki-san plays WHM, and Yoshida hesistated but hinted that WHM will be made much easy to play.)

We'll find out in the patch notes =(

White Mage is a bursty, reactionary healer. Scholar takes the role of preventing damage via shields. Astro is a mix of both and gives the party buffs via cards. I think the natural progression of the next healer should involve debuffing the enemy while healing. Just a few ideas off the top of my head

- Able to apply debuffs such as vulnerability and all resistance downs (piercing, slashing, blunt, magical) .
- Has a debuff that is applied to a mob (that can be spread with a Bane type ability for SCH), with reduced effectiveness the more enemies it is put on, that heals all attackers for 20% to 40% of all damage done per skill/spell attack. Higher % of course being with CD buffs to self.
- Could focus on HoT spells that can be enhanced to provide stronger healing/better duration with CDs or consume certain ones to provide a huge burst of healing.
- Paladin type cover ability which will link you to another player, changeable at will of course, for a short period of time which will split damage taken 50% for each. Some tank busters will avoid this but others are suddenly 50% less effective.
- Able to transfer DoTs on friendly targets to yourself, or an ability to swap debuffs into buffs. Hit with a morlbro's breath? Suddenly your target has 9 buffs!

Would be pretty interactive I'd think, juggling all that.

Still stand by Chemist and Geomancer. But I wouldn't rule-out an original job either.

Beside an original healer, I'd really love to have the Chemist as next healer..

If the rest of the playerbase's reaction to Healers being annoyed at being shafted again is any indiciation.

We should be ready to lick the bottom of Yoshi's boots and thank him for the opportunity.

But on a serious note, I don't think we can really be expecting anything until 6.0 now. Unless you think having more samey healing given to use in the guise of balacing counts as a thing

Well there is a rework of the battle system.
I'm not expecting anything that will shake healing fundation but who knows.

Maybe healer will change so much that it would be akin having new healers.

Like AST diurnal / noc and SCH eos/selene drastically changing healing (beyond 1~2 spells or hot vs shield) with something new to WHM

Again, I'm not expecting that, but who knows. They can't be oblivious to the point of not knowing healer were expecting a new healer after SB

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Originally Posted by Sylvain

Well there is a rework of the battle system.
I'm not expecting anything that will shake healing fundation but who knows.

Maybe healer will change so much that it would be akin having new healers.

Like AST diurnal / noc and SCH eos/selene drastically changing healing (beyond 1~2 spells or hot vs shield) with something new to WHM

Again, I'm not expecting that, but who knows. They can't be oblivious to the point of not knowing healer were expecting a new healer after SB

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Of course they were expecting it, we should've been expecting as well after the red flag of the Trust system was introduced. They knew healers would be p***ed so they introduced a system to allow people to level without them. Sucky that they decided that creating an AI for dungeons was a lot less work than giving 1/3rd of the trinity some attention.

I saw someone mention Green Mage as a magic and hammer user from FF Tactics in another post, and thought it could be interesting. The hammer also made me thinking of Meru from 'The Legend of Dragoons' game whom also uses a hammer (she's also cute and fun). Maybe a healer that constantly channel their single-/multi-target heals and such by resting their hammer on the ground with a leylines looking circle surrounding them, and if the enemies come too close hits them with the hammer? Lobbing magic by hitting it with their hammer, for Cure III/melee aoe ground pound attack type magic? Pounding the ground for Medica/Helios type healing? Sorry if I'm not making much sense, these ideas just popped into my head, and I wanted to air my thoughts.

Whats next should be fixing BLU. If green mage somehow gets in as a real job before BLU I'll be very upset