Job Idea: Aethochemist (Healer)

Aethochemist (ACH)
Pure Burst Healer with Delayed Heals and Resource Mixing
Weapons: Hand Cannons
Limit Break: Lapis Philosophorum
Inspiration: Cannoneer from V and Tactics A2, Chemist from V and Tactics, Alchemist from X-2, Flintlocks from Tactics A2, IRL Alchemy terms

https://vignette.wikia.nocookie.net/...20061220224340

TL;DR version
• Chemists/Alchemists battle medics that launch potions at your face with hand cannons
• Place healing bombs on partymembers that go off when they reach 50% HP or lower, their timers run out, or you manually set them off
• Use a special stance to change your basic GCD heals into ones that place healing bombs
• Collect two different types of “Item Shells” from your GCDs. You can then mix two of these shells for varying effects

Skills and Mechanics

Button Count: 22

Gauge(s)
• Item Shell Slots: Two boxes show which Item Shells the user currently has stored. The Left box shows the most recent, the right showing the older.
• Mixed Slot: A third box to the right of the Item Shell Slots that shows what effect the two Item Shells the user has will produce with the Mix Ability.
• Triage Monitor: A light that turns on when the user has Field Triage Activated

https://i.imgur.com/7hTdTw3.pngItem Shells and Mixinghttps://i.imgur.com/7hTdTw3.png
When the player uses certain skills, they gain an Item Shell that corresponds to the type of skill they just used:
• Potion Mortar, Potion Salvo, Emergency Hi-Potion, and Emergency Potion Salvo grant Potion Shells
• Blast Mortar, Sunburst, Vitriol Shell, and Scatterburst grant Grenade Shells
These shells can then be used for various skills.
Item Shells can only be gained during battle.

Item Shell Skills
• Mix: Ability, 2 charges. Can only be used when the user has 2 Item Shells stored. Uses up the 2 Item Shells the user has stored and combines them. The effect varies depending on the combination of shells. Instant cast time, 60 second cooldown.

Mix Effects
○ Potion Shell x2: Aqua Vitae: Heal a selected target (700).
○ Potion Shell + Grenade Shell: Alkahest: Heals all partymembers within 20-yalms of the user (250) and heals them over 15 seconds (150).
○ Grenade Shell x2: Pineapple: Damage a target and all enemies within 8-yalms of them (600 for the first target, 40% less for the remaining).

• Dispensary: Ability. Can only be used while the user is holding an Item Shell. Use up the user’s oldest Item Shell. The effect varies depending on the type of shell. Instant cast time, 30 second cooldown.

○ Potion Shell: Grants a healing over time effect on a targeted player for 18 seconds (400).
○ Grenade Shell: Increases the damage the user next 2 weaponskills deal by 3% (duration: 15 seconds).

• Shell Transmutation: Ability. Has 2 charges. Changes the user’s oldest Item Shell to the other. Instant cast time, 60 second
• Emergency Ether: Ability. Use up the user’s oldest Item Shell. Restore 2000 MP to a selected target. Instant cast time, 60 second cooldown.

DPS Toolkit
https://i.imgur.com/LWuvSPO.pngWeaponskillshttps://i.imgur.com/LWuvSPO.png
• Single Target Burst: Blast Mortar (240) > Sunburst (340)
• Single Target DoT: Vitriol Shell (85 initial burst + 75 over 30 seconds)
• AoE: Scattershot (150, all enemies within 8-yalms of the user)
All Weaponskills have an instant cast time, 2.5 second recast, have no MP cost, and grants the user a Grenade Shell upon successfully landing (Sunburst granting a shell upon performing a combo). Weaponskills use the caster’s MND stat.

Healing Toolkit
https://i.imgur.com/FlAaKhA.pngBasic Healing Kithttps://i.imgur.com/FlAaKhA.png
• Potion Mortar: Spell. Heal a select target (750). 1.5 second cast time, 2.5 second recast time. 700 MP cost. Grants the user a Potion Shell.
• Potion Salvo: Spell. Heals all partymembers within 20-yalms of the user (450). 1.5 second cast time, 2.5 second recast time. 900 MP cost. Grants the user a Potion Shell.
• Rebis: Spell. Heal all partymembers within a selected 20-yalm area (350). Then damage all enemies within the affected area, equal to the highest amount healed (minimum of 400, maximum of 900). Instant cast time, 120 second cooldown. 700 MP cost.
• Emergency Hi-Potion: Ability. Has 2 charges. Heal a selected target (600). Additionally, grants the user a Potion Shell. Instant cast time, 40 second cooldown. Shares a cooldown and charges with Emergency Potion Salvo.
• Emergency Potion Salvo: Ability. Has 2 charges. Heal all partymembers within 20-yalms of a selected partymember (300). Additionally, grants the user a Potion Shell. Instant cast time, 40 second cooldown. Shares a cooldown and charges with Emergency Hi-Potion.
• Smelling Salt: Ability. Resurrect a fallen target into a Weakened condition. Instant cast time, 30 second cooldown. 2400 MP cost.
• Fixatio Aether: Ability. Place a 30-yalm circle in a selected area for 15 seconds that reduces the damage partymembers within receives by 10%. Additionally, heals all partymembers within the circle over time (100). Instant cast time, 60 second cooldown.
• Prime: Ability. For 15 seconds, increase the user’s Healing Potency by 20% and the Healing Potency of Vital Burst affects the user has placed by an additional 10%. Instant cast time, 120 second cooldown.

https://i.imgur.com/pNfYnID.pngVital Burstshttps://i.imgur.com/pNfYnID.png
Vital Burst is an effect several of the Aethochemist’s skills can place on a target that last for 15 seconds, healing them when their HP reached 50% or less, when the effect timer ends, or when the user manually detonates all Vital Burst effects they’ve placed via the Burst Projection ability. Vital Bursts have their own potencies and Vital Burst with stronger potencies overwrite one with weaker potencies.

Vital Burst Skills
• Burst Projection: Ability. Causes all Vital Burst effects the user placed to detonate, healing their target. Instant cast time, 2.5 second cooldown.
• Safeguarding Burst: Ability. Grants a Vital Burst effect onto a target for 15 seconds, healing them when their HP reaches 50% or lower or when the effect time ends (500). Additionally, decrease damage the target receives by 5% for 15 seconds. Instant cast time, 30 second cooldown.
• Citrinitas Burst: Ability. Grants a Vital Burst effect onto all partymembers within 20-yalms of the user, healing them when their HP reaches 50% or lower or when the effect time ends (600). Additionally, decrease damage affected partymembers receives by 3% for 15 seconds. Instant cast time, 60 second cooldown.
• Virtue Manipulation: Ability. Changes all Vital Burst effects the player has placed into Vital Aegis barriers, which will absorb damage with a potency equal to their original healing potency (Duration: 15 seconds). Instant cast time, 60 second cooldown.

Field Triage
Using the ability Field Triage, the user can augment their two basic GCD healing spells, allowing them to place Vital Burst effects. These different versions replace the original skill on the hotbar and cannot be manually placed.

Potion Mortar becomes Potion Burster
Potion Salvo becomes Burster Salvo

Field Triage Skills
• Field Triage: Ability. Augment certain spells. Instant cast time, 1 second cooldown.
• Potion Burster: Spell. Grants a Vital Burst effect onto the target for 15 seconds, healing them when their HP reaches 50% or lower or when the effect time ends (600). Additionally, grants the user a Potion Shell. Instant cast time, 2.5 second recast. 900 MP cost.
• Burster Salvo: Spells. Grants a Vital Burst effect onto all partymembers within 20-yalms of the user, healing them when their HP reaches 50% or lower or when the effect time ends (500). Additionally, grants the user a Potion Shell. Instant cast time, 2.5 second recast. 1000 MP cost.

https://i.imgur.com/ehQSbKJ.pngMagnum Opushttps://i.imgur.com/ehQSbKJ.png
Magnum Opus is a one-button series of skills that uses the effect granted by the previous skill to grant a greater boon. Once you use one of the skills, the button will switch to the next part.

Magnum Opus: Nigredo > Magnum Opus: Albedo > Magnum Opus: Rubedo > Repeat

• Magnum Opus: Nigredo: Ability. Place a Nigredo barrier on all partymembers within 20-yalms of the user that will absorb damage equal to a heal with a 300 potency (duration: 15 seconds). Instant cast time, 40 second cooldown.
• Magnum Opus: Albedo: Ability. Place an Albedo effect on all partymembers within 20-yalms of the user for 15 seconds, healing them over time (150). Additionally, if any of the affected had a Nigredo barrier that was placed on them by the user, remove it and grant them an Ablutio effect for 15 seconds, increasing HP healed via any healing action by 10%. Instant cast time, 40 second cooldown.
• Magnum Opus: Rubedo: Abilityl. Damage a selected target and all enemies within 10 yalms of them (600 for the first target, 40% less for all remaining), then heal all partymember within 20-yalms of the user (400). Additionally, if any of the affected partymembers had an Albedo effect that was placed by the user on them, remove it and heal them for an additional 300 potency. Instant cast time, 40 second cooldown.

There, posted it. ଘ(੭ˊᵕˋ)੭* ੈ✩‧₊˚
The second of the job ideas I made while on break (the other being Puppetmaster), this one being a reworking of my long-running Cannoneer/Medic ideas.
As with my original Medic posting, I wanted to create a more action-packed, fast paced healer that's less delicate and gruffer then the other healers.

at some point they talked about how they want healers to be magical in nature. xD

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Originally Posted by Asari5

at some point they talked about how they want healers to be magical in nature. xD

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With my design, I wanted it to still be magical (using IRL alchemy ideas for theming) but just less genteel about it. ꉂ (´∀｀)ʱªʱªʱª

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Originally Posted by Asari5

at some point they talked about how they want healers to be magical in nature. xD

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I don't remember hearing this at all. I've not read every interview Yoshida's ever done but I've been pretty glued to PLL's since at least 2013 and any events he's been part of. You wouldn't happen to know where, or at the very least when, that was said? 'cause their attempts at Chemist would indicate different priorities.

i suuport this just for my love of FFX-2

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Originally Posted by Kemiko

I don't remember hearing this at all. I've not read every interview Yoshida's ever done but I've been pretty glued to PLL's since at least 2013 and any events he's been part of. You wouldn't happen to know where, or at the very least when, that was said? 'cause their attempts at Chemist would indicate different priorities.

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sry i rarely ever remember where exactly i learned about stuff. it might have been sidetalk during a LL or in one of his countless interviews. i started paying attention to these things around ShB release but i guess this doesnt really help.
it came up at some point though and i was like: 'wait there is an alchemy-npc in ARR (thaumaturg quest) who specifically cant use magic but uses the heal aqua vitae, just use that for a non-magic healer'

I'm more of a proponent of the classic FFV style Chemist, but I do agree one needs to be in the game in some form.

It would be easy for them to make a non-magic based healer by tying it's lore to the Garleans.

They more than likely had some kind of combat medics before they had other races that could use healing magic working with them, and they would have likely used a mixture of magitek and alchemy.

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Originally Posted by NegativeS

I'm more of a proponent of the classic FFV style Chemist, but I do agree one needs to be in the game in some form.

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Same, granted I wanted to go with the more iconic Tactic's style. (*´∀`*) ~♥
With this version of my job idea, I really wanted it to feel like you were collecting items via the Item Shell system to either use on your Dispensary or Emergency Ether abilities or Mixing them with Mix. °˖✧◝(⁰▿⁰)◜✧˖°

A chemist type healer has always been a popular request. And I'll gleefully add my voice to that!

I think the idea that healers need to be magical is more a limitation that the devs initially set by slotting healers next to casters with how achievements work. There isn't actually anything in the lore of the universe that prevents it, but having a potion focussed healer would have some aesthetic traits closer to what is expected from physical ranged jobs.

What I know was said was Sage actually came out of the devs experimenting with a Chemist concept. It's hilarious and terrifying to realize that noulithes were initially conceived as syringes, but apparently they were!

I like the idea of a chemist via more magical means but that aesthetic shared in OP really isn't to my taste and I personally wouldn't touch it.

Maybe the game is just going in a different direction from what I joined it for, and I really am starting to grow tired of the oversaturation of heavy scifi elements without the fantasy. I tolerated and even enjoyed it before (Allagans, Garleans) but now it just seems... too much.

So. Do I support this idea? Not really, at least not how it aesthetically stands based on the pictures. Am I one voice in a crowd of folks who probably favor scifi given that just seems to be the game direction now? Yeah. :/

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Originally Posted by TheRealDesastr

I like the idea of a chemist via more magical means but that aesthetic shared in OP really isn't to my taste and I personally wouldn't touch it.

Maybe the game is just going in a different direction from what I joined it for, and I really am starting to grow tired of the oversaturation of heavy scifi elements without the fantasy. I tolerated and even enjoyed it before (Allagans, Garleans) but now it just seems... too much.

So. Do I support this idea? Not really, at least not how it aesthetically stands based on the pictures. Am I one voice in a crowd of folks who probably favor scifi given that just seems to be the game direction now? Yeah. :/

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I'm so mad that Machinist now uses mega sci-fi energy lasers in DT stuff and has taking a hard shift from the fun steampunk gunslinger.

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Originally Posted by Asari5

at some point they talked about how they want healers to be magical in nature. xD

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This is the problem all healers fit one general aesthetic of a backline mage, Healers could be so much more interesting if they actually tried to do something unique with them. Even sage feels very inline with other healers despite the slightly more interesting visuals and attempt at something new (gameplay wise it's just worse scholar).

If they want to appeal to a broader amount of players they have to make a healer feel fundamentally different from the rest which is unlikely because job design has been very poor for a long time.

I know people are quite attached to the idea of a Chemist as a healer, but wouldn't it perhaps make more sense in gameplay and design for a Chemist to be a ranged DPS?
They could focus mostly on poisons and other chemicals to help with battle. Even have a bit of a supportive utlity in their kit much like a red mage, (Heal, Raise, Esuna).

I'd go as far as to say it's only of the more likely jobs we get in 8.0 for that role.

Well, this turned into a lovely, little bike shed, didn't it. ꉂ(„ಡωಡ„)ʱªʱªʱª

It would be a 1 button dps healer with 1 dot of 50 potency, 10000 useless and bloated healing spells. Have fun!