2015 Eorzea Census - Healer-related slides

[loreleidiangelo]

I'm still hopeful they introduce at least one more class with doubles. It drives me nuts that there's only one class like it.

Pretty sure the devs said "lol nope" to that, because balancing SCH/SMN was a nightmare. SMN were pretty bottom-tier for an entire raid cycle and, whaddaya know, they sat on their hands until the expansion before fixing them, because it was easier to fix them by adding new job skills rather than to tweak their core class skills (out of fear of buffing SCH DPS).

[Alahra]

Pretty sure the devs said "lol nope" to that, because balancing SCH/SMN was a nightmare. SMN were pretty bottom-tier for an entire raid cycle and, whaddaya know, they sat on their hands until the expansion before fixing them, because it was easier to fix them by adding new job skills rather than to tweak their core class skills (out of fear of buffing SCH DPS).

Honestly, SMN was bottom tier for the last raid cycle because of Spell Speed, though, not because of any inherent problem with their job abilities. Nearly all of the caster gear in 2.4 was Spell Speed heavy, which greatly limited their DPS.

I know they're not likely to do a dual-job class again, it's just a pet peeve of mine--I hate asymmetry and outliers in game systems (it similarly bugs me that WoW's new class, the Demon Hunter, is only going to have 2 specializations when every other class has 3). The new jobs bother me too (especially MCH, since there's a Musketeer guild in Limsa already), but at least there are 3 of them, so it feels like an added component to the system instead of a weird snowflake.