Mellee Healer Geomancer

[Nekotee]

0 benefit ?

Coming from a whm it's HIGHLY surprising
Because melee range give you access to fluid aura à good dps gain
You can auto attack between spell (minor dps gain)
It favor holy because you are sure to hit everyone
If you put asylum you're healed too
You can aoe heal with cure 3 instead of shitty medica
If you got aggro you don't move the tank is here
If there is huge cone aoe you dodge them with one step on the side instead of sprint all the way out which almost never work because cone aoe have fast cast

The only downfall is that player target circle aoe will Land in melee range disrupting melee dps because it add one more to dodge

Otherwise there is only benefit to be melee range as caster ! (Heal or dps)

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BTW healer are not squishy
They are 3rd in line went it come to tanking
Tank > dragoon > heal

In my case I have nearly 19k5 hp as AST...
Which is almost more than all dps i encounter
So explain the squishyness of a healer ?

[gehrtalert]

Id play a melee healer. I think a potion-based class would be a better fit for it that a geomancer class tho. Geomancer sounds like too much of a Mage-class to be close range. I like your idea tho OP.

[Supersun]

So explain the squishyness of a healer ?

For physical damage at least tanks mitigate 30% of damage just from their armor. DDs mitigate 15-25% (more for Dragoons, less for ranged DPS). Healers/casters only mitigate 10%.

Sure, you may have more HP, but most of those melee DDs have an extra 15% effective health from their better defense from their armor.