Quote Originally Posted by RyuDragnier View Post
I have a feeling they're going to make Red Mage the new healer. Since they can use both WHM and BLM abilities in every FF game they're in, they will most likely have their own version of cleric stance. One that changes all their healing spells to attack spells, adding changing buffs to debuffs, etc. Meaning something that would give regen to an ally will do a DoT to an enemy, something that heals for a lot will become a burst spell, their largest AoE heal would become their version of Holy/Gravity/Flare, etc.
The main problem I have with Red Mage as a healer is that all of the healers are more or less Red Mages already (having a mix of attack and support magic) out of necessity (due to MSQs). The Cleric Stance alternative makes it sound better, though it seems pretty similar to what Cleric Stance already is (without the ability to toss out a "oh shit" heal if CS is still on cooldown...which, admittedly, is rather unlikely).


Granted, I'm not really a healer, so feel free to take my opinion with a grain of salt.