The Remaining Healers

[lyndwyrm]

PS This forum is ridiculously restrictive in useful areas and surprisingly liberal in the BS department (insert HUGE graphics)

You can edit your posts past 1000 characters. I almost always end up typing up a post, getting the error, Crtl+A, Ctrl+X, "posting in edit", post it, edit it, and paste in the actual post. My understanding is that mobile doesn't have an edit? Which would prove to be a problem with doing this.

Can someone just explain to me how they are suppose to market Red Mage? I'm one of those that don't think they are going to add Red Mage. Purely because I don't think it's going to draw new people to the game. Especially when the budget for Stormblood has increased dramatically over Heavensward. They are going to add jobs that come across as 'flashy', like the HW jobs.

Red Mage might strike at a fraction of people for nostalgia purposes but the majority of people won't know what Red Mage is and will think it's bornig.

I'm coming at this logically, the marketing potential is what's going to determine 4.0 jobs, not fan desire

I don't want to flat out disagree with you, but what "marketing" did they do for DRK/MCH/AST? I recall hearing about a Batman and a 007 T-shirt for heavensward, and I recall official announcements for the jobs. At this stage I've heard about a scarlet witch shirt, which screams red mage. Red mage has a history as long as White and Black mage, and at the very least it's been in all the re-releases of classic games. I also really don't think people will think the concept of being able to cast both healing and damaging magic while wielding a sword is boring. Further, a huge bullet point in the re-launch of the flopped 1.0 was to pander to fans more, which is why we have all these classes that aren't classic morph into jobs that are. That's not to say fans will straight up decide what jobs will be next, but it is to say that fan desire will have an appreciable effect.

On topic: I thought Geomancer had more healing effects than it does (basically none) but a number of Mog's dances in FFVI (which were based on the surrounding area) had healing effects. So while I was mistaken about Geomancers healing, I still think they could work as a healer, especially if they allowed them to have multiple ground AOEs going on simultaneously (which probably isn't going to change though).