No New Healer Job In Stormblood?

[bounddreamer]

I think SAM is going to be the new tank, and RDM will be the new dps. Square will work on balancing the existing three healers. Also, we don't know if levels 60 - 70 will add new abilities/traits - they probably will, and existing abilities will be simplified and streamlined.

[gumas]

As much i want to see a new healer class, i dont see we will get any. Unlike tank or dps class which has many variation, what kind of healing architect left is there?

WHM is your default go to healer (standard essential core ability)
SCH is your healer that use pet as "secondary" healer
AST is your versatile healer (stance) with added luck based buff (card)

I can only think of shaman/exorcist/onmyodo "sustain" type of healer (wow monk healer) or maybe the "dark healer" archetype from the other thread

[Yuyuka3]

WHM is your default go to healer (standard essential core ability)
SCH is your healer that use pet as "secondary" healer
AST is your versatile healer (stance) with added luck based buff (card)

Just that balance is so broken right now, you only really need one healer, AST.

Let them fix the bloody mess they created before implementing another healer. Seriously, I'm so freaking angry right now... well, since Heavensward launch, I guess.

[technole]

Real talk, WHM/SCH is no longer the optimal combo in the 3.4 buff meta (It's AST/SCH). I wouldn't mind another healer where we can have more diversity with the composition, however there are several issues they have to address with White Mage lack of utility and unnecessary potency/cost ratio. Possibly toning down the balance meta with Astro and addressing the other cards we all throw away. Then the white elephant in the room with Scholar that YoshiP is so annoyed to even talk about anymore.

[Assirra]

Just that balance is so broken right now, you only really need one healer, AST.

Let them fix the bloody mess they created before implementing another healer. Seriously, I'm so freaking angry right now... well, since Heavensward launch, I guess.

I doubt that very much cause Astrologian were basically released broken.
Cards barely did anything, lower heals default and a lot less tools compared to their counterparts.

[DeadRiser]

This game doesn't have a healing "meta". Lol the only game mode that would apply to is Savage and there are hardly enough people doing it.

If they don't release a healer, I've been hoping for dancer so much, I probably will drop the game.

[technole]

It's not a healing meta, it's a buff meta. Selfish DPS contribution from MNK and WHM isn't anywhere close to what NIN and AST brings to a raid currently. I don't make the facts up, this what they turned raiding into this tier. But if you are not speed running or care about optimal compositions, it's okay. But from the end-game community that is where it stands.

[Iromi]

The expansion will start with 2 jobs but they might add a third in the coming patches.
An example would be NIN, it was added in 2.4

Team already said realsing 3 new jobs require lots of work and effort. The dev team is actually very small, much smaller than you would expect.

What he meant regarding that was they were working on FOUR jobs at once..Ninja, MCH, AST and DRK. He said they will most likely never do that again. But 3 jobs is okay, and it also does look like we are getting 3 jobs:

https://www.reddit.com/r/ffxiv/comme...unity_related/

[Exiled_Tonberry]

This game doesn't have a healing "meta". Lol the only game mode that would apply to is Savage and there are hardly enough people doing it.

If they don't release a healer, I've been hoping for dancer so much, I probably will drop the game.

When talking of anything even remotely balance related, it's almost always in a raid setting.
In dungeons and more casual content, obviously the job you play and what they offer means nothing. In a raid though, there is an extremely strong meta that people cling to for dear life.

I could bet 8/10 groups are running the same DRK/WAR/SCH/AST/NIN/DRG/MCH/Bard(or BLM). It's just so ridiculously optimal and each job plays off eachother so extremely well. There's no room for PLD, WHM or Monk in this buff crazed composition and that's just the truth.

[Yeol]

What he meant regarding that was they were working on FOUR jobs at once..Ninja, MCH, AST and DRK. He said they will most likely never do that again. But 3 jobs is okay, and it also does look like we are getting 3 jobs:

https://www.reddit.com/r/ffxiv/comme...unity_related/

I really hope so ^^
AST was announced without a hint, no one knew it was coming. So there is still a chance of getting 3 jobs.