The problem with Green Mage of that ilk is that kind of "does their job by improving others instead" gameplay sorta crashed and burned with Astro.

Balancing AST initially meant lower potencies on everything else, since the thought was the buffs would boost the party enough that you would be fine with the weaker heals. Buffbuffbuff later and AST's heals are on par/more powerful than the other two healers, they are almost indispensable for group content since they still have those buffs.

I'm not sure SE would want to try that kind of style again, even with a DPS.


Personally, I'd prefer a Green Mage being more of the DoT mage, now that SMN is moving away from that status.