4.3: The Geomancers

[Mahrze]

Dark Knights weren't established in the canon prior to HW though, meanwhile Geomancers were established to be foils to ASTs and healers in their own right in the AST 60-70 quest line. If they do introduce Geomancer they'll have to find a way to set them apart from AST and CNJ on at least a lore front, because right now there's nothing there. They use the same elements as CNJ and were established to be AST's matches, the biggest difference is that geomancers look at Hydaelyn whereas ASTs look at the starts, but it's ultimately the same aether. The comparison was the core of the AST 60-70 line. In many ways it buried the job's chances of making it into the game as it opened the door for it.

All the more reason why it'd be nice if they added Geomancer's concept to WHM and drop the WHM crap of it being "the pure healer"

[BillyKaplan]

All the more reason why it'd be nice if they added Geomancer's concept to WHM and drop the WHM crap of it being "the pure healer"

That kind of ties back into what bothered me about WHM's quest line in SB - they didn't have one. E-Sumi-Bro and Sylphie being there as well as talking about the CNJ guild headquarters made it a CNJ story. And given how much of the 1-30 storyline was about cleansing impurities and taints, the 50-60 might as well have been a CNJ story, too. It's like they can't afford to double down on Amdapori lore like they do with Mhach for BLM and Nym for SCH which leaves them with CNJ bare-bones. So either they get over themselves and give us the WHM lore we truly deserve, detached from present-day Gridania, or double down on the CNJ lore and build up more elements of the class/job. SB BRD storyline suffered from this too but not only was it at the heart of the SB story, you ran only with BRD-story NPCs so it wasn't as bad for me.