Wasn't Astro not announced till the release of Heavensward?

[Jumquat]

This is 100% false. No leak ever mentioned Geomancer. It mentioned Dancer specifically as a healer.

Astro was announced at fanfest. No job has ever been announced outside of fanfest except NIN, and that was a special case. There is no healer coming. The developers do not care about healers.

We are getting a new tank because in order to make the current tanks more unique/relevant they will be moving to a dedicated MT OT setup. Gunbreaker will balance out the tanks for those roles. They are still trying to make all 3 of the healers unique and relevant but that is much harder for them to do. So why would they release a 4th healer in this situation?

[Belhi]

We are getting a new tank because in order to make the current tanks more unique/relevant they will be moving to a dedicated MT OT setup. Gunbreaker will balance out the tanks for those roles. They are still trying to make all 3 of the healers unique and relevant but that is much harder for them to do. So why would they release a 4th healer in this situation?

That is kind of like saying it is too hard so they shouldn't bother. This isn't a new issue. They have had this problem since AST came in. They tried to introduce a new healer while keeping the same meta they created with SCH and WHM and it didn't really work and made healers a balancing nightmare. However currently they have shown no indication that they are going to fix the root cause of that, which is how healing works in FF14.

Fundamentally, healing is too powerful in this game and damage is too bursty. It creates a situation where there is little room for different styles of healing. Now I would love them to fix this to allow for greater variance in healing styles, but if that isn't going to happen, which is quite likely since they certainly didn't address it the last time they tackled this issue in SB, then I would prefer to at least get something new to the mix just for variance because otherwise we will never get anything new.