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

[Ramesses]

Didn't see the one mentionning Geomancer.

Thank you... precisely my point to Reprobean and Kaedan

[REPROBEAN_CHILD]

Didn't see the one mentionning Geomancer.

Correction: It mentioned Blue Mage, not Geomancer. I guess I got too swept up by the fanfest hype to recall it clearly. My bad. I still think there's a chance for another healer job

[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.

[JunseiKei]

Is a new healer still possible?

They said they weren't going to do 3 jobs for an expansion.















Plus we got BLU. That's 3 already, given how late into Stormblood and close to the next expansion it was released.

[purgatori]

I can't help but think that if they didn't have to balance all the jobs for endgame, hyper role-specific stuff, then they could add in some sort of quirky healer-ish job or whatnot... But with the holy trinity being so rigidly enforced, AST is probably about as crazy as things are going to get. Hence, no new healers would be my bet.

[Maero]

Thing is most that wanted Dancer, (yes not all but good %) had wanted it as healer. So in small but unlikely chance why would they wait to announce a healer job knowing that they pissed people off?

[InkstainedGwyn]

If it's possible to have multiple DPS classes that do the same thing but look different doing it ("selfish" dps like BLM/SAM, BRD & now DNC buffs/support, etc) then it's possible to give us multiple healers that do the same thing and look different while doing it. They just won't because a majority of players are DPS who pitch a fit at the idea of not being catered to for one expansion.

I've already told my FC that I will no longer be using healer on DF for any content that requires randos. I will only bring it out to support my FC. Random DPS can rot in the queue for all I care.

[purgatori]

If it's possible to have multiple DPS classes that do the same thing but look different doing it ("selfish" dps like BLM/SAM, BRD & now DNC buffs/support, etc) then it's possible to give us multiple healers that do the same thing and look different while doing it. They just won't because a majority of players are DPS who pitch a fit at the idea of not being catered to for one expansion.

I've already told my FC that I will no longer be using healer on DF for any content that requires randos. I will only bring it out to support my FC. Random DPS can rot in the queue for all I care.

An excellent argument for the expansion of Trusts/Squadrons.

[Colino]

I was very drunk considering the early hour and I shouted at Yoshida to take my money at some point, but I do recall it being revealed at London fanfest which I participated in but remember only vaguely due to the above mentioned alcohol-induced stupor.