So! Dancer didn’t work out, what should be next?

[MintnHoney]

I'd like to see a witch job; someone who creates magic healing circles and sigils with salts and herbs, chants magic spells, makes lotions, brews potions (and possibly soup), flings blessings, curses, and hexes, and even manipulates objects to defend themselves and others. Bonus points if they let our characters cackle when we successfully brew a potion or something.

[Kalise]

Copy/pasting something I commented on a YouTube video:

If we're going to take inspiration from other games...

Warhammer Online had some great healers.

Warrior Priest could sit back with a 1 handed hammer and book and cast spells using a resource that they had to channel to restore (Much like a Samurai's Meditate) or fill via casting ranged spells... Or they could grab a big ol' 2 handed hammer and go smashin' faces and healing in an area around themselves.

Disciples of Khaine were similar only they used 1 handed sword and chalice (But weren't very good at the sitting back and casting schtick) or go in dual wielding swords and being a whirlwind of steel and death. Oh, and people around them got healed, if there were any and they didn't just run off to go 1v5 a bunch of people xD But they also had a bunch of buffs, debuffs and HoTs to use while they were slicing and dicing people.

Shamans were cool. Every time they used a spell they build up a meter towards one of their 2 gods. Healing spells built towards the damage god and thus empowered your damaging spells and vice versa. This meant that you were constantly shifting between healing and harming based on what bonuses you had and what you wanted to build up.

[Valdima]

Can it be something that has outfits that people won't call me gay for wearing, at least? I love you, ast, but your level 60 set makes it look like I'm literally cross dressing.

[manamoppet]

well, lets look through some possibilities.

Chemist (i hope for this one the most personally.)
Geomancer

(these two being the most commonly talked about)

Oracle
Psychic
Necromancer
Seer
Sage
Orator (i wounder how many even remember this job existed.)

from there theres still plenty of possibilities for a brand new job made for ff14.

I'd really like to have a Psychic job. Seers are already conjurers/npc-s that can hear and communicate with Elementals. Sage and Red Mage probably overlap?

[Duskane]

need a angst healer somthing like chemist or a mad scientist type of healing

[Jaywalker]

I seriously would LOVE a dark healer class! Could be plague doctor-esque Chemist, could be some twist on Necromancer or an original caster class where healing and damage both work by manipulating the aether in the bodies of targets. Could be used to repair damage, could be used to inflict horrible contortions and/or status afflictions.

[Valdima]

I seriously would LOVE a dark healer class! Could be plague doctor-esque Chemist, could be some twist on Necromancer or an original caster class where healing and damage both work by manipulating the aether in the bodies of targets. Could be used to repair damage, could be used to inflict horrible contortions and/or status afflictions.

Hemomancer! I'd throw entire piles of money at square for a hemomancer class.

[Lozza]

My biggest concern over GEO is that from the descriptions given in the AST quest line it is a little too much like CNJ with a dash of AST - and AST is already rather a lot like WHM with a dash of SCH. Healers already have enough issues with unique identity, I feel GEO might make that worse.

Realistically however, if we are getting a new healer in 6.0 (and let's face it healers are so dreadfully hard to balance that 2 years from now we might be hearing the same thing for the third time "we need another expac to balance healers") then it will be GEO. I think there are too many hints for this job to go with anything else.

[Jaywalker]

Hemomancer! I'd throw entire piles of money at square for a hemomancer class.

THAT is a brilliant term and exactly describes what I was thinking of! I kept circling to "blood mage" but hemomancer sounds much cooler lol. ^^

[Levy9]

Geomancer - but only if it's a rugged version, not another dainty mage with a bell or staff and standard healer spell effects. Weapon is a Two Handed Hammer.

Their gear aesthetic would be cloth, but with maybe a heavier look and feel - closer to medium armor, stylistically. Maybe even make Geomancers live or practice their craft underground and give their artifact helm/hood a detachable breathing mask.

Their standard cast animation is a wind-up where they smack the ground with their hammer to cause a burst of aether to erupt from the ground underneath their target. Kind of like a healing geyser.




Chemist - A magitek caster. I envision them as wearing some sort of magitek device that they load potion vials/cartridges into. Maybe a massive magitek glove, with a ring of vials around it, similar to scholar's HW artifact armor gloves, but bigger and more detailed.

Maybe a belt/bandolier of potions for their artifact armor or coupled with their weapons.



It would have an opening that either fired the contents of the vials combined with the users Aether or used the fluids to charge the Chemist's healing magics.

Perhaps a segment of the glove would spin around the user's arm like a turbine during cast animations. Basically, a healing Barret arm but with the hand still attached. An easy AoE idea is to spray a healing mist, perhaps the game's first conal healing aoe?

Just some off-hand ideas.