New Healer Job Suggestion: Necromancer

[Archwizard]

Even on a 3m cooldown, that is definitely not a healer skill...

Aero III, Assize, Lord of Crowns, Earthly Star, Energy Siphon, Shadow Flare.
Nothing says a healer can't have extra damage skills in its pocket, particularly ones that add extra resources that can contribute to healing. The point of Death is to give the NCM a thematic CD to fill their Soul Gauge -- which is named because it is only filled by draining souls.

Besides, BLUs already have Doom. And Tail Screw, and Missile. Death's a classic Black Magic, not Blue.
If a BLM isn't getting a Death spell (and at the going rate it doesn't even have Burst yet), a NCM should.

Lore-logic-wise, I don't think I want to get "raised" by a Necromancer instead of a regular healer...

Also, on the passing comment that "scholar learning their skills from tonberries" sets a precedent for learning monstrous arts, it doesn't. Regardless of what they are in other games, in this game they are transformed humans, and the skills we learn from them originate in a human discipline from before the curse took hold. We're not learning "tonberry magic".

I like to think of it as grabbing the soul of a recent death as it rises out of the body before it passes into the Lifestream and forcefully shunting it back in, as opposed to just straight-up animating a rotting corpse.
I mean, if the entire skillset being developed here is based around channeling other souls anyway, it's a logical development.

And a Lich is a transformed human as well. I'm not saying we're learning "magic originally developed by the undead", particularly because logically the undead themselves are products of that magic.