New Healer Request Next Expansion

[Rika007]

I'm going to throw a wild option out of left field and say I would love to see the Psychic Dress Sphere from FFX2 turned into a healer in XIV. I always loved it's aesthetic and style, and it's playstyle in X-2 was all about protecting against elemental damage, so it's wide open on what it could actually be made into in a hypothetical XIV option. It's teleportation abilities would provide the healer role with a much needed mobility option, and it's nul and eater spells would be fun to represent a new way of healing by choosing the correct spell to 'eat' damage and convert it into HP. But more importantly it would be a job that based on it's aesthetic would provide some much needed hype to the role. With Dancer having gone to Ranged DPS, we've pretty much ran out of all the most iconic FF job's that have that certain 'cool' factor that get many players super excited to try out something new. I feel like instead of going with another robed, sparkle mage healer, the next one should be one that shift's the paradigm a bit.

Admittedly I know a Psychic has almost 0% chance of ever happening in this game, but the idea remains. A chemist could be cool but again I would want to see it really have an aesthetic counter to the current healers. A chemist I could see having a very battlefield, gunbreaker styled modern look, using a healing dart gun and actually walking around in Armor instead of robes. I feel healing need's this as a foil to the look of all it's current jobs.

[Archwizard]

I'm going to throw a wild option out of left field and say I would love to see the Psychic Dress Sphere from FFX2 turned into a healer in XIV.

I love left field ideas like this, not just 'cuz they're unexpected, but because the people who pose them tend to put a greater deal of thought into their reasoning than people whose suggestions just rely on buzzwords.

My main concern, however, is that aside from "Magic" and "Physical" damage in a broad sense, elemental typings don't really matter to damage. It honestly wouldn't surprise me if most bosses today simply default to Unaspected damage for magic, barring obvious elemental themes. So you end up with a heavy, heavy imbalance with Psychic's "spell eating" ability, since having specific elemental effects would be basically pointless most of the time and even potentially crippling based on the healer's encyclopedic knowledge of the exceptions to what is or isn't Elemental/Magic/Physical damage.