Healer Job Concept: Exorcist

[Billythepancake]

While issues are there, I do want more Jobs in the game and more variety with healers since the AST lost half of their buff mechanic due to players only trying to only roll Balance and SCH is kind of struggling to do any of the heavy lifting that AST or WHM can do.

I think I'd be a lot more open to a 4th healer if the problems for current healers wasn't "strip them down of everything that made me them fun and unique". If it were just balance issues, that's whatever, you can never achieve perfect balance, so as long as the numbers are close enough, then I can live with it. I'm scared that a 4th healer will either come out and be just as bad as the current 3 "spam 1, MAYBE 2, buttons, then some times someone gets an ouchie so you kiss it better then back to spamming" or they make a healer that actually works in that system,and actually has something to do in downtime that doesnt cause carpal tunnel, but at the expense of the other 3 healers. I would love for SE to prove me wrong and do both, make the current 3 healers amazing and fun to play while also giving us a 4th healer who does the same. But this expac has made me lose all faith that SE know what they're doing with healers. If it weren't for the Savage/ultimate scene and my FC, I'd have unsubbed and found another game to give my attention.

[FusionFool3]

I think I'd be a lot more open to a 4th healer if the problems for current healers wasn't "strip them down of everything that made me them fun and unique". If it were just balance issues, that's whatever, you can never achieve perfect balance, so as long as the numbers are close enough, then I can live with it. I'm scared that a 4th healer will either come out and be just as bad as the current 3 "spam 1, MAYBE 2, buttons, then some times someone gets an ouchie so you kiss it better then back to spamming" or they make a healer that actually works in that system,and actually has something to do in downtime that doesnt cause carpal tunnel, but at the expense of the other 3 healers. I would love for SE to prove me wrong and do both, make the current 3 healers amazing and fun to play while also giving us a 4th healer who does the same. But this expac has made me lose all faith that SE know what they're doing with healers. If it weren't for the Savage/ultimate scene and my FC, I'd have unsubbed and found another game to give my attention.

That's unfortunate and kinda right. I used to main SCH back in Stormblood and the Job feels a little alien and weak compared to White Mage and I feel lost whenever I play AST, but that might just be because I'm paying too much attention to drawing cards then DPSing or Healing. I now spend my days either Tanking as a DRK or healing as a WHM

[Sloprano]

That's unfortunate and kinda right. I used to main SCH back in Stormblood and the Job feels a little alien and weak compared to White Mage and I feel lost whenever I play AST, but that might just be because I'm paying too much attention to drawing cards then DPSing or Healing. I now spend my days either Tanking as a DRK or healing as a WHM

Coming straight from Blasphemous it sounds like you've had a lot of fun coming up with the names and effects for these skills. Wielding axe and powers of accumulated stress and release, or taking on other peopls sin and demons and exorcising them in a torrent of force, or simply chopping them up. Something I'd definitly like to try. Specially if it's melee-focused, but with twists to keep moving in and out.

As you say, SCH feels alien and each last two expansion just made other jobs and games feel more fun by proxy. A new healer would be great, but currently carrying impressions the developers handling of healers is a direction I can't say I endorse. Where they only view offense and indirect support options as embryonic or unnecessary for the few fights they test them in and only see need for more free healing.