About Chemists and their potential use for FFXIV

[Kaliesto]

So I'm looking at all these potions which some are not used anymore hardly like Blinding, silencing potions, etc.

Now Wouldn't be better if some of these potions became obsolete and turned into skills for a potential Chemist Job?

Now you're wondering whether it should be a DPS or Healer type, but why not both?

How is that going to work you may ask, well the solution is the Chemist can switch to DPS or Healer which will have their own separate skill sets.

Poison/Sleep/Blinding/Paralyze/Offensive Stat buffs+Strength+Dexterity+Intelligence can be regulated to Chemist-DPS Mode

While

Resistance/Healing/Ether Regeneration/Stat buffs+Mind+Vitality can be regulated to Chemist-Healer Mode

Chemist can be the first job to have a Dual Role Type that can be switched to fit the needs of the party.


I know the subject of Chemist was talked about before in the forums, but I was hoping there can be a renewed interest if we look at the job at different perspective by introducing a Dual-Role Job.

[Bright-Flower]

Dual role just isn't going to work in this game. Works in in WoW, but this game is really not designed to handle that and SE doesn't even want to do another sch/smn split. A full on dual role job, outside of limited jobs like blue mage as side content, just aren't going to happen.

A new job could bet debuffs themed after those old potions. But it wouldn't just be the actual effects of the old status potions. It would just be debuffs themed after them, but built to work with their current encounter designs.

[MomomiMomi]

There's pretty much zero chance they're going to give any status effects like blind and paralyze. They've been removing any form of those over the years, and any form that still exists (like sleep) has extremely limited situations in which it still works.

A dual role like you're talking about is probably never going to happen.

Also, Chemist as a healer is pretty much the most desired job at the moment.

[Enla]

Dual role just isn't going to work in this game. Works in in WoW, but this game is really not designed to handle that and SE doesn't even want to do another sch/smn split. A full on dual role job, outside of limited jobs like blue mage as side content, just aren't going to happen.

A new job could bet debuffs themed after those old potions. But it wouldn't just be the actual effects of the old status potions. It would just be debuffs themed after them, but built to work with their current encounter designs.

Essentially this. The way they designed Arcanist was so bad that the only way they could potentially justify a split class again is to have the class split at Lv. 5 and under. Anything higher than that causes serious balancing issues that both SMN and SCH are still suffering from to this day. They're never going to make another split class sadly. No matter how nice it might be if they could actually implement it properly.

Also, Chemist as a healer is pretty much the most desired job at the moment.

And I do think that healer mains will stage a full on riot if it's turned into a DPS class at this point.

[Zanarkand-Ronso]

We already have a Dual Role job, Arcanist.
But that class is why we will never get another one, balancing it according to Yoshi has been very difficult. Highly doubt they will do another job that will cause that much issue.

And where ya been dog? Chemist has been talked about nermerous times, npt like interest died. There have been plenty of threads talking about the next jobs to be added. And lots have said Chemist Healer.

[AnonymousBard]

I would love an Alchemist Combat class as I'm super into mixing magic and physical combat. You ever seen the Alchemist class from Dragons Dogma Online? Pretty much my ideal combat chemist.

[Connor]

Chemist would be an amazing addition to the game and I think it’d be interesting to see how they translate item usage and things like Mix into an ffxiv job.

That said, personally I’d prefer for Chemist to be a standard mage / healer type job than a physical one. Maybe like, charging a flask with aether to make it heal or damage things, or having some kind of magic bag that automatically converts aether into a usable potion (though that would be pretty bizarre lol).

Chemist’s traditional abilities could have their effects adjusted to fit ffxiv while still making sense name-wise. Maybe like a Poison Flask just inflicts a special DoT rather than a universal ‘poison’, Blind Flask could reduce enemy damage and Paralyze Flask could stun the enemy.

As others have said dual role jobs unfortunately won’t ever work as standard ‘jobs’. Whilst it could be possible as a limited job, I’d prefer for it to be a normal one personally lol

[MikkoAkure]

I had thought I heard they attempted a gun-toting chemist healer for HW, but they couldn't figure out how to balance it so the mechanics were wrapped into a new job (AST) instead. If AST does part of what chemist was supposed to do, then I guess we'll never see it.

[LolitaBansheeMeru]

Why is chemist even cared about I mean really they are purely useless after you get like 5 abilitys and unlock black and white mage. beside we got a potion master in the game already but its in the crafters side. Just how I view it we don't really need it as we got alchemist for those who want to be that chemist ... just like we don't need any more swords. We really need the things we are completely missing or lacking in all aspects.

[Bright-Flower]

Why is chemist even cared about I mean really they are purely useless after you get like 5 abilitys and unlock black and white mage. beside we got a potion master in the game already but its in the crafters side.

I think part of it is 'we want a new healer, what's a classic FF job that could work as a healer?' But maybe I'm wrong and more people are excited for the idea of chemist outside of that context.