About Chemists and their potential use for FFXIV

[MomomiMomi]

I don't think they'd go with a Chemist job when there's already an Alchemist class in the game without some sort of really good explanation as to why an Alchemist can't just be a Chemist and vice versa.

No need, you just need the most basic of explanations: a chemist and an alchemist are not the same thing. At all.

A chemist is a physician, a medicus, a doctor. Their purpose is to treat the ill and wounded. An alchemist is someone who studies a sort of mix of science and philosophy, with a purpose of trying to find the secrets of the universe, including but not limited to finding the cure to everything, even death.

This is only confusing to some people because "alchemist" contains the word "chemist" in it. In japanese the names of the jobs aren't even remotely close. Alchemist is Renkinjutsushi, while Chemist is Kusurishi, which is just a way of saying "Doctor" or "Pharmacist." I'm pretty sure there would be no confusion at all to the Japanese players.

EDIT: Actually I guess it's also confusing because job names are all over the place. FFX-2 has the "Alchemist" job that functions like Chemist; in Japanese that job is literally just called "Item shooter." And we have FFT with a job called Chemist, which in Japanese was called "Item User."