Quote Originally Posted by Seraphor View Post
It's still a caster.
You're using your aether to imbue potions with magic, you're just casting the spell on the potion rather than the characters.




I wouldn't expect it to have ranged autoattacks.
This Chemist doesn't have a gun in the common sense, it has a mortar cannon, basically a grenade launcher. You don't autoattack with grenades.
It would have melee autoattacks like any other caster. Which is no more silly than a SCH whacking something with it's book.

The point of it being mechanically oriented rather than wooden staves and flowing robes is simply aesthetic, to add a healer with a different style.
I mean, of the three healers only one of them uses wooden staves. The other two jobs don't use staves, or even weapons crafted by Carpenters for the most part (I won't rule out there may be a couple Carpenter options in either of them but mostly they're Alchemist/Goldsmith if I recall right). As for robes, I wouldn't really call Scholar AF gear "robes" for the most part. And in terms of AF stuff, don't forget https://vignette.wikia.nocookie.net/...20120718053437 and https://vignette.wikia.nocookie.net/...20061220224652 are Chemists, so in terms of "robes" they could very well have that (https://vignette.wikia.nocookie.net/...20141225102252 is also very much like current Scholar and is the most recent example of the job, so if Scholar is robes then that is as well). In terms of shared Healer gear that wouldn't change any.