Geomancer

[MirronTulaxia]

To be fair Mirron, most people agree with your point that yes, they have left room for it to be a healer if they wanted to go that route.

Most people arguments with you have been about you thinking they don’t care about their own franchise class fantasy when it comes to classes. And your comments on the lore team just using resources just because, as if the teams don’t have any interaction with eachother and just toss out their work and say “here you go” when there is open communication the whole time.

So yes we all know and agree it “could” be a healer. We just don’t think it would be a good idea based on what they have presented. And there are much better fits for the role.

1. I certainly don't get the feeling that they agree with that concept. I'm fairly sure you yourself have said things along the lines of it not working as a healer and it can only be a Caster. I could go digging through your posts if you'd like and find all instances of that.

2a. With regards to "not caring about class fantasy", my argument is again that it's purely subjective, and ultimately something made up as a term here, specifically. We have no idea how exactly the dev team feels about jobs. I would argue that at least in terms of how much they care about it being similar to past games they'll bend things so it fits the game rather than care too much about how well it fits the fantasy. I can point to multiple jobs like that.

2b. My point with the lore team is that we already know that the lore team doesn't take precedence when it comes to these things. The developers come up with an idea they like, and then the lore team figures out how to make it happen. Coupled with that, again, is the fact that none of the things you've said indicate Geomancers are Casters in terms of lore read that way to me. Boss characters almost never do healing as a focus. Enemy mobs only really have dedicated healers if they're basically other Spoken. Kyokuho could fix the barrier because the guy is worse at being a Geomancer than his grandfather was. And the fact that the one actual Geomancer we have is using a fraction of the knowledge really says they could introduce a new Geomancer and explain any lore confusion if it differs from him (given he has all of three spells not exactly hard to just fit those in though either) by saying "well he only knew a bit about being a Geomancer and you have a fancy new soul stone".

3. And I don't agree. To me, again, saying Geomancers are so similar to White Mages that they have to be another job is, if we're going to talk about job fantasy, a travesty. No job should be so similar in terms of job fantasy that you can mistake it for another unless it's something like White Mage to Devout, and even then there is an FF where they managed to make the two different in notable ways. Geomancer is not a direct upgrade to White Mage, or vice verse, they have no direct connection. So the job fantasy for them is entirely different, and that isn't dependent on the role, the weapon, or the elements.

To: Eric

Beyond wanting it to have something to do with terrain I'm not sure I have any strong preferences for anything with Geomancer. My point has never been "I want Geomancer to be a healer" but again "it's not unreasonable for Geomancer to be a healer". In terms of possible jobs I consider it better than the current popular proposal for Healer but that's really about the extent of my feelings n the matter.