Geomancer

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character limit

I think they only use those three elements because at some point they were trying very hard to set Onymuji and Geomancer apart (I assume to parallel CNJ and THM). But at this point the line that separates the two seems to fluctuate. They could just have the two cannibalize eachother and just be one straight up eastern entity though and give it to the playerbase. My personal hope is that whatever the playstyle ends up being, I really hope through the use of certain spells/oGCDs they end up able to place fields at their feet that end up having different effects. This way we would still get the feel of terrain manipulation but don't have to place targeted aoe's. (since they seem to not want dps to use those, thank god). And from what they have shown us of the class so far, they aren’t interested in the “all elements” theme. They seem pretty honed in on the name of the class and went full on Feng Shui.

As for the Geo and Ast thing I was commenting on how you said SE was shoehorning Geo into Ast, which I didn't really see. But I do think they probably saw player feedback and really tried to separate the two!

Earthly Star is by no means the first targeted ground ability in the game. I think the tooltip is even something to the effect of you are placing a celestial body on the ground. So while I agree that terrain has played a big role in Geo as a whole, I don't think the placing of Earthly Star was a branch out experiment into the class. Not when we have Asylum, Sacred Soil, HAD Shadowflare and I think Drk gets one as well. Ast just needed a placed aoe healer circle to match the other two healers.