Why does everyone want Chemist as a new job?

[lolicon09]

It could be interesting, especially if they make something like Ninja Mudras where the potion you'll throw to your party member's head depends on which things you added to the mix, which could also be a nice way to get back what was taken from Astrologian; potions to heal, to buff certain stats, to increase mitigation. Since the risk of making a wrong mix will always be there, it could be the perfect justification to make it the only healer with an always ready res (since that will also be one of the posible mixes)

[lolicon09]

And then there is the Shadowbriger PVP gear, like seriously Mass Effect anyone?

[Bright-Flower]

People want a healer that doensnt have cast bars.
So they think if they ask for DNC/CHM healers, they wouldnt get cast bars.
(And little do they realize, if DNC was going to be a healer, it would have had a "Dance" bar, and CHM will have a "Mixing" bar. Both of which require standing still, and both are effected by swift cast.)

Just accept the fact we're just getting a reskinned WHM.

Yeah, a dancer healer would just have a dancing animation while casting heals instead of just holding a stick up. Maybe it would be a bit more mobile than other healers, but it would still operate with the same framework and basic parameters, with a couple of job specific mechanics tossed in like cards/lillies/fairy etc, but ultimately I don't think we're going to ever get an 'outside the box' tank or healer in this game.

[Bright-Flower]

To be fair, this set was based off of a contest winner, but yeah does remind me of MGR a bit lol.

[Limonia]

I'd only accept Chemist if it heals with potions and attacks with bombs or things like that. xD
But if we get syringes, pills and bandages I will not use it after leveling it. Alchemy is fine, because it has that aether/magical aspect to it, but medicine stuff just isn't to my taste at all in games.

[RyuDragnier]

Just accept the fact we're just getting a reskinned WHM.

Yes, because apparently a healer that has a fairy and specializes in shields and oGCDs through a limited resource and a healer who buffs through cards and specializes in fast casting and a versatile tool kit are the same as a burst healer who specializes in heavy healing and regens.

[Iscah]

Male healers look girly in robes

I honestly disagree.

My male healers do wear robes, at least some of the time, and it doesn't magically make them look feminine. Sure it depends on the individual design, but robes are historically male clothing as well and I have absolutely no impression of them looking "girly" just because they're wearing a robe and not a shirt.

If nothing else, surely the image of a wizard in robes is sufficiently established?

Red Mage, Scholar, and Gunbreaker would all like to know your location.

1. I did say most of the time.

2. We have plenty of ways around the exceptions, in both class-specific and all-class gear. GNB works well with gatherer sets, but I still like using armoured boots and gloves with it.

3.

This has been my alt's SCH outfit for ages and I never would have thought robes like this don't suit a scholar, even if it's nowhere near the relic designs.

I have an assortment of RDM glamours too but I don't have them linkable right now.

Robes are not my cup of tea or style, and I'd rather be a mage running around in very casual wear (like a t shirt and pants) which also fits a magic user as it's not heavy armor. I like when the game experiments with different styles of gear.

The thing with "very casual wear" is that we do have it in the game. It's all-class glamour gear and you're free to use it on whatever you want. A t-shirt and jeans wouldn't make sense as healer-specific gear, with or without chemist.

For me personally, most robes in game conceal the gorgeous attire the lies underneath it. I tend to look at robes as a 'lazy' glamour choice because there isn't much point looking for matching glamours with legs and feet (sometimes hands too) because the robe covers it all up.

Fair enough, and I've had similar thoughts on things - like the Mheg Deaca robe where everyone was showing it off and they're all looking the same because it covers everything - though I do think we get a lot of open-fronted things to work with. Even if it's just a slit, you still have to think about what's visible, and skirts usually flutter up when spellcasting.

umm...

Class Gear says you are wrong:

Again, I did say most of the time. And you can do creative things with all the jobs.

On the other hand if they're not doing anything special with role gear for the current "odd jobs" then I don't expect chemist would get a lot of attention either.

[Gothicshark]

Again, I did say most of the time. And you can do creative things with all the jobs.

On the other hand if they're not doing anything special with role gear for the current "odd jobs" then I don't expect chemist would get a lot of attention either.

Honestly, besides raid sets, and not even all of them, most gear and glamours I've seen fall into personal tastes and not this artificial idea of a look you seem to have.

here are a few examples of Glamours I use, in spoilers as the pictures can be large as they are unedited screens.

Black Mage


Red Mage


White Mage


Bunny Mage (my Au Ra)

[Morningstar1337]

Assuming this isn't a bait thread:

• People think that Chemist as a healer would lead to an aesthetic differentiation the gear going forward (they want less robes basically, and MCH does set a precedent of a combat class aesthetically taking after crafters/gatherers)
• They also want a healer that isn't magic based (kinda impossible with the way raid mechanics and gear works, but that is still a reason)
• The job had some piror incarnations with their own followings
• The use of potions as weapons has some precedents as combat weapons via the use of Molotov cocktails and poisons

As for other questions

• Like Geomancer and Magic Knight, there is some simulates with existing classes you noted which would be reudent...if they were in the same role as the simialr classes, this is impossible for Chemist because as a healer it would be a Discipline of Magic (even if people preferred War), not Hand or Land, so it wouden't be redundant. Where as the chance of redundancy still exists if GEO was a healer and MGK was a Caster DPS
• Theymight name it something else becuase of the ALC connection, like apothecary
• Acronyms would likely be CHM or APC deepening on the name used

[Mhaeric]

Riqi-Tio

This line specifically is what most makes me think that whole section was a teaser for a Chemist (or as they called it in game Apothecary) job in the next expansion.



At the very least, that line was a tongue-in-cheek reference to the years of posts by players asking for Chemist.