Why does everyone want Chemist as a new job?

[Enla]

I don’t think Oracle or Geomancer have ever been a healer in a single Final Fantasy game though. With the caster gear from the Ivalice raids even being the Oracle’s gear from tactics in look and name.

I never played some of the tactics knock offs but isn’t Devout just Whm+?

I think the only option we have left that isn’t “actually a caster” or just steps all over the toes thematically in the role is Chemist.

Also I wouldn’t count on the “lore overlap” of Geomancer and Astrologian because the only thing they have in common is drawing power from a “star”. Levava herself even refers to the classes as a foil to one another.

Oracle was a mixed healing and damage job in FFV actually. And Geomancer was part healer/support in FFXI.
And yes Devout is basically just better WHM, which is why I mentioned the overlap between existing classes. Really that list is just mentioning all the jobs that could fit the new healer, while fully acknowledging that only two would really work.