Why does everyone want Chemist as a new job?

[Shougun]

On the one hand we haven't gotten that highly coveted XIV-original job yet, so there is a chance that the devs would make a new healer whole cloth.

OTOH that we're 3 expansions without said job already implies the devs perchance to borrow from older games instead,making Chemist more likely.

BTW why do people want/expect a completely original job anyway?

Wasn't gunbreaker supposed to be that? I guess a bit like AST?

Or no? If no then I'm actually suddenly more excited because that's interesting lol, but I was under the assumption GNB was the original job. Not a negative comment towards GNB, just kind of perked ears if they're still working on some truely 100% original concept, which to be honest sounds quite hard since they've so much you could reference it to, but yee.. .

Original is interesting since it doesn't have a strict form and so they have more freedom, of course if they don't take advantage of that then it could be not that exciting that it's original, but if they do then it can be quite interesting to watch something original grow.

Like with White Mage or Black Mage you already have a strong idea how it'll grow, that doesn't mean it's not interesting just that you know what it's peak looks like for the most part and that they've so much to reference (and fans want quite a bit of references) that you can even semi-guess any new things to happen.

So for me an original FF might just be Vincent and Tera Bradford transformation concept turned into a job, but someone might just say that's not original because it references something. So again, was GNB not the original? Because I thought it was :3...

I edited my post to refer to those jobs as I think they might be discounted as while they aren't based on a Job per se they still take a lot influence form prior entire (8 for GNB, Tactics for AST)

Oh okay, gotcha