Why does everyone want Chemist as a new job?

[Rai_Takara]

People need to remember that Chemist could also end up as a Ranged DPS and not assume it's a healer. Same thing happened with dancer and look what happened.

Personally, I'm unsure if Chemist will come. Sure in HW it was thought of as a potential item healer but then AST won out, but similarly it's possible that the way Chemist is envisioned by the devs will not be possible in this game as is. It might end up as a limited job like BLU.

Also want to make sure people do understand that if somehow Chemist does arrive as a healer, it won't be any different than the other healers like other people have mentioned. It never will be after the homogenization that was, rightfully, necessary to further add healing and tanking jobs.

[Shougun]

People need to remember that Chemist could also end up as a Ranged DPS and not assume it's a healer. Same thing happened with dancer and look what happened.

Personally, I'm unsure if Chemist will come. Sure in HW it was thought of as a potential item healer but then AST won out, but similarly it's possible that the way Chemist is envisioned by the devs will not be possible in this game as is. It might end up as a limited job like BLU.

Also want to make sure people do understand that if somehow Chemist does arrive as a healer, it won't be any different than the other healers like other people have mentioned. It never will be after the homogenization that was, rightfully, necessary to further add healing and tanking jobs.

Technically we've had a number of jobs teased (not excluding other expansions), some equally to Chemist in terms of teasing level, some way less so but still exist, so I wouldn't bet significant matters on Chemist but I think it's one of the entirely likely options.

That said now that I've spoken that it might mean they'll not do it lol- it appears to me Yoshida doesn't like being too determine-able or having to do something simply because people said it has to be done (partly my observation, partly using his own words on a few different occasions- like that he said he's a contrarian, not that he will always go against something but saying he has to do something makes him sometimes think the opposite, or that while he understands consistency is good he also struggles with it because it can then mean it might get boring, not sure I'd say 'trickster' but maybe 'boxer'?).

Just means to me Chemist, and Geomancer I think, would both be pretty safe bets given all the things going on, but really anything is possible given our long history of hints and I think also the growing flexibility the team is showing (like our recent stories exampling some what dark / questionable concepts, without turning us into a super villain at least lol- one of the biggest hurdles for a dark job would be if the team showed they were unwillingly to make a situation where you wield something wild and ride out the situation as best you could, in the Dark Knight quest line and in ShB they showed they were willing to do that so most doors are open at this point given someone willing to write in enough compelling details (which funnily enough is from the same person <3).

What I think would be wild is if Chemist becomes limited and we get some other jobs instead that no one expected lol, I would have my "oh wot" face on XD. Huge wot face is nothing is healer( O_O @_@ ). Potentially hyper excited if it was a dark and or transformation job though, do my little tippy tap dance or something lol.