Can Healer Balance Survive a 4th Healer?

[Crushnight]

4th healer has to be the most simple and easy to pick up and learn healer. HAS TO. Why? Because it would start at lv70. SE would have to account for brand new players and players never touching the healer role before picking it up.

This means the 4th healer will have a boring incredibly simple gameplay style(for veterans who have played healers at all) for the 1st 10 levels. Once lv80 and above they may ramp up what it can do like they did with Gunbreaker(this really wasn't at all more complex than other tanks) or they could keep it the same path current healers are going down, which the devs have shown no signs of dropping the detrimental pure healing mentality (if it was a different designed game this wouldn't be so bad, but this is FFXIV and it is very bad to have this mentality).

4th healer won't break balance with current design, it can't or the developers are even more incompetent with designing healers, but how many of us truly want current design to stay as it is. No idea as a healer community we are so divided it is impossible to get an accurate picture.

6.0 regardless will be the devs putting their foot down on healer design, be it a reverse course or a continuation, healers will leave the role, hope the devs pick the choice they want that'll keep the most as possible.

If we get a healer for 6.0 their intro video will tell us everything about their design, if we see 1 nuke, 1 aoe and 1 DoT current design stays, if we see a slightly more damage focus(multiple DoTs, resources going to hitting the dummy enemy etc), older design has a chance.

[IDontPetLalas]

4th healer has to be the most simple and easy to pick up and learn healer. HAS TO. Why? Because it would start at lv70. SE would have to account for brand new players and players never touching the healer role before picking it up.

This means the 4th healer will have a boring incredibly simple gameplay style(for veterans who have played healers at all) for the 1st 10 levels. Once lv80 and above they may ramp up what it can do like they did with Gunbreaker(this really wasn't at all more complex than other tanks) or they could keep it the same path current healers are going down, which the devs have shown no signs of dropping the detrimental pure healing mentality (if it was a different designed game this wouldn't be so bad, but this is FFXIV and it is very bad to have this mentality).

4th healer won't break balance with current design, it can't or the developers are even more incompetent with designing healers, but how many of us truly want current design to stay as it is. No idea as a healer community we are so divided it is impossible to get an accurate picture.

6.0 regardless will be the devs putting their foot down on healer design, be it a reverse course or a continuation, healers will leave the role, hope the devs pick the choice they want that'll keep the most as possible.

If we get a healer for 6.0 their intro video will tell us everything about their design, if we see 1 nuke, 1 aoe and 1 DoT current design stays, if we see a slightly more damage focus(multiple DoTs, resources going to hitting the dummy enemy etc), older design has a chance.

Given that none of the current healers are incredibly complex, making any new healer more simple doesn't sound at all attractive. If that new healer did in fact start at level 70, then a brand new player wouldn't even be able to select it due to lack of MSQ progression, unless of course they purchased a jump. I don't see that as being a valid reason for over-simplifying a job.

IF a fourth healer gets added it would make more sense to add one that synergizes with the current healers, and at the same time that would be an opportunity to revisit the current healers.