Can Healer Balance Survive a 4th Healer?

[Anhra]

The whole purpose of a Healer, is TO BE unbalanced. It is a Specialist role with the main Focus of providing healing and utility/support while dishing out damage/using debuffs on the side when things are going smooth. Balancing a Healer would mean turning it into Red Mage minus the Melee abilities, for that Job, is the embodiment of Balance, a Jack of all trades, but master of none.

As i mentioned before on another thread already, Squeenix will just copypaste their WHM formula on any Healer that's being added and call it a day, in the most likely scenario.

[Absurdity]

As i mentioned before on another thread already, Squeenix will just copypaste their WHM formula on any Healer that's being added and call it a day, in the most likely scenario.

The pessimistic outlook, which I unfortunately share for now, would be exactly that.
A 4th healer wouldn't destroy the balance in this scenario because it would be designed like all the current ones. 1 DoT, 1 dps spell that you spam, maybe a nuke, the usual single target and party GCD heals, a boatload of strong oGCDs, mostly direct or regen healing, most likely some shields to make up for WHM's lack of it and some gimmick mechanic that has barely any impact to make it easy to balance.

[NYCLouisGamer]

The pessimistic outlook, which I unfortunately share for now, would be exactly that.
A 4th healer wouldn't destroy the balance in this scenario because it would be designed like all the current ones. 1 DoT, 1 dps spell that you spam, maybe a nuke, the usual single target and party GCD heals, a boatload of strong oGCDs, mostly direct or regen healing, most likely some shields to make up for WHM's lack of it and some gimmick mechanic that has barely any impact to make it easy to balance.

I just had a flashback. I dreamed about FFXIV this week! I was a Healer & I kept getting DPS procs while I played. It felt wonderful.