I don't want the devs to give up on Chemist

[Bright-Flower]

In theory a sciency healer job would be neat but I don't expect it to happen. They're still going to use mp, still going to have cast bars, still going to be disciple of magic. For better or worse the game has certain boxes in its design they're not likely to step outside of.

I'll honestly be surprised if we even get a fifth healer at all, at least before like 10.0. I don't think two jobs per expansion is something that's going to continue to happen every time in general.

I've said this in several threads before, so apologies if you've seen this:

The patch around the Heroes' Gauntlet also included several quests in the Crystalarium.

In there, the bosses added were specifically "Berserker", "Thief" and "Necromancer". The quests in town included a girl who wanted to become a sort of combat "Chemist/Churgeon" (Sorry, I forget which was specifically named).

I'm of the belief these were specifically to say these will not be added in as player jobs despite players constantly wanting them. As in, Yoshi-P can joke "Players requested we add Thief to the game, so we did!"

I don't think it was as Meta as that, just them having fun making alternate sorts of WOLs from other shards to have us fight, things that werne't one to one to in game jobs.

For the 'chemist' angle I never got why people thought that was hinting at a job, especially when we were wrapping things up on the first and new jobs aren't likely to be tied to the First going forward.

[Cidel]

For the 'chemist' angle I never got why people thought that was hinting at a job, especially when we were wrapping things up on the first and new jobs aren't likely to be tied to the First going forward.

People here like to latch on to the smallest of details and make leaps of logic to guess the next jobs coming in the upcoming expansions.

I remember people seeing Lyse in her red Ala mighan dress in SB's cinematic trailer and were entirely convinced "Dancer Confirmed! Look!! Dancer! Next Melee DPS!!!" I think someone here did the HW's Manderville quest and took the crude drawing of the mammet in blue and was like "Blue mage!" (ironically, we did get Blue mage, but they were right for the wrong reasons and at a much later date). Astrologian loses "time-based" abilities and people see that as a potential for opening up a spot for Timemage. Whitemage phases-out earth and wind in their spell kit and some people see that as a potential opening for Geomancer. So naturally, near the end of ShB, people see an NPC talking about a field medic on the battlefield healing with conventional medicine and immediately start saying its really a hint to Chemist; but to be fair, that's one of the least absurd leaps of logic in terms of new job speculation around here.

[kaynide]

I don't think it was as Meta as that, just them having fun making alternate sorts of WOLs from other shards to have us fight, things that werne't one to one to in game jobs.

I mean, there was a time when the players asked "Please make Atmas easier to find! (as in easier to obtain) and the Devs said "Sure OK! We'll make them easier to find!" (and made the atmas different colors so they were "easier to locate in your inventory")