Quote Originally Posted by Fukuro View Post
It feels like healers in general have lost a lot of identity compared to other jobs. Scholar (Dot/dps healer) lost its identity to Summoner, to differentiate the two and to make them feel like 2 completely different jobs. White mage lost all of its druid theme and is now basically a Lilly/light themed job - which for me at least was such a drastic change aesthetically that I can‘t identify myself with anymore.
Astrologian lost all the skills that made it cool to begin with, like different cards giving different buffs and also the time magic to extend buffs, which made it engaging and you had at least another useful skill to use…
Oh believe me, I hate the whole Holy Magic Aesthetic WHM has now. I understood Holy since that's the signature WHM spell but why strip it of its Elemental Roots in ShB just to give it a skill like Aqua Veil in EW, especially since the Water Magic Aspect of WHM was always the least explored aspect of the job that we'd been asking for years to be expanded upon. They remove Fluid Aura after YEARS of killing it slowly and then decide, "here's a water barrier".
Not only that but they went hard on the whole Lily theme as well. Holy looks like a Flower Blooming and Lilybell is literally a plant.

They obviously can't commit to what aesthetic they want for Healers, with the lone exception being that Healers just have to be in a Dress/Robe of some kind. I would kill for some Chainmail Armor that doesn't end in a Skirt tyvm.