Would you rather healers get more complex healing kits or more complex DPS kits?

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Louisoux has probably looked the most impressive in the cgi scenes, but even he stopped being a caster and ended up punching the dragon in the full coil rendition.

Besides that, paladin and dark knight both are magic users, even if caster stretches it somewhat. It is pretty telling that their magic aspects (lights inside worm, cutting the forgiven whatsit in half) are more being used as a way to hype up a delayed full reveal of the poster boy rather than as a flashy fighting technique.

I don’t think it should be impossible to have a caster or even healer as the poster job, but it would be a struggle to overcome the disadvantages of demographic targeting, typical lack of dynamic combat and fitting the generally heroic aesthetic they’re using for him. DT was a good opportunity to have turtlemancer as the poster job and viper the secondary, to emphasise it being a new start and broadly lower stakes but that’s a bit meta possibly.
I would probably enjoy watching the poster guy cackling and dropping an ungodly pyrotechnics display on something, but I can’t really imagine it being that exciting to watch the character without gratuitous use of between the lines and aetherial manipulation. Healing on the other hand would be possibly a bit gory to have in any exciting capacity, although that wow one where the dude brings the guys back would be a good base, if less impressive given the smaller scale of ff14 raids. Maybe put an alliance raid in the trailer and have healer lb3s hit the other parties as an expansion feature? I don’t think the healer aesthetics play well for this - white mage is kind of out because it always has to look like a white mage, sage is taken, scholar has faeries and skirts which probably would look a bit odd on the poster guy and ast is also taken and doesn’t have particularly dynamic outfits either. Warrior is probably as near as we’re going to get.