Yoshi-P: "If you want more engaging content, go play Ultimate"

[Supersnow845]

One thing that I don’t think gets bought up enough with healers amongst the other 10,000 issues they have is that the modern healers don’t feel like classes a WOL would use

Can any of us legit imagine meteor in the wedding cake gown AF gear throwing out UWU lily spells. We don’t even feel like WOL’s we feel like the actual WOL’s UWU cheer squad here to remind them of the power of friendship in their darkest hour

How is it in a game that goes to such lengths to characterise what the WOL is they just utterly fail to make all classes feel like classes the WOL would actually play

[ty_taurus]

One thing that I don’t think gets bought up enough with healers amongst the other 10,000 issues they have is that the modern healers don’t feel like classes a WOL would use

Can any of us legit imagine meteor in the wedding cake gown AF gear throwing out UWU lily spells. We don’t even feel like WOL’s we feel like the actual WOL’s UWU cheer squad here to remind them of the power of friendship in their darkest hour

How is it in a game that goes to such lengths to characterise what the WOL is they just utterly fail to make all classes feel like classes the WOL would actually play

It really isn't hard to make a more masculine/gender neutral healer artifact set. This is just a recoloring of Robin in Super Smash Bros, but case-and-point:


I could absolutely see Meteor in something like that and it not look out-of-place. Like, this example isn't even all that detailed. And for magic, he doesn't need to be spinning around and doing angelic poses to cast spells. And not every depiction of magic needs to be directly representative of something in-game. Potentially having a moment where he calls down a judgement ray can look very powerful and not all that feminine. The only thing I think would be Afflatus Misery would probably want to be represented since it's sort of the heart of White Mage's style, but you could have it not be used in battle even. Maybe you could have a scene invovling purifying land in some way, if that ends up being a part of that expansions story, where Afflatus Misery is used to purge some sort of pollution or corruption off something like a tree or whatnot that's relevant to the plot, and then pan over to show Meteor in a more adventure-inspired White Mage look.

The funny thing is none of this really requires a difficult amount of creativity or out of the box thinking, but just requires the team to see White Mage or healers in general as anything other than dainty ballgown damsels in distress that clench their eyes and yell "YAMETE!" every time they need to cast a DPS spell.

[ASkellington]

It really isn't hard to make a more masculine/gender neutral healer artifact set.

Its not as if they don't know how.

AST is a perfect example until Shb:

HW



SB



Hell even SCH looks fairly gender neutral if you replace all of the skirts on female with pants.

They just see healer as the stereotypical women's role and thus design it that way.

...Y'know DESPITE how CNJ's mentor is male (E-Sumi Yan).

Or SCH's (both Alka Zolka and Suito Curito).

Or even AST's (Jannequinard and Kyokuho).

[ty_taurus]

...Y'know DESPITE how CNJ's mentor is male (E-Sumi Yan).

Or SCH's (both Alka Zolka and Suito Curito).

Or even AST's (Jannequinard and Kyokuho).

Or how the only scions that heal are men: Alphinaud, Urianger, and G'raha. After seeing the DPS side, Y'shtola only agrees to heal if there are literally no other candidates who can. And does so by performing her Sorceress/Black Mage rotation anyway.

[ASkellington]

Or how the only scions that heal are men: Alphinaud, Urianger, and G'raha. After seeing the DPS side, Y'shtola only agrees to heal if there are literally no other candidates who can. And does so by performing her Sorceress/Black Mage rotation anyway.

Yeah I don't get it. I don't have an issue with it since my WoL is supposed to be a more effeminate man... but he's still A MAN. I have the option to slap on a robe and call it a dress (with some exceptions that I want but aren't gonna happen because of aformentioned gender differences in gear). I'd like for others who want more masculine healer clothing to have their options to.


...SO YoshiP allow us to glam regardless of class when?

[HappyHubris]

One thing that I don’t think gets bought up enough with healers amongst the other 10,000 issues they have is that the modern healers don’t feel like classes a WOL would use

Can any of us legit imagine meteor in the wedding cake gown AF gear throwing out UWU lily spells. We don’t even feel like WOL’s we feel like the actual WOL’s UWU cheer squad here to remind them of the power of friendship in their darkest hour

How is it in a game that goes to such lengths to characterise what the WOL is they just utterly fail to make all classes feel like classes the WOL would actually play

Honestly, my WHM feels like a WoL - impressive casting animations. It's just that there aren't enough attacks to really feel like someone who would dominate a battlefield.