Geomancer, Do you want it?

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I am also a huge fan of geomancer and would like to see this class introduced over any other. If they had done it in xi then I may have played it through all times (till today!).

I never played the geomancer in FFIII, however I did play geomancer in V and Tactics. I'd personally like to see it more like the tactics version. A class that you could use melee weapons with, but also cast spells. Though if they went with the bell and made it just a ranged caster, I could live with that just happy to play it.

I saw a few posts of different ideas as how it could work, and some people that can't grasp it. I like the idea of pulling elements from weather and from the area.

My idea as how it could work for drawing the element from the area is a little more random. A geomancer could go into an area (say a dungeon), this dungeon has stone, wood, and moss areas all over, so these would be the type of nature type elements the geo could draw from. So when the geomancer loads into the area, their "pull element" (or whatever you were calling it, I have a bad memory and I don't forum post enough to know how to qoute) list would then be filled with these 3 spells (spells based off of the 3 elements) so when they cast it, it would have a 33% (based on the fact there are 3 spells) to cast each one. That way you could make sense of how they could get the spells, the game wouldn't need to try and figure out which ground type you were standing closest too. Ya it's a little random but whatever, each type of elemental spell would also have a chance for status effect (again different for each element cast). So the idea (at least the way I look at it) is a dps class (not as powerful as focused dps classes) but more focused on debuffing enemies, and ultimately winning battles by making the enemy unable to properly perform.

I know a lot of people want Rdm, Nin, Sam, however this isn't XI, it doesn't have to follow the same steps, and as others have said, Geomancer is a class many seem to not know much about and maybe it would be much more popular if it was more well known.

I really like and tend to agree with your ideas. I just got home from work not long ago did a sketch. While sketching i was thinking along the lines of a more Final Fantasy Tactics based Geomancer with a sort of Native American style. Though they were barehanded in FFT, i was thinking of equipping them with a tomahawk or a rain stick (something tribal).

Please be gentle, i have not drawn anything for at least two years.