Thread: What Tank & Healer Class would you like to see added in Expansion 3.0?

There is no such thing as a true ranged tank. A boss can be tanked from range, but that's on the boss's mechanics, not player's. You can use ranged abilities while tanking in melee, but at that point, you're just tanking a boss.

I want Dancer as the new Healer job, and to distinguish it from WHM/SCH I'd like it to be debuff-based.
Currently, WHM is the classic healer that produces gigantic green numbers with great efficiency.
SCH is fascinating; the only pet-based healing class I'm aware of, where the pet does a large portion of the actual healing and the character focuses on shields to cushion incoming damage.
The next step IMO is a healer that of course has curative abilities but focuses extensively on reducing the actual damage output of a target. Short-duration, weak, spammable, stacking STR/INT debuffs; (that must stack with Rage of Halone, Dragon Kick, Virus, etc to not neuter any of the other classes involved) cooldowns that convert these debuffs into other effects such as an AOE heal or a temporary, much stronger damage reduction debuff.

They could really just bring the originally-released FFXI Dancer back and update it for XIV, changing Steps from defense-decreasing to offense-decreasing. Sambas are neat, Steps are cool, etc.
TP as a resource is interesting but probably wouldn't work; they'd either need their own TP-regeneration mechanic (which would end up looking a hell of a lot like Aetherflow) or have to have LNC as a subclass, which is both very limiting for healing and nonsensical thematically.

Alternatively Time Mage would be a good other option for a debuff-heavy healer: rather than STR reduction, Time Mages classically have tons of slowing effects, they could use Haste/ga as a cooldown to offer DPS, etc.
Time Mage basic heal would be interesting to see as not something potency-based, but precast heavy: "reverse time, healing X% (70? 80?) of of damage received by the target within the last 2 seconds" This + a Regen effect (Time Mages classically have had access to Regen, but they already gave that exact spell to WHM, so they'd call it something else) could keep tanks alive easily, and with access to another low-cooldown flat heal (10, 15s CD) can top them off before big hits.

Tank: Samurai
Healer: Dancer
Keeping it simplistic.

Hell if they want to get creative with a healer I think Chemist would be a great idea. All sorts of avenues you could take with abillities on that front.