Gunner Image Hint at PT Role

[Duelle]

Of course Yoshida cares not for how jobs normally were designed (and sorry haters, designs go back past FFXI) but a gunner that's a healer? It does indeed mean it will be shoddy DPS as it needs to be able to properly heal, meaning most of its skills are heal based rather than damage based.

Gun as the way of doing DPS (the way you'd expect a WHM to use Stone/Aero or a SCH to stack dots on the mob), potion-related abilities to act as heals. It's not as outlandish as you're making it out to be. The only real question is whether it'll start off with a DPS-focused class and then get a healer job crystal (like my Musketeer => Chemist suggestion) or whether it would be built as a healer from the ground up.

Here's a picture I found relevant to this concept. Here's another one. And, of course, everyone's favorite.