New Healer Job Announced! Astrologist!

[Mimilu]

Heh, got two out of three. Surprised.

There goes our ideas, huh Duelle. >w>

[Elim]

It's time to D-D-D-D DUEL!

YU-GI-errr....Astrologist!

[Rhaja]

Well ****. I was all gungho on going DRK at launch and here they go and make this sexy healing class.

[RazeLandale]

I hope they keep 'astrologian'. Sounds very eorzean.

[OneWingedSora]

I think I know what my new main will be

[Kotemon]

The Globe is a deck of cards. No class, just a pure job. Healer-oriented.

Does that mean Astrologian is a type of Gypsy? I mean fortune telling does involve Astrology, Astromancy, Cartomancy (card reading), and Tarot (can be used in Cartomancy instead of playing cards), or even a crystal ball. So assuming Astrologist is using a deck of cards...


Fluid Aura into Protect.....

[Kuroyasha]

Exodia....Obliterate!!!!!

[whoopeeragon]

So...speculation on what each card represents?

I assume that the tarot card ability is a raid-wide/party-wide effect; celestial/star magic is commonly all-encomposing, so the concept of, say, 'divination' of the cards will probably be AoE.

Balance - recovers HP of party to an equal percentage (the concept of balancing - the colour of blood being red)
Ewer - removes all negative status ailments (Water is aligned with Esuna/Leech - blue for the element of water)
Bole - HP regen over time and vulnerability down (the trunk of a tree - tree of life etc. - brown for nature and wood)
Spear - increases physical melee attack potency (spears are melee weapons - light blue, of the Ice element, for which Halone governs)
Arrow - increases physical ranged attack potency (bows are ranged weapons - green associated with woods, typical of bow wielders -coughgridania-)
Spire - increases magical attack potency (most mages live in towers or 'spires' - the bearded man (common depiction of a wise magus) is also present - purple associated with BLMs and arcane)

The Astrologian video also shows her using a Water element spell with a cast time of 3 seconds. There are a lot of speculation points I can make about that one cast.
- The only healer/support skills with a 3 second cast are Protect and Stoneskin, which are both of the Earth element. But it is not a 'support'/'buff' skill as;
- The aura is a healing/purifying aura. Heals and Esuna/Leech have the aura shown in the video, whereas buffing spells such as Protect have orbs surrounding the caster.
- The only known/speculated water-aligned skills are Esuna, Leech, Raise, Resurrection, Embrace and Whispering Dawn. Four are support aligned spells, whereas two are direct healing spells. However;
- The moment of effect of the spell produces the same sound effect as Physick and Cure. Yes, the two have the same sound effect, with a different animation however. This spell of the Astrologians has an obvious different animation with the stars in the afterglow, kind of similar to Adloquium with the shield effect

My final verdict? It is a healing spell with an additional effect attached to it, which may differ depending on the tarot card. Or it is a straight additional effect such a regen, similar to 1.0's Sacrifice.

[Tinsley]

I'm ready...

[Kotemon]

I'm ready...

Fine.. We accept..