We Need a Dark Healer Class!

[Brightshadow]

I always thought of SCH as the "dark" healer. Just look at their DPS skills. Bio and Bio II which are poisons, Miasma and Miasma II which are both based on choking darkness, Shadowflare, Ruin and Ruin II, Energy Drain, Virus. Their heals are kind of philosophy/science based as well: Physick, Adloquium, Succor, Lustrate, Indominability... The only things that really dispel the dark/anti-holy theme are the fairies and Sacred Soil.

Yes the fairies scream dark healer lol.

[Rennies]

http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/TheFairFolk

[KerrichWard]

I've kinda seen the ast as a dark healer....their signature color is black and they don't really use sacred or holy magic to heal, they use forbidden magic and tarot cards to heal, not to mention with their spells like malific and gravity, they are basically warping the fabric of space and time to heal.

[Cleftobismal]

I've kinda seen the ast as a dark healer....their signature color is black and they don't really use sacred or holy magic to heal, they use forbidden magic and tarot cards to heal, not to mention with their spells like malific and gravity, they are basically warping the fabric of space and time to heal.

What lore in the game says AST is forbidden magicks besides the Ishgardians always saying anything outside of their belief is a forbidden magick? AST magick = Relies on the celestial bodies which are in space. /o/ If anything, dressing up like a stereotypical witch is far from being dark.

[Reinha]

Yes to dark healer! Their mechanic could be something like blood magic, lifesteal, necromancy, insanity or unstable alchemy. Sacrifice the HP of the entire group to give buffs, convert own HP to MP, give self a short debuff to do a big heal, equalize the HP bars of all nearby allies, summon temporary creatures to suck the life out of, surrender to madness (sorry for the reference) and increase healing for a short time while draining your own MP, or throw an aoe potion that gives random players the side effect of a dot whilst buffing/healing everyone.

[Miyha]

A dark healer class would be nice and all, but I'm also in favor of simply having darker outfits for healers. Kind of depressing that almost every outfit that comes out for healers is light colored when your personal aesthetic is darker... (I'm looking at you, 24man raids.)

[Rennies]

A dark healer class would be nice and all, but I'm also in favor of simply having darker outfits for healers. Kind of depressing that almost every outfit that comes out for healers is light colored when your personal aesthetic is darker... (I'm looking at you, 24man raids.)

We could fix this by being allowed to dye all parts of a gearpiece no matter what it is.

[DamianFatale]

Vampire needs to happen.

[Gemina]

I already consider SCH to be a dark healer. At least my SCH is anyway

However, I do like the idea of draining the health of your foes to heal your allies. Just not quite sure how that would fit in this game when in the hands of players.

[gumas]

Dark healer can use different lore, for them healing using hp is the "proper" way to do so, just stating that very rule in their lore already make them feel like somekind of dark cultist of sort

And iam not talking about their own hp, the hp sacrifice skill based could work in many ways like..
-party hp- skill that cause all party member hp to "even out", for example member 1 is at 10%, the rest is at 70%, 80% and 100%, skill is used and every one hp is "adjust" to 65% (even out)

-Pet- summon a pet that act as your blood bank, any skill that use your hp will use the pet hp instead, the pet cant attack, only follow you and die when the hp run out, cant heal the pet, press the skill again to kill the pet instantly and raise a new one (if the skill is up and ready)

-dead enemy/party member- skill that require dead enemy or party member, summon a totem/voodoo on top of the dead body that cast aoe heal periodically for limited time, no dead enemy? See the pet sacrifice skill above