Tank and Healer class suggestion.

[Ametrine]

Hoplite puts me in mind of the General job in Fire Emblem, aethetically at least.

My only concern to add would be the fact that since SE has abandoned giving any job but PLD an off-hand after the fiasco that happened with Leviathan Mirrors, I doubt we'd see it used that way.

What about doing like Goofy does in Kingdome Hearts where the sheild is the weapon itself? Gigantic wall of a sheild that used to smack, bash, and block?

As for the Chemist inspired healer, I had made a similar idea! A pre-Magitek combatant, old-school Garlean could teach us their old techniques, although I prefaced it in regards of how they could take care of themselves without the use of Conjury. Thus, combat Alchemist. :P

[DeepbloodEclipse]

Hoplite puts me in mind of the General job in Fire Emblem, aethetically at least.

My only concern to add would be the fact that since SE has abandoned giving any job but PLD an off-hand after the fiasco that happened with Leviathan Mirrors, I doubt we'd see it used that way.

What about doing like Goofy does in Kingdome Hearts where the sheild is the weapon itself? Gigantic wall of a sheild that used to smack, bash, and block?

As for the Chemist inspired healer, I had made a similar idea! A pre-Magitek combatant, old-school Garlean could teach us their old techniques, although I prefaced it in regards of how they could take care of themselves without the use of Conjury. Thus, combat Alchemist. :P

Regarding to the shield only thing, my original idea was actually completely different, a long time ago I played this Chinese MMO that had this Monk class and it was basically a tank with one of it's weapons of choice being called the "Wheel", which was exactly what it sounds like, so my idea originally was that the character indeed does use one big shield that maybe has bladed edges or something and fights with it something akin to Tira from Soulcalibur, sounds cool in retrospect, but I have no idea how to implement it into FF:XIV.

As for self healing for the CPS, maybe a different animation, instead of firing out a grenade, the CPS instead uses a syringe for him-/herself or fire's a grenade into the air above themself