Is It Even Possible To Have A New Healer Job?

[Maku]

The new healer will look very much like the other three in skills with just new effects. Mainly due to the fact that the community will shout and yell if they are not the same thing as the current three. Anything that might set them apart will have to be so diluted as to not make them in any way better than the current three.

So they will have some form of HoT, some form of shielding, some form of buff/WHM lvl DPS, and the ability to burst heal due to this games love of burst damage.

WHM has no shield, they screamed about SCH shields so they gave WHM a shield skill all be it slightly different. AST cards set them apart to much, so they nerfed them down into meaninglessness. Now all three healers are perfectly inter-changeable and no DPS or TANK really cares what symbol is in that green square so long as they have a green square.

[Kacho_Nacho]

The new healer will look very much like the other three in skills with just new effects. Mainly due to the fact that the community will shout and yell if they are not the same thing as the current three. Anything that might set them apart will have to be so diluted as to not make them in any way better than the current three.

So they will have some form of HoT, some form of shielding, some form of buff/WHM lvl DPS, and the ability to burst heal due to this games love of burst damage.

WHM has no shield, they screamed about SCH shields so they gave WHM a shield skill all be it slightly different. AST cards set them apart to much, so they nerfed them down into meaninglessness. Now all three healers are perfectly inter-changeable and no DPS or TANK really cares what symbol is in that green square so long as they have a green square.

I disagree, somewhat. While there are some vocal players who want what the other healers have, I feel the overall community doesn't mind different effects. They are more concerned about equality between the class mechanics. For example, they want to make sure a white mage's reactive heals are just as effective in the raid environment as a scholar's shields.

My chief concern is S.E. may have painted themselves into a corner making it impossible to introduce a new healer without stepping on another healer's niche. Many of the individuals in this thread have quite creatively shown that is not the case.