Geomancer

[GrumbleBeard]

It's already been brought up in the AST quests and now the upcoming dungeon mentions the founder of geomancy. I know in the AST quests it uses white magic but I would hope it's just a placeholder. Despite the similar theme, I feel they could make geo different enough from whm, possibly including other unused elements. I know dancer is the go-to wanted healer but I honestly find the idea of it dull and erp fueled. Anyone excited for the possibility of geomancer? (Best class in FFT btw)

[KisaiTenshi]

It's already been brought up in the AST quests and now the upcoming dungeon mentions the founder of geomancy. I know in the AST quests it uses white magic but I would hope it's just a placeholder. Despite the similar theme, I feel they could make geo different enough from whm, possibly including other unused elements. I know dancer is the go-to wanted healer but I honestly find the idea of it dull and erp fueled. Anyone excited for the possibility of geomancer? (Best class in FFT btw)

My feeling, if Yoshi-P is really keeping this under his hat, is that they might introduce geomancer as job you can get if you have completed AST to 70, as that would be the only logical thing as there are no (real) geomancers other than Kyokuho, and the next dungeon being introduced IS the geomancer temple. So unless they have put some parallel lore in for discovering the geomancer job stone (which is basically how WHM and BLM worked too) it would probably get way too awkward to fit back into the existing lore.

That said, it's also possible to play HW and SB without having leveled lancer/dragoon and thus there is an entire backstory to HW that begins in the dragoon job quest. So it wouldn't be beneath Yoshi-P to just put the geomancer job in the game, use Kyokuho for the job quests, and only side-reference his AST adventure, since it looks like the Geomancer temple is a new dungeon (but was it indicated as being a MSQ dungeon?)

Also, it needs to be pointed out that Geomancer doesn't necessarily have to be a healer. Pretty much every single-player mission which has a NPC companion has white magic spells, even ones that we no longer have as WHM.

[CupidCrux]

It'll be interesting to see if you unlock GEO, do it's missions that have Kyokuho being a proficient GEO now, then go back and play AST, and during it's missions he somehow doesnt know what he's doing lol It'll be like me recently finishing coils and seeing old armor/clothes Alphinaud and sister because I did content out of order.

[Eloah]

NO! NO HEALER. GEO is to be a Tank. Our beautiful, beautiful magical tank, XD.

And no joke. While I really want a GEO tank, them becoming one just makes sense. The pseudo lore we are given falls in line with a tank or a healer. And since we know a healer might just be a WHM on steroids, a tank seems like a better option.

[GrumbleBeard]

I've always liked the class and honestly I wouldn't mind what role it would end up playing. As mentioned above it would be strange for people who haven't leveled ast yet and do it later but they don't seem to mind just throwing it in there. I know they said they would never do it again, but I think it would be great to release it early, especially to help with the content lull a lot of people have been feeling lately.

[Pastahnak]

I could see them adding in geo regardless of role and going back and fixing the Astro story depending on if you've unlocked geo or not. They've changed cutscenes/story slightly before and it wouldn't be far fetched to think they could do it again with geo.