Will the wol / wod ever ‘main’ a healer class?

[Transient_Shadow]

Just something silly to ponder but I couldn’t help but notice that the wol has always been a dps of some kind until 5.0 where they’re now a tank.

Will we healers ever get our time in the spotlight? Will the derplander ever lead the fight while healing his allies? What kind of white robes will he wear?

Like I said. Something silly to ponder.

EDIT: I completely forgot about war >.>' but it is pretty much a blue dps how sch is a green dps DX

[Iscah]

Not sure about healer, but I'm calling Red Mage as poster job for 6.0, for its "balance of white and black magic" theme.

[Dualgunner]

Not sure about healer, but I'm calling Red Mage as poster job for 6.0, for its "balance of white and black magic" theme.

I'd be happy about that. Although I'm biased.

[LalaRu]

J...What kind of white robes will he wear?...

He will side with Ascians and will get same robe as Elidibus.

[Transient_Shadow]

Not sure about healer, but I'm calling Red Mage as poster job for 6.0, for its "balance of white and black magic" theme.

Honestly I want at least three expansions with the darkness ark. I’m extatic for the new direction and don’t want to see it go back to ‘only light can banish the darkness’ for quite some time if ever.

[Dualgunner]

Honestly I want at least three expansions with the darkness ark. I’m extatic for the new direction and don’t want to see it go back to ‘only light can banish the darkness’ for quite some time if ever.

"Only light can banish the darkness" isn't what RDM stands for. It's balance: sure, Light is not always right, but neither is Dark, and both need to be kept in check.

[Jandor]

Just something silly to ponder but I couldn’t help but notice that the wol has always been a dps of some kind until 5.0 where they’re now a tank.

He was a tank for ARR. Worn out memes aside, Warrior is not a DPS.

[miraidensetsu]

He was a tank for ARR. Worn out memes aside, Warrior is not a blue DPS.

Fixed that for you.

[Jandor]

Long answer: We, healers, will never get our time in the spotlight. We got some bone thrown at Stormblood, with the game finally recognizing you're playing as healer job at one specific quest. And that is it.

And that is because healers doesn't sell expansions. DPS and tanks does.

It's not because healers don't sell expansions, with the possible exception of Red Mage, trailer WoL will likely never be a caster DPS either. Wizards throwing fireballs, summoning monsters and dropping meteors on people is definitely the sort of sexy CGI that could shift expansions though.

The trailer WoL is always a mobile class/job, they basically spend the trailers bouncing around all over the place. Standing at the back casting spells doesn't fit with the active 'leader/main character' aesthetic they seem to prefer using for the trailer WoL.

That's why they're not a healer (or caster) IMHO. Although brief flashes of casting jobs are still a possibility I just don't seem them making a job like that the full focus of a trailer.

[TheHeavenAbyss]

It's not because healers don't sell expansions, with the possible exception of Red Mage, trailer WoL will likely never be a caster DPS either. Wizards throwing fireballs, summoning monsters and dropping meteors on people is definitely the sort of sexy CGI that could shift expansions though.

The trailer WoL is always a mobile class/job, they basically spend the trailers bouncing around all over the place. Standing at the back casting spells doesn't fit with the active 'leader/main character' aesthetic they seem to prefer using for the trailer WoL.

That's why they're not a healer (or caster) IMHO. Although brief flashes of casting jobs are still a possibility I just don't seem them making a job like that the full focus of a trailer.

Well, to be fair, the WoL appears as a Dragoon looking awesome in the Heavensward intro but you don't see him fight. They could do something similar. If the context in the trailer looks cool enough, the WoL doesn't have to do anything to look awesome (it's almost the same with Dark Knight in the ShB trailer, he mostly stands there looking cool).