Will you support for a Songstress Healer Job?

[EdwinLi]

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May or maybe not. After all if they can give a bunch of Jobs different types of swords for different methods of fighting styles (PLD, DRK, RDM, SAM, and other future Jobs) they can get a bit more creative and add Jobs that use things like Song Magic in different ways similar to how Red Mage, lore wise, took concept from both Black Mage and White Mage into their fighting styles.

They can also use Songstress Job storyline as a continuation of the Song Bird's storyline as well considering they hinted on ending the Song Bird's storyline for events last year thus making the SongBirds (and WoL) to be Eorzea's first Songstress Job users.

[manamoppet]

I've kind of hoped for a while that we get Songstress using chants, sort of similar to in FF-X2, especially if they could make it a hybrid with Dancer.

[Soge01]

^
A songstress mixed with dancer sounds amazing!

[Transient_Shadow]

Of course!
Internally screaming at the idea of singing to heal people because of social anxiety >.>'

[loreleidiangelo]

When you said Songstress, I was thinking of the ones from the Ar Tonelico series. They would sing to either deal damage or support/heal the party, ok granted that's not FF but I still thought it was kinda cool anyway to have Song Magic like that.

I'd be okay with this only if as the fight goes on we slowly get naked to "empower" our healing spells. :P

EDIT: Link for context, but...it's not especially safe for work, or life, or persons of general moral standard and upbringing. >.>

[Reyos]

Me and one of my friends actually got theorycrafting about this, but not called songstress, more performer. I think irecall them saying that now every main city has a tank, so it got us thinking , not every main city has a healer, ul dah doesent have one. Uldah is home to two things, dancers and singers (keep an eye out for the little ladies event for possible hint drops?). We was thinking maybe it sung for heals, and danced for buffs. Its weapon a microphone. Plus preformers have been in other square enix games to (bravely default), so we diddent think it would be to far. It could have 2 stances like ast, singer stance and dancer stance. Singer stance empowers your healing, dancer empowers your buffs somehow (longer duration, adds another effect?)

[Zeich]

Me and one of my friends actually got theorycrafting about this, but not called songstress, more performer. I think irecall them saying that now every main city has a tank, so it got us thinking , not every main city has a healer, ul dah doesent have one. Uldah is home to two things, dancers and singers (keep an eye out for the little ladies event for possible hint drops?). We was thinking maybe it sung for heals, and danced for buffs. Its weapon a microphone. Plus preformers have been in other square enix games to (bravely default), so we diddent think it would be to far. It could have 2 stances like ast, singer stance and dancer stance. Singer stance empowers your healing, dancer empowers your buffs somehow (longer duration, adds another effect?)

All I can think of when you say Performer is Bravely Second with Praline a la Mode. Love in the Crossfire indeed. :P

Would definitely risk stepping on Bard toes, however.

[Risvertasashi]

With its similarity to dancer, I'd hope SE would go in a more unique direction for the 5th healer.

[ksuyen]

Arguably, we have two 'basic' signature healings: shield (proactive) for SCH and regen (reactive) for WHM (AST has both). It would be refreshing if we have a third basic unique healing for the new healer instead of reusing shield and regen or the combo of both. Here are some ideas: heal by dps, heal by singing buff, mends/wards (proactive), meele healing with combo points, buff/debuff... mmm any more ideas?

[EdwinLi]

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I have always think Song Magic and Dance Magic for healing would be more of a Healing with Attack and/or Defense buff type of Healing.

It would be nice to introduce a Buffer Healer Job.

Another type of Healer can be a Debuffer Healer Job which not only applies Heals but enemies near the person the Healer heals gets a debuff that makes their attack weaker or defense weaker which would fit Chemist Healer Job well.

With its similarity to dancer, I'd hope SE would go in a more unique direction for the 5th healer.

Depends on Dancer and Songstress is utilized with their magic.

Dance Magic is cast by the movement of the body without the need for any words.

Song Magic requires the use of words into a type of song to reflect the use of the Magic and does not require any body movement.