Job thought....Chemist (Working name)

[Risvertasashi]

An idea that I've been juggling with for a while is the idea of a healer that mixes "ingredients" together to produce a result. Essentially it would function like Rikku's FFX "Mix" Overdrive combined with NIN mudra. This ability could then be further augmented via abilities to make the concoction AoE or have additional affects.

As AST is kinda RNG, and the other two can get stale, this may be a decent way to have some depth in the role. Let me know what you think, always interested in hearing opinions, whether positive or critical.

Also on the off chance anyone at SE reads this and wants to use any of it, feel free. I claim no ownership to any of the ideas posted here.

You're not the only one to suggest it - pre-heavensward, a number of people suggested chemist (some even giving detailed writeups of each ability it might have), and SE later mentioned in an interview they considered it. I still hope we'll see it some day - I'm one of the strange ones that gets more excited about that concept than Dancer. Though... with ShB bringing us this Dancer, 4 more years to maybe see another healer - that may or may not be chemist - it's a long wait.

I've been toying with something like this too! I do think one obstacle is what the ingredients are/where they come from/if they have a price and what happens if you're broke or unable to obtain more.

I can't imagine SE would be obtuse enough to add a class that has to buy ammo. It'd probably work closer to BRD/MCH or StarsiderSajun's description.

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That sounds like a really cool way to do it.

[Jaywalker]

I can't imagine SE would be obtuse enough to add a class that has to buy ammo. It'd probably work closer to BRD/MCH or StarsiderSajun's description.

Naw I agree with you. When I was initially considering I was thinking about how if it has a mixing setup it would balance various components and all. Having some kind of cost to using abilities is important to making sure players don't godmod imo, you have to manage resources that way. Running out of a specific number of materials/having to buy more would not be a workable solution though like you said. So handwaving with hammerspace is probably the way to go haha.