Thread: NEW HEALER FOR 5.0

Originally Posted by Saefinn

They also need to fix how healers are balanced. However, as a healer main, I'd like to see a new healer and was hoping Dancer would be it, because it would be a good and interesting healer concept. If Geomancer is announced as a healer role, I'd still be down for that. But at the moment we've not really had anything new/different for a long time in terms of playing healers and Astrologian wasn't even -that- new, although it had things to build its identity such as the card buffs but on a healing level, it's a hybrid of Scholar and White Mage. So as a healer it didn't add anything new, it just helped blur the lines on the healers. Which we've seen happen in further adjustments. For example: White Mage got Assize, Scholar got Indominability and Astrologian got Earthly Star, they are all more-or-less the same spell but each with their own flavours.

If Geomancer is announced as a healer I would not be down for that. Spoilers ahead so tags enabled for that

In the lore of the 60-70 AST questline, it is established that GEO is either CNJ/WHM/AST (can't remember which off-hand, I think it's AST), but with them looking to the ground for their power, not the sky. That to me would feel like it's just an expansion of a different job, rather than a job in its own right.

Green Mage, Time Mage, Oracle, etc, I'd be down for as a healer, just anything but Geomancer. DNC we felt would have been good as a healer because of how it'd have forced SE to shake up the healing formula, which probably explains why they made it a ranged DPS instead.

Originally Posted by Saefinn

Ah, I've yet to finish the AST 60-70 storyline, though I had heard about connections to CNJ, so I figured it would be something that'd build on Conjurer lore but take to a different direction. But I should probably finish with AST.

Now, if SE made it another job that branched off CNJ (like the SMN/SCH thing) then yeah sure, I'd be down for that. But SE have said they'll never do that job split again, so we have to consider it'd have its own lore that doesn't tie in to CNJ. Thus it rules out GEO.

There's always Chemist as an option. Whilst it never appealed to me in other FF titles, but Octopath Traveller kinda opened me up to the idea of such a healer. They could mix poisons and explosives as their DPS moves. Mixing could be a mechanic used. A bit like mudras with its own flavour.

Yep, I do like the sound of that. I would love a healer like that. Could really spice up the formula. So I would definitely give that a full on try.

Originally Posted by Ceasaria

Where are my physical, ranged and melee Healers ?

Probably another 10 years down the road. It would be nice to have a wider variety type of healers ... the problem is that a healer can completely trivialize content if it is not balanced properly (i.e. a physical healer (my idea of one) would be severely overpowered imo.)

Every patch caster dps is never balanced (at least at the beginning for example). Tanks also are not all that balanced but they added one. But at least tank was needed so SE got that right at least.
Needing to "balance" healers first really was a poor excuse and i am on the healers side on this one. Healers were supposed to be balanced for Stormblood.

@guardin, the only ones entitled are dps. Physical ranged needed some yes but it could have waited until 6.0. There is LOTS of other dps to choose from.
And this is coming from someone who has always been a dps main.