Thread: NEW HEALER FOR 5.0

Originally Posted by colorbanditblk

I’m like 90% sure that the reason we didn’t get a healer this expansion either is all because of blue mage, which annoys the heck out of me cuz I didn’t even want the job in the first place. My guess is that a lot of development time went into blue mage while they were working on Dancer and Gunbreaker so they didn’t have much more time before the expansion to develop a healer. So this we were left behind again...

Yeah but then they could have skipped dancer and make a healer then. It's no excuse. After one expansion without healer, they had to make one.

Originally Posted by kazzel120

Guys i can understand no new healer announced this time. But when they showed Gaia Yoshi talked alot about how they can make the hammer work so possibly a new healer they might spring at the last few months before release.

Personally i was hoping for dnc healer to go with the new Gunbreaker but either way dont just give up hope yet because Yoshi hides too much in what he says.

Anyway heres to hoping for a hammer healer for all you healer mains who keep tanks like me alive.

Posted this in a couple more threads.
Holding out hope for all you healers being a tank main myself.

I hope you and others who are staying positive are correct. But I don't think this is gonna happen. I'm just gonna reroll as a drg for ShB. I love sch but I've played it since arr and ast didnt exactly clense my pallet as its either sch lite or whm lite when it comes to healing. A new healer would have been a chance to break that. Who knows. Maybe we will all be jumping for joy by the end of the weekend.

If a new healer is not ready on launch of Shadowbringers, they wont release one till the next expansion. Why? Raid tuning and balancing. It would cause a massive mess if they did a mid expansion job release. They have already said that they are fairly set in their ways when it comes to development cycles and scheduling. They like their schedule so I am expecting that the healer will be the last job they will introduce and then no longer add new jobs because it is getting too complex to balance them all. I hope I am wrong, I want to be wrong, prove me wrong... please.

I feel as though they need to fix the current healer mess but I doubt they will just outright drop the idea of adding a new healer.

If so then I can see them doing some heavy changes to the current healers making it seem as though a new expierence.

Originally Posted by Anselmet

I hope you and others who are staying positive are correct. But I don't think this is gonna happen. I'm just gonna reroll as a drg for ShB. I love sch but I've played it since arr and ast didnt exactly clense my pallet as its either sch lite or whm lite when it comes to healing. A new healer would have been a chance to break that. Who knows. Maybe we will all be jumping for joy by the end of the weekend.

He also said that one of his live letters before the expansion drops was going to be a big one.

Again I'm holding onto some small ray of light we're still getting a new healer but they're waiting for the last possible moment to say "Look here guys a new hammer healer for you to play as" effectively giving everyone the hammer job they wanted and a new healer.

Been thinking, what if it's an Oracle?

Originally Posted by Heliantheae

Been thinking, what if it's an Oracle?

This is actually a pretty good question since it's one of the only potential jobs that Yoshi himself stated had been in the works, stating a desire for an Eastern-themed spellcaster for Stormblood in at least two separate interviews.

Then again, the biggest hurdle to a new healer (or just another job at this point) is that it would mean devs having to have done something they haven't done since Heavensward and something they said they never wanted to do again: work on four new jobs simultaneously, because the timetable would mean Blue Mage would've been in the schedule along with other new jobs. Maybe they have something different going for them than they did four years ago--streamlined job process, more devs or resources, I'm not sure--but the work required to make a new job in addition to all the other work they've done and are still doing would be the biggest hurdle to it.

Originally Posted by Shurrikhan

But that tiniest of (im)balancing gimmicks isn't going to make up for a poor connection to job aesthetic. We have a quick, lithe, poised job that has traditionally been of hybrid range and capable of weaving through battles and instead we make sure it has no reason ever to dodge, does not weave through battles, and can instead simply turret from range however it likes...

Traditionally, the dancer job sat in the back row and danced to bestow party buffs or inflict battle-wide status effects, and thats it.

Originally Posted by Seraphor

Traditionally, the dancer job sat in the back row and danced to bestow party buffs or inflict battle-wide status effects, and thats it.

And considering that ranged physical DPS are the closest we have to that in this game, its a perfect fit there. The keynote said that the dances would be for party buffs.