Healer NPC Diversity

[Vanitas]

Running out of things to complain about I see.

[SannaR]

It's also stated in the Black Mage quest line you can't cast the bigger/harder black magic if you don't have a soul stone or you end up dying. I think there could be more Red Mages as our trainer got taught by someone else and had a fellow student. Then we also have Geomancers who from what little we know about them are a cross of conjury and astrology. Some of the we don't see a lot of X job is probably due to having so many soul stones or teachers of the art not being around or lost to time and various calamities. I mean we've had giant earthquakes, floods, fires ice ages and at least where scholar is concerned a whole city engulfed by a magical weapon of mass destruction.

[Bright-Flower]

It's also stated in the Black Mage quest line you can't cast the bigger/harder black magic if you don't have a soul stone or you end up dying. I think there could be more Red Mages as our trainer got taught by someone else and had a fellow student. Then we also have Geomancers who from what little we know about them are a cross of conjury and astrology. Some of the we don't see a lot of X job is probably due to having so many soul stones or teachers of the art not being around or lost to time and various calamities. I mean we've had giant earthquakes, floods, fires ice ages and at least where scholar is concerned a whole city engulfed by a magical weapon of mass destruction.

I'd have to redo the blm quest, but it seemed to me like those people burned themselves out more so because of inexperience/poor training than it being inevitable without a stone. Much more dangerous without one but it didn't leave me thinking it was impossible.

[ObsidianFire]

Not quite. If you ask Sugiru about what is up with Myste after the Lvl. 70 DRK quests, he just says that soul crystals are weird and no one knows everything about them. And then he backs that up by saying that rumor has Paladins have a thing where their Soul Crystals need some kind of pecking order established or their Soul Crystals don't work properly.

[zuzu-bq]

I really hope the devs see this, and add more lore to the healers.

Going by your post, seems like you haven't even read what the lore the lore team prepared about them.

Also don't know if people mentioned but, don't forget Ishgardian Chirurgeons.

[SannaR]

Tristan had a bunch of smn soul crystals course I think those were messed with as we know he got them from a questionable source.

[ObsidianFire]

There's been two places in the SMN quests where we find SMN Soul Stones. The first would be from Tristan, and those are the Soul Stones that the Immortal Flames are using to train Summoners. The second is the Node in the Lvl 70 SMN quest. In order to create the Egi of Sari, it needed to be hooked up to several Soul Stones. Those were somehow "eaten" by Principa for safekeeping in the event more Soul Stones were needed.

For the oldest Soul Stones we've yet come across, there's honestly a lot of SMN Soul Stones. It's just that the job has a lot of other prerequisites that keep it rare (being around for the defeat of a primal without being tempered mainly). What I would not be surprised to learn is if the Allagans with all their aetherchemistry figured out how to mass produce soul stones and made lots of them very quickly. Summoners weren't around for that long after all. It would explain why enough Soul Stones survived to the preset day for there to be multiple copies still around. We've probably got more Summoner Soul Stones then White Mage, Black Mage or Scholor Soul Stones at the moment.

[LineageRazor]

I was putting some more thought into the role of the SCH soulstone as home to the Fairy. SCH are an extension of ACN, and one major difference between entities summoned by ACN and SMN, and those summoned by SCH, is that the SCH summons apparently persist even when not summoned. They do not completely vanish between summonings, and maintain a continuity of memory between summons. Carbuncles (and likely also Egis), on the other hand, are created wholly anew each time they are summoned, and do not have any memories from their times previously summoned.

It makes me wonder if early Scholars might not have originally summoned Fairies just as Arcanists do Carbuncles, with the Fairy completely disappearing and "resetting" between each summoning. Eventually, Scholars realized that it could be strategically useful for their Fairies to exist persistently, even when not actively summoned. There may have been many experiments to find ways to preserve Fairies between summonings before finally settling on storing the Fairy within the Scholar Soulstone.

Otherwise, we start running into chicken-or-the-egg issues... If you can't be a SCH without a Soulstone, where did the first Fairies come from?