New Healer Job suggestion: Memorist

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Memorist appears in Final Fantasy Dimensions, one of the better, if lesser known mobile spin off titles.
It was essentially a combination of the Onion Knight and Mime jobs with a twist. It’s stats were based on how many ‘Memories’ you’ve found in the world, and it’s skills would be randomly selected when you used the Memorandum ability, from the skills that character has learned across all other jobs.
It’s aesthetic was kind of like a psychic monk, wearing a blindfold. I think this could work quite well as something with Sharlayan roots, or something from Garlean territories (like Gunbreaker) depending on the lore.

How would it work as a healer in FFXIV?
I’m thinking give it more focus on this ‘psychic’ angle, which would also draw some things from X-2’s Psychic Dressphere, have it heal and deal damage with psychic and telekinetic abilities.
Then this ‘Memorandum’ mechanic would be its unique gimmick, something like AST cards and Ninjutsu.
The following are just initial ideas, they could be changed in any number of ways, but it serves as a general framework to show the direction I’m thinking of.

Retrocog: Basic heal
Psychovita: AoE heal
Precog: Shield or HoT (but without the heal as well)
Psionic: Consumes an ‘X Eater’ effect to cast a powerful oGCD AoE heal/DPS combo spell.

Telekinesis: Basic DPS spell
Psychosis: Basic DoT

Excellence: 20% damage mitigation buff bestowed on yourself and one other party member. Duration 20s or until one or both of you fall below 50% HP.
Bicameralism: Determines whether or not Precog/Tempokinesis applies a HoT (Dextro) or a Shield (Sinistro) Toggle it on or off at will, even in battle, but costs MP and removes any ‘X Eater’ effect you currently have.
Memorise: Reduces the cooldown of the next oGCD you use.
Apportation: Teleportation utility skill.
Recollect: A cooldown that re-rolls all your unused Memorandum skills.

Memorandum:
You have four skills called Memorandum (1, 2, 3 and 4, unlocked one at a time over levels 50-70) Each one is essentially identical in its function, but they’re separate skills for a reason.
With a blank slate, upon using any of the four Memorandum skills, all of them will be replaced with a random option of the eight Memorandums listed below. Replaced in the same way as Ninjutsu or Card Draws.
You will then have access to these skills and each one can be used just once. Kind of like drawing four cards at once as an AST, except instead of being buffs, these are GCD spells, all with 2s cast times.
Upon using one of these skills, it will transform back into its relative Memorandum skill and be on the shared 30s cooldown all four skills are on.
Once Memorandum is off cooldown, pressing any one of them will repopulate all four skills again, whether you’ve used the other skills or not.

Memorandums: These are the possible spells you can use via Memorandum (just initial thoughts, could do with more development, maybe there's a good way of working for healing spells in here)
Cryokinesis: DPS spell with heavy, grants the effect of Ice Eater
Pyrokinesis: DPS spell with a DoT, grants the effect of Fire Eater
Electrokinesis: DPS spell with a stun/silence, grants the effect of Lighting Eater
Aerokinesis: DPS spell that decreases targets speed, grants the effect of Wind Eater
Geokinesis: DPS spell that decreases targets defence, grants the effect of Earth Eater
Aquakinesis: DPS spell that decreases targets damage, grants the effect of Water Eater
Psychokinesis: High potency AoE Heal spell, grants the effect of Mind Eater
Tempokinesis: High potency AoE Shield/HoT (depending on Bicameralism), grants the effect of Time Eater

Upon using Memorandum, you could receive any four of these eight spells to use over the next 30s. You won’t receive any duplicates, so you have a good chance of getting at least one of the healing spells. But as there are more DPS spells that healing spells, this essentially provides your additional DPS rotation outside of your basic GCD spell and DoT.

So basically your hotbar would look like this:
Memoranum – Memorandum II – Memorandum III – Memorandum IV

Upon using any one of these skills, they’d all change to something like this:
Pyrokinesis – Psychokinesis – Cryokinesis – Tempokinesis

If you used for example Psychokinesis then:
Pyrokinesis – Memorandum II – Cryokinesis – Tempokinesis

Then Tempokinesis:
Pyrokinesis – Memorandum II – Cryokinesis – Memorandum IV

(you could use Recollect here to change Pyro and Cryo into any other Memorandums, potentially regaining Tempo/Psycho, but II and IV would remain on cooldown)

Then if you used either Memorandum II or IV, once off cooldown, it’d change to something like:
Tempokinesis – Electrokinesis – Aquakinesis – Aerokinesis

X Eater effects:
The ‘X Eater’ effects are a passive effect on yourself that guarantees one of your next Memorandum will roll the skill of that element.
Only one Eater effect can be active at a time.
Basically, the last Memorandum you use before rerolling can be used to guarantee you get that skill again the next time. (as you can see in the example above, the last skill used prior to rerolling was Tempokinesis, and Tempokinesis was the first of the new roll too)
You can consume this effect for the skill Psionic, which reduces your control over the next Memorandum roll.
Alternatively you can consume this for Psionic prior to your final Memorandum, but that means you won’t have the ability to remove this if your final Memorandum isn’t one you want to repeat.
These Eater effects are essentially used to ‘remember’ one of your skills for next time.

LB3: Forgotten Souls
Delve into the memories contained deep within your soulstone to unleash all psionic powers used by the previous bearers in one go. Reviving and healing all party members.


The skills Excellence, Psionics and the ‘X Eaters’ are all from X-2’s Psychic Dressphere.
Memorandum, Memorise and Recollect are all from FFDimension’s Memorist job.
The rest are other psychic powers or psychological terms.

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So is this too similar to AST do you think? Or is there enough there for a unique job?