Any love for a non-magic based healer?

[YusiKha]

Currently the 3 healers we have have close ties to magic. Would a 4th that we get also use magic? I hope not, because a combat medic type healer would be an aesthetic that I believe would be very cool indeed, and would bring further variety to our role.

Skills would still use MP, of course, because it’s an abstraction for gameplay purposes. But attacks could use alchemical items or bombs or some such (think riku’s mix overdrive from FFX) to attack enemies and heal and support allies.

[DarkMasamune]

I just pictured a new healer class that uses acupuncture to heal their fellow party members

I think it could be neat to have a more physical healer rather than a magical one, why not ? Something different is always welcome.

[Ilenya]

Chemist, anyone?

[Kurando]

Healing gun mage, fires shots, grenades, maybe even bazookas to heal your party members and support them with turret shielding. Think Ana/Baptiste (Overwatch), Pepper (Evolution), Valkyria Chronicles etc.

[OcieKo]

So pretty much everyone in here said Chemist...
I'm personally okay with more magical healers tho, would prefer a less civilized one, a Shaman or Druid of some-sort.

[Kemiko]

This comes up a lot. I tried finding a source on this but I could only find this from the tvtropes FFXIV trivia.

Quoted from tvtropes: According to Yoshi-P's social media accounts, the gun using class started its life as Chemist, a healer, but at some point during development they scrapped the idea, turning them into DPS Machinists and creating a new healing class in the Astrologian.

[YusiKha]

Well we have a gun using dps and a gun using tank now, maybe the dream isn’t dead?

[Wiccan026]

Arguably whatever healer (if we ever get one) probably would use "magic" to some degree since they took TP away (although I suppose several skills might just use mp now in
game that didn't before, guess we have to wait and see).

That being said I wouldnt really want chemist... I mean there job, while not put in the game in a way folks like, is already represented by a crafting class... and therefore one would assume their job gear should have a similar effect and that wouldn't be my cup of tea.

[Gemina]

Kind of, sort of, but not really. I was on board when a lot of us speculated that DNC would be a healer, and was looking forward to how they would go about doing it knowing that they are not really casters. Now that that's gone, my ideas of a new healer goes back to another magical based caster again.

I've seen a lot of ideas on Chemist and haven't really gravitated towards any of them. Puppeteer is another one that has crossed my mind. Puppetmaster has a moderate demand, and seeing what anime can do with puppets has intrigued me to have similar concepts brought into FFXIV, but it was only recently that I thought about them as possible healers.

When I think of puppeteers in FFXIV, my ideas greatly diverge from the mammets of FFXI and think more of tribal and morbid automatons for a new pet class that is filled to brim with nifty nuances with how they go about healing allies and damaging opponents, which includes but not limited to those explosive healing grenades that seem to be so popular xD

[miraidensetsu]

I'm in for chemist. A ranged physical healer would be interesting.