New Healer Job? Bets or not?

[Jandor]

For example... SPOILERS for Gunbreaker Lore

The Gunblade that gunbreaker use are the ORIGINAL gunblades designed to use Magical Ammo to create the explosions from the hits and other magical aspect attacks and the Garlean gunblades are considered cheap knock offs of the Gunblades being just Guns with long blades attached to them. Though that means Garlean Gunblades fight more like Lightning's Gunblade while these original Gunblades fight more like Squall's Gunblade.

Though this does give SE a open to introduce Garlean Gunblades for a different Job (hopefully DPS) and call their Gunblade something different such as "Gunedge".

Funnily enough

despite the claim in the GNB quests (and by Yoshi-P himself in an interview IIRC) that Garlean gunblades are just guns with blades attached, the game itself doesn't really do much to actually support that assertion.

Garlean Gunblade users in-game have a rather unique fighting style made up of lots of dashing in and out of melee, summoning X shaped magitek projectiles around the arena, and spreading copious amounts of ceruleum fueled fire everywhere.

The Garlean gunblade user you fight in the Gunbreaker 70 quest (using the heavier 2 handed gunblade style) is a decent example of the Imperial style in action, and it looks like it has potential to be a very interesting DPS job with a bit of fleshing out. Good opportunity to give those melee DPS that want a heavy two handed sword job what they want too.

[Zanarkand-Ronso]

The Ast SB storyline teases/talks about Geomancers. This is a possibility for the Next Healer Maybe.
I still like the idea and concept of Chemist more, since its likely we are going to Garlemald in 6.0, if not in the 2nd arc/Post Shadowbringers.

[Reiryuu]

Don't kid yourselves. There likely won't be a 4th healer job, just another clone of an existing healer job watered down and given some sort of different skin. That's if they even bother trying. My bets for 6.0? A new magic DPS class -- gotta have 4 of everything now, right? and another Melee DPS that uses DRG armor because... we've "needed" one of those for like ever, right?

[cougarel]

They need to balance the 3 healers we have now before even thinking about adding a new one.

[Violet_Galaxy]

They need to balance the 3 healers we have now before even thinking about adding a new one.

I thought that's what they did this expansion

[Nalien]

They'll add Chemist in 5.4 as a new healer.

It'll be a Limited Job though.

[Listrella]

next expansion will likely introduce a new healer and dps job, don't expect anything before then though.

[Seraphor]

Geo does have a bit of an identity crisis in FFXIV.
The Geo's in the AST questline are more mitigation healers, while those featured in the auspice questline are more of a Conjury DPS class.

I wouldn't be opposed to a Caster DPS Geomancer with earth and water spells.

I'd prefer a new kind of Healer, like a Chemist, or Psychic.

[Rombus]

Chemist is still my bet on new Healer Job. It will fit into being a Garlean theme Job and can continue the story of Chemical weapons in Garlean Empire involving Garlean Chemist that wanted to develop chemicals to save lives and cure diseases rather than create chemical designed to only kill living beings.

Give it a M32 Grenade launcher and it will be perfect.

I want Chemist so bad and I can so see this has their origins.

[AlphaFox]

Still say we need a Melee type healer. Give us a 2H Hammer (or I guess 1H and shield?), keep the robes I suppose or a more "armored" robe look for the base class.