New Healer Job? Bets or not?

[Yawnie]

Give us a Songstress please! Though I have a feeling SE is gonna take a loooong time to balance the healers (if at all).

[rachcouture]

Give us a Songstress please! Though I have a feeling SE is gonna take a loooong time to balance the healers (if at all).

God yes. All I want is one music-themed healer. Please make it happen.

[Derio]

Next expansion will be a new healer and new dps job

[ApolloGenX]

I have major concerns that they won't be able to create a new healer, just a clone of existing healers. There seems to be a distinct lack of creativity on healing methods and deficit of balancing ability.

Are there other types of heals? Of course, you can see them in other games.... but with the way things have gone, I'm not sure the team can handle a new healing variable very well...

[Nalien]

Are there other types of heals? Of course, you can see them in other games.... but with the way things have gone, I'm not sure the team can handle a new healing variable very well...

Only idea for a gimmick for a new healer I can think of is one that converts damage into DoTs, although in all honestly I could slap that on Astrologian just so Nocturnal Sect isn't knock-off Scholar anymore.

For it's own Job though, I think it's a solid gimmick to potentially build off of, but balancing might be hard... It's Adloquium/Aspected Benefic equivalent would apply a shield that absorbs damage and inflicts a DoT based on the damage taken (simple example; The shield absorbs 100 damage, inflicts a 30s DoT, that's 10 damage/tic). Could have different levels of that, so one spell applies a short duration DoT (in which case each tic would likely be higher potency) while another inflicts a longer potency one (high amount of damage spread over a longer duration, each tic would be weaker). Could have a special Esuna type ability to just delete the DoT, effectively meaning it was just an Adlo style shield, heck even a Bane style ability to spread it onto the entire party to reduce each tic?

Really though, since it's not actually healing damage, but rather delaying it... That really fits with Astrologian IMO... Heck it's literally the exact opposite of Diurnal Sect, applying a DoT rather than a Regen... Too perfect...

[Raikai]

It might be just wild speculation, but I strongly believe that them moving WHM away from aspected spells with Glare and Dia is basically groundwork for a GEO healer in the future, and it would use water aspected to heal and other aspected spells to dps.

[loreleidiangelo]

GEO as a melee hammer healer who "creates" terrain that buffs or alters their heals as they stand in it would be legit, ngl. If it's repurposed CNJ though hard pass.

[IlSire]

I can see Geomancer happening with a strong elemental theme.
Removing Stone, Aero and moving WHM fully into "light" magic is quite fishy.

[Jinorah]

They need to fix the healers they screwed up first

[Keumjo]

I have absolutely no faith in getting a new healer or them balancing healers in a meaningful way.
If I get surprised, well yay, but at this moment their excuses and changes to healers have only been disappointing to me.
Although I am disenchanted, others may not be, so it really doesn't matter anyway.