New Healer Job? Bets or not?

[Lauro]

Who's feeling the gamber and wana bet they will introduce a new healer down the road on the the big patch ?

[Enla]

They stated it won't happen till 6.0 if at all.

[Callinon]

I'll give you 10,000,000 to 1 against on that.

Just stop. The soonest a new healer will be introduced is the next expansion at the earliest. Working yourself up like this just leads to disappointment OF YOUR OWN MAKING.

[EdwinLi]

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.

[Tsukino]

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.

This is my preferred new healing job - I think they could use abilities like ingredients in a way similar to how Ninjutsu or dance steps currently work, where you combine different ones in different quantities to produce different effects. They could have classic FF Mix ingredient names, and it would certainly feel different than the other healers.

The biggest point against this is that in Japanese the job shares its name with a class that's already in the game - Alchemist.

[EdwinLi]

This is my preferred new healing job - I think they could use abilities like ingredients in a way similar to how Ninjutsu or dance steps currently work, where you combine different ones in different quantities to produce different effects. They could have classic FF Mix ingredient names, and it would certainly feel different than the other healers.

The biggest point against this is that in Japanese the job shares its name with a class that's already in the game - Alchemist.

Best part of new jobs is the new lore for the Job which can be used to resolve this issue such as the Lore for Chemist may go into how these people chosen to become more as Field Medics rather than stay in the lab type of people the Alchemists are.

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".

[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.

[Nalien]

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

It'll be a Limited Job though.