why are all healers "casters"

[Gralna]

DAoC had some decent melee healers in Friar, Warden and Valkyrie. Warden and Valkyrie had piddly dmg but offered significant healing and/or dmg mitigation to party. Friar is probably closest to what could work in XIV though, it's weapon skills were directly tied to heals and buffs for the party and it did decent dmg to boot.

[Avidria]

One of my fav healers I've played is still Imperial Operative from SWTOR... I shoot kolto needles at my allies to heal them. It's to help you, I promise! :^)

[MOZZYSTAR]

A physical healer would be cool. I heard that OW (never played it) has a healer where they 'shoot' people heals xD It inspired me to come up with a long ranged physical healer that uses explosives to heal, buff, debuff, et cetera, but I never posted it up because it seemed like a waste of time. I'd definitely be interested in seeing a physical healer. Hell, DNC could have been a physical healer based on its storyline alone (but no, SE said no healers, yo).

[Hasrat]

I just want a job that uses the classic Healing Rods of yore. Literally have to attack teammates to heal.

[Zanarkand-Ronso]

Because they haven't made a different type of Healer for XIV yet.
Don't worry, I have faith we will get a Non-Traditional Healer in the near future...we have to. They'd not sell us a new Healer and Not Make it different then the others.

[Warlyx]

because tanks are melee , and having 4 "melee" (5 sometimes) is too much already

i can see ranged healer , xbow maybe? or boomerang ! or whip!

[AngeliouxRein]

I wouldn't mind the healer jobs with inspiration from Dragon Nest. They had a healer that would melee with a mace and protect itself with a shield. He could cast a lot of lightning base skills and then drop a huge cross on the field, like WHM with their healing bubble, and it would sit there for a bit to heal. It had other ways to heal but I feel those who want to be a bad @ss healer would like that. They also had a chemist in that game that did most of their damage with poison and would toss bottles at their enemies and toss heals too. Although the chemist was also a gunner, I think they can tweak it to fit here. I miss that game ;-; but I think those types of healers would be a nice addition to this one.

[linay]

because tanks are melee , and having 4 "melee" (5 sometimes) is too much already

i can see ranged healer , xbow maybe? or boomerang ! or whip!

Yep, even if not caster, still has to be ranged due to positional requirements in game. A healer than can only heal in melee distance would not be good for FFXIV in my opinion. Imagine having to chase someone down to heal them.

[AngeliouxRein]

All I pictured was healers angrily becoming Scorpion from Mortal Kombat screaming "GET OVER HERE!" while using rescue to heal someone xD.

[linay]

All I pictured was healers angrily becoming Scorpion from Mortal Kombat screaming "GET OVER HERE!" while using rescue to heal someone xD.

That...would be awesome to see, but also disaster in the making.