Quote Originally Posted by ty_taurus View Post
I hate this mentality more than anything else in this game.

Should League of Legends not make new champions because the current pool isn't 100% balanced? Should Pokemon stop introducing new Pokemon just because the power tiers are so drastically divided?

Not only is it an awful idea to repeatedly deny the healing player base access to more options just because the current ones aren't in perfect harmony, adding a 4th healer actually would make balancing easier. With more options comes more opportunities for different healer pairs to complement each other in different ways, meaning there are more combinations to consider that can potentially compete with one another for the status of "optimal." It was literally one of the reasons Square gave for why Gunbreaker was made a tank, so it would be easier for all tanks to thrive rather than always have a 3rd wheel that felt left out.

Sadly, the issue isn't balancing. Arguably healers are currently better balanced, but SE aren't doing a very good job with keeping the healers feeling unique due to homogenisation and aren't keeping them fun, the changes over the last couple of expansions has resulted in many healer complaints. I wanted a 4th healer this time around and hoped for it to be Dancer, as somebody who now mains Dancer & as a former healer main, I am glad they didn't, because it'd be the same hot mess as the healer job I left to go play DNC.

If it was a balancing issue then I'd be with you. Given after the announcement we weren't getting a 4th healer yet I made the same argument "it could help out balancing issues".

As for desires for next healer job. Geomancy is a potential one I'd get behind, though I think they're tied lorewise to CNJ? Maybe too close. But eh, that wouldn't bother me.

I'd also like "Chemist" but taking my friend's idea, have them be called "Medicus" instead and be a Garlean-based job. Follow under the footsteps of Chemist in other FF titles, but have more of a tech aesthetic and tie in with a Garlean theme to make it appropriate. All of our healers are currently magic based, so a tech-based one could be interesting. We have a tech-based DPS, just got a tech-based tank, so why not a tech-based healer too?