Lightning Mage

[icy_]

Let's name this new concept for a fourth healer that I've seen floating around in various forms: Lightning Mage!

• Wields a hammer
• Heals through the power of lightning (a different direction from BLM damaging lightning)
• Magic Hammer or similar move is a must (ty BLU for this awesome reminder)
• Can borrow from Thor, Zeus and similar lore, but own it in a unique, cuddly, Final Fantasy way

Not sure of specifics, of course. There must be a strong Lightning focus, but if healing doesn't make sense through this "element" then of course I'd be open to Water-based healing. Perhaps Lightning Mage is strong with both lightning and water, and has higher-level (50+) skills that combine the two together for damage, perhaps an AoE in the style of Holy/Gravity/Art of War.

Discuss

[GrimGale]

Let's name this new concept for a fourth healer that I've seen floating around in various forms: Lightning Mage!

• Wields a hammer
• Heals through the power of lightning (a different direction from BLM damaging lightning)
• Magic Hammer or similar move is a must (ty BLU for this awesome reminder)
• Can borrow from Thor, Zeus and similar lore, but own it in a unique, cuddly, Final Fantasy way

Not sure of specifics, of course. There must be a strong Lightning focus, but if healing doesn't make sense through this "element" then of course I'd be open to Water-based healing. Perhaps Lightning Mage is strong with both lightning and water, and has higher-level (50+) skills that combine the two together for damage, perhaps an AoE in the style of Holy/Gravity/Art of War.

Discuss

Lightning is described in lore as the element of cathalysis. An element of transformation, transfer of energy.

I don't see a hammer wielding lightning mage (Thor) as a healer but I could see a mechanomancer, as one.

A class that wears hammers, and has a powerpack on their back, charging up medical turrets with energy and setting down power stations for people in their vicinity to get charged up. I think a tech based class couls potentially use lightning as a healing force.

[Kabooa]

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[icy_]

Lightning is described in lore as the element of cathalysis. An element of transformation, transfer of energy.

I don't see a hammer wielding lightning mage (Thor) as a healer but I could see a mechanomancer, as one.

A class that wears hammers, and has a powerpack on their back, charging up medical turrets with energy and setting down power stations for people in their vicinity to get charged up. I think a tech based class couls potentially use lightning as a healing force.

Hmm, was envisioning more of a harnessing of the world's natural energies instead of tech. Something more positive than what Ramuh stands for, but continuing with sorcery (i.e. plz not an engineer Cid-healer).

[GrimGale]

Hmm, was envisioning more of a harnessing of the world's natural energies instead of tech. Something more positive than what Ramuh stands for, but continuing with sorcery (i.e. plz not an engineer Cid-healer).

Well, harnessing the worlds natural energies is what conjurers or white mages do. So that spot is taken.

[Enkidoh]

Irony is, CNJ originally had access to Thunder spells (along with Fire and Ice too!) in the original release version of FFXIV 1.0 - it was when Jobs were added the class was redesigned and Fire, Ice and Lightning given to THM so as to have it be a better fit for BLM (so as to allow CNJ to be more focused on healing for upgrading to WHM). However CNJ/WHM could still cross-class Thunder even in ARR up til a certain patch removed it. Theoretically I don't see why CNJ/WHM couldn't be given it back, other than reluctance on SE's part.

As for a hammer-wielding class, technically we already have hammers in the game, but they're tools used by BSM and ARM and are not weapons - ignore Gaia in the Eden raids, she was given a hammer purely for the 'coolness' factor by Tetsuya Nomura who was unware that there was not actually a hammer using Disciple of War or Magic class actually in the game, and as NPCs always seem to thumb their noses at the Armoury System (*cough* Raubahn dual-wielding swords *cough* Merlwyb dual-wielding pistols *cough* Rostnsthal dual wielding a pistol in one hand and a single-handed axe in the other! *cough cough*), it doesn't mean a hammer-using class for players is coming alas (of course that doesn't mean it won't ever happen, but it's just unlikely).

[Allegor]

As someone who mained elemental shaman in WoW, I admit being a little disappointed there's only one lightning based spell among the casters, and it's a DoT at that.

We have enough mage healers. I'd like a healer that isn't a mage at all.


Four: Thunder 1/3, Thunder 2/4, Verthunder, Verthunder 2

I counted Thunder I-IV as the same spell since they're upgrades and mutually exclusive, but yeah I forgot Verthunder/II.

[Rongway]

We have enough mage healers. I'd like a healer that isn't a mage at all.

As someone who mained elemental shaman in WoW, I admit being a little disappointed there's only one lightning based spell among the casters, and it's a DoT at that.

Four: Thunder 1/3, Thunder 2/4, Verthunder, Verthunder 2