A summary of healer issues

[Liam_Harper]

Honestly it is frustrating how SE thinks healers MUST be disciple of magic and it will only restrict them with further healing jobs.

I think the biggest problem is lack of creativity and playing too safe. They admitted they gave up on Chemist because they weren't able to think of a working design for a non-magic healer. Since they don't even have a healer designer, there's no room to think outside the box and be imaginative. This is why even Sage is a semi-SCH clone with a fancy coat of paint and it's sort of sad to see some players lapping it up and claiming it's entirely different.

[ToodlesElNoodles]

Though, I always imagined that the CHM could’ve been an Allagan based class that uses aetherochemistry for heavy buffing. I’m just wondering what Japanese pop-culture it could be based on (considering RPR is Bloodborne and SGE is Gundam, I feel like looking at pop-culture could be a pretty strong indicator on what the dev team might work on next).

A melee centric healer that was an absolute blast to play.

Are FF14 healers ready to accept a melee healer? I looked up past forum posts on the topic and...it was not pretty.

[Saefinn]

Are FF14 healers ready to accept a melee healer? I looked up past forum posts on the topic and...it was not pretty.

A shame because DNC was seen as the potential for such a concept and I know I was digging it (but I still love what we got anyway). FFXI DNC was a melee job that could tank, DPS and heal and most of the speculations for an FFXIV DNC went to the healing aspect. It even used TP to heal. Though you'd not normally have it as a main healer, though I have been in a couple of parties where it was. And our static leader would tank with it sometimes.

I think similar concepts could be FFXIV-ified and kinda cool, but unlikely...especially as I sincerely doubt we'd get another healer.