Geomancer

[BasicBlake]

There should be a Healer and a Caster coming. But Geomancer theoretically could be either. Or maybe it just doesn't show up at all.

I wouldn’t see why it would come as a healer since the lore we have for them as well as established enemies are all caster.

[MirronTulaxia]

I wouldn’t see why it would come as a healer since the lore we have for them as well as established enemies are all caster.

The lore we have for them has them compared to Astrologians, and the NPC Geomancer we have was close to being a variant White Mage. As well enemies tend to be... well, offensive, you don't (for good reason) see much in the way of dedicated healers.

I'm not saying it will be a healer. Just that I wouldn't write it off so soon.

[BasicBlake]

The lore we have for them has them compared to Astrologians, and the NPC Geomancer we have was close to being a variant White Mage. As well enemies tend to be... well, offensive, you don't (for good reason) see much in the way of dedicated healers.

I'm not saying it will be a healer. Just that I wouldn't write it off so soon.

In this regard, they are compared to AST because they draw power from star(s), and Kyokohu is using placeholder conjurer animations. Enemies tend to be offensive when they are coded to be offensive or the class is! If you look at thaumaturge enemies versus conjurer enemies, the conjurer ones always use Cure/Ronkan Cure.

The lorebook goes more into how Hien's father dispatched groups of Geomancers and shinobi to bring down airships, as well as Ganen learning the school of magic from Tengu. In all of Ganen's story and lore he wasn't said to being Yanxia together by healing his way through the fields. So there is a bit more lore, you just have to pay or it. haha

[SeikishiYuuki]

Also the relation to GEO and AST, Kyo calls Astrologians divination the foil to Geomancers fortune telling. Foil being to contrast...one using the stars and their connection the other using the earthly leylines...not that they're both healing or really much of the sort. The comparison to CNJ is that both use Wind Water and Earth as their primary elemental aethers... The reason he uses CNJ animation is they're tied to the 1.0 weapon he has likely cause Geo was originally meant as CNJ DPS job, like SMN and SCH. Sure you could argue he has a healing spell, but so does a Ninja npc, Monk NPC...and like 4 others...

[MirronTulaxia]

Also the relation to GEO and AST, Kyo calls Astrologians divination the foil to Geomancers fortune telling. Foil being to contrast...one using the stars and their connection the other using the earthly leylines...not that they're both healing or really much of the sort. The comparison to CNJ is that both use Wind Water and Earth as their primary elemental aethers... The reason he uses CNJ animation is they're tied to the 1.0 weapon he has likely cause Geo was originally meant as CNJ DPS job, like SMN and SCH. Sure you could argue he has a healing spell, but so does a Ninja npc, Monk NPC...and like 4 others...

I mean, there has been a dedicated healing Ninja in the past (Izayoi), and Monks do have Chakra. But my point is just that they have pointed out connections to other healing jobs. Could they be a Caster? Definitely. My point is that they could be a Healer too. So far nothing rules them out as one.

[BasicBlake]

I mean, there has been a dedicated healing Ninja in the past (Izayoi), and Monks do have Chakra. But my point is just that they have pointed out connections to other healing jobs. Could they be a Caster? Definitely. My point is that they could be a Healer too. So far nothing rules them out as one.

He is talking about FFXIV though. In certain missions people like Yugiri get some form of heal to help you along through the quest, not talking about setting the precedent for a dedicated ninja healer. The astro quest lines did talk about how they had some similarities, but nowhere in the game or books compared Geomancer to conjurer, that is purely player talk on the forums. Levava has spent how many expansions now, and Eorzea years around conjurers and white mages, yet she refers to Kyokohu's school of magic as it's own. Not as a Far Eastern Conjurer, and not as an offshoot of Astrologians.

Could they make this the first ever healing Geomancer? Yes. Would it be dumb, also yes.

[MirronTulaxia]

He is talking about FFXIV though. In certain missions people like Yugiri get some form of heal to help you along through the quest, not talking about setting the precedent for a dedicated ninja healer. The astro quest lines did talk about how they had some similarities, but nowhere in the game or books compared Geomancer to conjurer, that is purely player talk on the forums. Levava has spent how many expansions now, and Eorzea years around conjurers and white mages, yet she refers to Kyokohu's school of magic as it's own. Not as a Far Eastern Conjurer, and not as an offshoot of Astrologians.

Could they make this the first ever healing Geomancer? Yes. Would it be dumb, also yes.

I never said they were a Far Eastern Conjurer. I'm quite positive it's a separate thing from the rest. My point is simply that there is enough to say "they could be something else". From a more meta standpoint the change of White Mage makes me suspect it as well. And it wouldn't be "dumb" just because you like something else.