Quote Originally Posted by GucciSan View Post
This is it. This is exactly our point. With how SE wrote CNJ lore, and with how they’ve presented GEO up to this point, you can effectively sum up GEO as “Conjurer, but Japanese”. WHM may lose their elemental attacks but based on the animations of their Cure spells, I’d say they’re water-aspected, like I imagine GEO would probably do. Even Divine Benison is water-aspected. There’s too much overlap to justify them as a healer.


I focus on the Class Fantasy because if you have SMN and SCH both in the same role you have two classes doing the same job in the exact same manner: Summoning to Heal/DPS. These two get away with it because even if the core idea is the same (Summoning) they utilize their core idea in opposite manners (Healing and DPS). Another hypothetical example is having a sniper/musket Ranged Physical. The lore will be different from MCH and they'll have different attacks but at the end of the day they both have similar themes (gun wielding Ranged DPS) and would feel redundant.

WHM and GEO would both heal with the power of nature. If a new player wants the fantasy of a healer using the elements to heal, they could pick CNJ. Adding GEO would give them 2 options, which mind you none of the other roles have, but it wouldn’t really amount much more than “CNJ, but Japanese”.



Disappointment about not getting the Job you want is one thing. Disappointment about getting a Job that’s similar to one we have in the same role would be a whole other level. It's a very realistic thing to keep in mind especially for a company with paying customers so you can't exactly rule it out.
To nail in on this last bit, it would be like someone who is expecting to get a berserker tank when we already have Warrior. Could you argue 13 pages for it, sure. Would they put it in? Eh.