Geomancer

[MirronTulaxia]

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1. Whether they had stories or not doesn't change that people had expectations about how those jobs would work.

2. Lore, as I keep saying, is ultimately pointless because the design team isn't beholden to lore at all.

3. To you we are on year three. All I see is they are mages. Of the one legitimate canon Geomancer ally they have all of three abilities, one of them being a healing spell. I wouldn't call it conclusive.

4. I see the same things you see. Same "evidence". But to you what you call "conclusive" I say is still lacking.

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1. You write it off because you are beholden to your opinions of what is and is not similar to a job without looking at it from a less biased standpoint.

2. I agree. None of them have thematic overlap. Geomancer has none with White Mage either though.

3. There isn't much to gain to you. You keep pushing your opinion of what is and isn't valid for Geomancer based off of your own feelings on the matter.

4. Using datamined info from 1.0 is really flawed. Are Conjurers still DPS specialists with six elements while Thaumaturges are light/dark healers? Do Arcanists use trap staves (or whatever they wound up being called)? Do we have Shephards? Musketeers? No. None of that is accurate. 1.0 was ages ago. The game has changed from then. Conjurers have changed from then. White Mages changed just this expansion.

5. Because neither White Mage or Geomancer serve the same purpose. If the only thing that saves Geomancer from being the same as White Mage is a different role then it shouldn't be added. Plain and simple. If Geomancer is that shallow, which is what you are ultimately saying, that it can't stand on its own legs, then it isn't fitting to be added. I have a higher opinion of Geomancer than you.

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1. Feel free to provide evidence. The only time I recall another Caster DPS being discussed was a Mystic/Onmyouji, not a Geomancer. If you can't cite where they said "we planned on adding Geomancer as a Caster" specifically then this isn't a valid point. Though even then they've discussed adding jobs in the past in different ways that didn't pan out, but I honestly haven't found specifically Geomancer being mentioned. I dug into this for another forum and what I found was Mystic.