Geomancer

[MirronTulaxia]

Then why wasn't Ganen a healer, why isn't Seiryu a healer, why aren't the tengu healers? why don't the Geomancer spirits in both dungeons cast heal? One heal does not a healer make. With that line of thinking Red Mages are healers, Yugiri would have ended up a healer, Gauis would be a healer, Summoner would be a healer. I see where you are coming from, but his Qi of Water doesn't solidify it as a healer. We don't know how Kyokohu's great grandfather was keeping the barrier up, we really don't know if it was barrier magic or healing. But where at storywise outside of Qi of Water does it say they heal?

As far as I am aware every lore character that is a certain Final Fantasy class in this game operates as the rest of the classes. The conjurers heal, the marauders axe, the gladiators tank, the thaumaturges cast. We don't have a bunch of Paladin healers despite them having a heal, etc.

While white mage is moving away from the elemental aspects from the looks of it, there are still conjurers in the game and roulettes, and everything below level 72 IF they made geomancer healer, you would be seeing two elemental healers around, that doesn't seem redundant or lazy to you? And trust me I am aware of the fact that they can make classes do whatever they want. But we current have two classes in the game that are Wind, Water and Stone "masters", why put them in the same slot? Having two classes who's main focus is the same three elements (granted one is only from 1-72 currently, but that is SEVENTY TWO levels)... they step on eachother's class fantasy too much to heal alongside eachother.

You guys are literally saying “Hey I know we have had a Wind, Water and Stone healer for almost 11 years now. How about..... another one....? I know we haven’t gotten a healer since AST. But what if.... we got another nature themed healer after waiting this long”

I know I’m not a healer main, but waiting 2+ expansions for another healer to get something that even is remotely similar to something to the point where the lore book compares them to far eastern conjurers... I would feel so cheated.

I mean, again, this is all personal opinion on how similar they are. I don't see them as the same job. That you do to me says you're just boiling down a job to the elements and that's it. The aesthetics and everything else is very different.

Again, as for NPCs they almost never are healers. Look at Lakshmi. She's basically the healer summon and she barely does any healing. And that's a summon that should be extremely focused on it. That even she only has a couple moments where she does it right at the beginning really speaks volumes about how rare healing is for enemies. The exception, again, is when the enemy is basically a beast tribe or otherwise meant to emulate specific jobs. Given that there isn't even a Geomancer job currently to emulate there isn't much that can be done with that.

Edit: Actually, I have a very good counter to the "healers must heal" bit. The Knights of the Round. Two of their number are Conjurers. From what I can tell they don't do any healing. We know what their jobs are after all. If Healers are supposed to heal then why don't they?