Geomancer

[MirronTulaxia]

A class having a heal doesn’t make it a healer though. It has never been a “healer”. Mog’s dance isn’t enough to base a healing class around.

You can give Tifa nothing but Cure materia and we still wouldn’t have reason to make monk a healer.

Could Mystic Knight be a caster? It’s possible. I know your whole thing is about subjectivity and “anything can be anything”. But they won’t add Mystic Knight as a blade enchanting caster role in this game. Red Mage was a terrible tank in XI. Could Rune Fencer stand in the back line with the mages and effectively cast on the boss?

He didn’t want Samurai to be a tank, I wonder why.

1. No job has been a healer outside of White Mage though. Scholar certainly wasn't known for being one. You've suggested Time Mage as a healer, and the only heal it has to its name is Regen. You're just being hypocritical.

2. I mean, outside of Limits I wouldn't consider any job to be something. Though you raise a funny point in that Aerith certainly feels very much like a Geomancer, talking to the planet and such (was even her discussed job class).

3. You miss the point still. Rune Fencer being a Caster would still not be the same thing as a Red Mage. The "job fantasy" is different. You keep reducing jobs to extremely broad generalizations. And in terms of roles when it comes to DPS I don't really think anything should be anything. It's why I made the point about Dancer.

4. Given it was likely intended as a tank in FFXI, it's got precedence. Certainly not like Squall was tank like.