Whats with the chemist obsession?

[dustdjinn]

So I have been reading the job guesses and most make sense: Geomancer, Beastmaster...etc those guesses have large amount of hints and references in game or in interviews but people are really excited about Chemist. Did I miss a mention in game or an interview?

[Edax]

So I have been reading the job guesses and most make sense: Geomancer, Beastmaster...etc those guesses have large amount of hints and references in game or in interviews but people are really excited about Chemist. Did I miss a mention in game or an interview?

/joking Some people just really want to roleplay as Walter White.

[Enla]

Mostly because a lot of people want a non-magic healer and Chemist was incredibly fun in FFX-2, which is the version most people remember.

[Esmoire]

• Healer that's not magic
• Can probably bring the Mix command, a series staple seen on characters like Rikku
• Chemists are cute
• Chemist/Salvemaker is one of the most broken jobs in series history and people have fond memories of them
• We really want to see healers shaken up, literally and figuratively
• There's a lot of possible weapons for them, and all of them would be fresh and welcome additions

[DrWho2010]

nostalgia for FF Tactics and Rikku's Mix job action in FFX.

[AduroT]

• We really want to see healers shaken up, literally and figuratively

Definitely not stirred.

[Melichoir]

I just think itd be cool to be a mad scientist concocting stuff and throwing it at people.

[dustdjinn]

I just think itd be cool to be a mad scientist concocting stuff and throwing it at people.

Cool people wanting it is fine but I was just making sure I wasn't missing a teaser for something.

[Tsalmaveth]

No, there's been no teaser, though it has been talked about enough that YoshiP is aware of it due to interviews and so on.

My desire for Chemist is that I do not want a reskinned CNJ(hi Geomancer) and want something fresh, new and DIFFERENT for Healers as a Healer main. We've had to wait and I'd really REALLY like for it to be worth it.

I also want the Chemist to use a gun because... then the Trifecta would be COMPLETE. Gun Tank, Gun DPS and Gun Healer. (That and I'd love to shoot people healthy so so badly... it would help the levels of salt I have acquired over the years as a healer. Just... please.)

[Gemina]

nostalgia for FF Tactics and Rikku's Mix job action in FFX.

I vaguely remember both, which means for me it hardly left an impression. Definitely not enough to want it as much as I wanted DNC to be a new healer back in SB. I lean more towards it being players wanting to - for lack of a better word, 'mix' it up in the healing role.

There's only so much you can mix up though, and honestly seems like a pipe dream when you consider how much healers have been homogenized. If Chemist was released tomorrow, it would be subject to the same constrictions the other three healers face. Still, it's not a bad thing to theory craft and play around with the idea of it, or any new job. Chemist just happens to be one of several jobs SE could possibly introduce at some point.