Quote Originally Posted by Shadow_Sama View Post
At the risk of ridicule, I think the next healer down the road is Geomancer. The game hints at the job in several places. The Astrologian quests, the dungeon "The Swallow's Compass", and the Peacock mount they recently introduced. I'm sure there are other subtle hints I'm not pointing out, like Gosetsu and other subtle nods. Considering FFXIV's take on Geomancers being Healers, I deduce that if a new healing job were to be developed, I'd stake my bet on GEO.
I can see where the thoughts for healer can come in, but what about the Swallow's Compass dungeon says "healer"? I wouldn't quite say "14s take on Geomancer being healer" so much as it can equally be seen as a caster like it has been in the rest of the series. I would say if anything, if they meant for Geo to be a healer Swallows Compass and Seiryu would be more healer focused opposed to having nothing in the trial or dungeon being healing related. As well as the founder of Geomancy, Ganen, was not know as a healer but a warlord and conqueror.

I know my view on the Ast story quests aren't a common thought, but why would a healer need us, a fellow healer, to come heal for them. It never says that Kyo is weak or bad at Geomancy, in fact he is quite good at it (or good enough to have school running in Kugane to teach new Geomancer currently. We have no instance or lore of them being a healer, outside placeholder CNJ animations for a story quest encounter. Which Yugiri also had in old story missions (not the same abilities, but a placeholder heal to get through the mission).

As for the topic of the thread:

With the Bozjan storyline available to us, if you dig through the leader's dialogue he talks about how he is a prominent Garlean Medic, who has now defected. I would assume medic would be this game's take on chemist and it wouldn't step on any toes thematically (why take water and wind off of white mage to give it to another healer?) He's also standing next to the npc that talks about Beastmaster being in the game.

Please take this all very lightly! No means of ridicule or anything in any way