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[BasicBlake]

Back in HW, it's clear that they were entertaining the idea of Mix being used for various different effects, seeing as that's what AST ending up doing with it's cards.
However, they've since done a u-turn on that healer stance by removing all of those card effects.

This is the problem I see with all of these Chemist ideas lately, they keep using the Mix mechanic for various different buffs, debuffs and DPS skills. That isn't going to work and isn't going to happen.

However, there's plenty of scope for a Mix like mechanic to give us a new and unique healing mechanic, with absolutely nothing to do with buffs or debuffs.
This is the concept I've put in my Chemist idea, linked in my sig.
Essentially, you use oGCD skills to combine three different qualities on the job gauge, these are then applied to your 'special' heal (think Aspected Benefic/Aldoquium)
Use a Regen mix, your next heal has a regen, use a Shield mix, your next heal as a shield, use a potency mix and your next heal has a higher potency, use both and the heal has both a Regen and a Shield.
This is essentially combining the ability AST has to use either Regens or Shields, with the concept of SCH's Emergency Tactics, an oGCD that modifies their special heal Adloquium.

This would create a core signature healing kit that is unique, so not just another WHM clone.
It breaks down the Regen/Shield dichotomy which frankly has to happen if we're to get any new healer. (combine this with giving WHM a party shield, SCH an extra regen and making AST's CO do the opposite of the stance it's in)
And I can't see this mechanic fitting any more perfectly that it does for Chemist, it's literally forming combinations of qualities, it is still in all respects a 'Mix' mechanic.

I also think Chemist has to be a healer if we're to get it. It's the only other job/class besides WHM that has actually been a healer canonically.
Time Mage and Astrologer weren't healers before, and neither was Scholar, just as the only canon tank class before was Paladin.

This is why I am convinced we are going to get Chemist or a Chemist trope come 6.0 as a healer. It's been shown as an actual healer in previous games, it doesn't step on any toes thematically (This is very important to the dev team).

Breaking down the Regen/Shield split I think is a top priority when it comes to a new healer. Which baffles my mind when people want Geomancer to be a healer when it shares similarities to white mage and people are all "B A R R I E R". So you got another white mage scholar combo, congrats healers, can't wait to watch you guys complain for the next 6 year until another healer is released. (So you guys get another whm/sch combo and you have reduced geomancer to a 3 spell whammy for dps, sounds fantastic......)

Also, the Dev team has been very good about implementing things that did not work out at the time. Samurai melee was pushed back but ultimately released, Viera was pushed back from HW and now we have them, Chemist was supposed to come with HW but was pushed back. And then finally we were supposed to get an Eastern Caster with Stormblood that they couldn't get right in time (But we sure did get a lot of eastern caster themes in the whole expansion).

I will be very interested to see if we get to see Bajsaljen in action with the Bozjan Front, or if not him, other medics he has trained.