Why does everyone want Chemist as a new job?

[TitaniumVulpes]

On the other hand if they're not doing anything special with role gear for the current "odd jobs" then I don't expect chemist would get a lot of attention either.

Honestly, like I said, Chemist/Apothecary wouldn't be an odd job. It would be on the same aesthetic level as Scholar, which is the current odd job. I mean, look at the HW SCH gear - that was quite obviously originally, at least in part, a Chemist design. It doesn't even have the mortar board hat like all of the other SCH artifacts and... those gloves, all the weird tubes... There's no doubt in my mind that was an Ishgardian Chemist set concept that they liked too much to just scrap when they replaced the job with AST. After all, Ishgardian Scholasticates don't wear the military-style gear of Nymian Scholars - they do wear robes. If it was purely an Ishgardian-style Scholar set, it would have been a robe.

It would, ideally, even out the Healer gear aesthetic between robes for WHM/AST and fancy jackets and chunky boots for SCH/CHM(APO?). Of course you'd be free to use the robes on your SCH, just as an AST would be free to use the medic-style gear, but there would at least be that choice. All we really have for the "combat medic" aesthetic right now, outside SCH artifacts, is the Baelsar's Wall set and the Arboretum HM set (which is just the Baelsar's gear shuffled around a little).

[Anienai]

Why does everyone want Chemist as a new job?

Imagine a pair of fine tuned ROE arms launching a heal pot at a party member's head. Brings back memories of dodgeball with a soccerball at recess.

That's just my idea of chemist.

[xxvaynxx]

The mixing mechanics would be tough for a healer.
Imagine all your powerful insta heals are locked bhind it and a tank buster is about to rekt your tank.
Class would almost never been a main healer that's for sure.
Having to do a mudra mechanic as a healer would be too much pressure when you're the person that needs to keep the party alive.

[RitsukoSonoda]

People wanting chemist I feel like is a result of a few things.

1. People want a new healer job.
2. People want a different style of healer job.
3. People have much nostalgia for the first FF Tactics game.

Me IMO because Chemist was reliant on consumable items I would personally go with something based on the Flintlock from FFTA2 that supported party members via special cannon shells fired from their handcannon. (I also always found healer classes that healed partymembers or team mates by shooting them was humorous.)

[Fukuro]

Why we want chemist?
This is why:

[Controller]

Be funny if they gave you this job BUT you don't throw potions at people. You just throw it in the air and it heals. I'd lol.

[myahele]

I want to shoot people in order to heal them

[Enla]

Be funny if they gave you this job BUT you don't throw potions at people. You just throw it in the air and it heals. I'd lol.

I'd cry. :< Let me heal people with shards of glass Square!

[BasicBlake]

Out of all the jobs that have been seen in the FF series they could still use:

• Oracle
• Devout
• Sage
• Geomancer
• Songstress (Only because FF14 lacks a dedicated support role. Though you could make a case for it being another Ranged DPS like Dancer.)
• Chemist/Salve Maker
• And if they REALLY want to be trolls they could pull from Bravely Default's Merchant class because it does have healing mechanics. (IT HAS A SKILL CALLED BIG PHARMA)

There's a few others that can also heal (I'd die of laughter if they gave us Mime as a healer) and a few of these overlap with existing classes. Due to the overlap Chemist and Geomancer are the most likely, though Geomancer currently has a lore overlap with Astrologian in 14.

I don’t think Oracle or Geomancer have ever been a healer in a single Final Fantasy game though. With the caster gear from the Ivalice raids even being the Oracle’s gear from tactics in look and name.

I never played some of the tactics knock offs but isn’t Devout just Whm+?

I think the only option we have left that isn’t “actually a caster” or just steps all over the toes thematically in the role is Chemist.

Also I wouldn’t count on the “lore overlap” of Geomancer and Astrologian because the only thing they have in common is drawing power from a “star”. Levava herself even refers to the classes as a foil to one another.

[Enla]

I don’t think Oracle or Geomancer have ever been a healer in a single Final Fantasy game though. With the caster gear from the Ivalice raids even being the Oracle’s gear from tactics in look and name.

I never played some of the tactics knock offs but isn’t Devout just Whm+?

I think the only option we have left that isn’t “actually a caster” or just steps all over the toes thematically in the role is Chemist.

Also I wouldn’t count on the “lore overlap” of Geomancer and Astrologian because the only thing they have in common is drawing power from a “star”. Levava herself even refers to the classes as a foil to one another.

Oracle was a mixed healing and damage job in FFV actually. And Geomancer was part healer/support in FFXI.
And yes Devout is basically just better WHM, which is why I mentioned the overlap between existing classes. Really that list is just mentioning all the jobs that could fit the new healer, while fully acknowledging that only two would really work.