Geomancer

[Seraphor]

We're in a dire need of improvements to the current healers, not a fourth healer. There are games that are fine with only 2 healing classes since those classes (or jobs here) are well designed - they have a certain challenge and complexity to them. I would rather not have 4 healing jobs that are bland and boring and essentially almost carbon copies of each other, I would rather have 3 jobs that have their own individual well thought out designs- if that means waiting several expansions for a 4th healer- I have no problem at all with it.

That's nice, but many do want a new healer, and just like tanks, it might take adding a new healer to shake up their current healer format enough to introduce those changes that would give us more interesting and fun healers to play.
Healers are currently stifled by the shield/regen dichotomy. We have a regen healer, a shield healer, and a wildcard to fill in the gap. A fourth healer necessitates tearing down that dichotomy, just like a fourth tank got rid of the MT/OT meta.

[IDontPetLalas]

That's nice, but many do want a new healer, and just like tanks, it might take adding a new healer to shake up their current healer format enough to introduce those changes that would give us more interesting and fun healers to play.
Healers are currently stifled by the shield/regen dichotomy. We have a regen healer, a shield healer, and a wildcard to fill in the gap. A fourth healer necessitates tearing down that dichotomy, just like a fourth tank got rid of the MT/OT meta.

There's that crucial word "might". I would indeed have no objection IF the introduction of a fourth healer did in fact force the development team to take a good hard look at the current healers. That would be a fantastic outcome.

I am however definitely against adding a fourth healer if the development team just listens to those who are let's say- bored? Those who may have maxed out their jobs and running out of alts to level? No, I want the dev team to integrate any new healer if any only if intelligent design changes are made to the current healers as well to keep all of them interesting to play and balanced at all levels.