Healers Deserve a Male Mascot

[DamianFatale]

Men heal too. Healing is not just a job for women.

Square Enix should make the official art for the next healer a man. Yeah, I know that they are using that Viera girl for sage, but it would be really nice if they didn't.

MMOs need to let go of this idea that men are tanks/dps, and women are healers. Thankfully this game doesn't do it with the dps, but the heal sl00t stereotype for women still remains, and more mmos need better diversity in this regard.

[Shibi]

Square Enix should make the official art for the next healer a man.

Alphi is the face of the new Sage, isn't he? I know he's not a man at his tender age, but still.

[Aldora]

Alphi is the face of the new Sage, isn't he? I know he's not a man at his tender age, but still.

It was the same with Astrologian when the Shadowbringers trailer was released. Urianger filled that spot.



Damian was specifically referring to the artwork they released for Sage.



While it might be true that the artwork for healers usually show females characters, they also show in-game renders of the job which in this case was a male Lalafell. The Job trailer itself was a male Miqo'te. So, we can't say that there is no "male representation" for healers. Personally, i don't really care. The artwork always looks cool.

[Penthea]

I can't believe OP forgot about big dress Urianger.

[Duskane]

I normally go by this pic for "mascots" its a bit better spread out for races
just have to wait till its updated with sage and new melee

also the reveal was a with a male miqote
again
every expansion has reveled a job with male miqote
MCH,RDM,GNB and now Sage

[DamianFatale]

It was the same with Astrologian when the Shadowbringers trailer was released. Urianger filled that spot.



Damian was specifically referring to the artwork they released for Sage.



While it might be true that the artwork for healers usually show females characters, they also show in-game renders of the job which in this case was a male Lalafell. The Job trailer itself was a male Miqo'te. So, we can't say that there is no "male representation" for healers. Personally, i don't really care. The artwork always looks cool.

I meant in the job icons. Like when you're running palace of the dead. All of the heals are female. They are also all female on the job page.

I'm not saying the game isn't fine as is, I just wish we had a little bit more diversity.

[Chie_M]

I meant in the job icons. Like when you're running palace of the dead. All of the heals are female. They are also all female on the job page.

I'm not saying the game isn't fine as is, I just wish we had a little bit more diversity.

The only noticeably female POTD sprite is DNC...

[Asari5]

tbh i dont really get your point.... if you enjoy healing.... play healer.... if not... play something else. What does it have to do with gender?

[Iscah]

I think there's plenty of representation in-game. You don't see those official art images often at all, but you do see multiple male healer characters in trailers, and all available trust healers are male as well.

The Viera-as-sage image is sort of in the middle because it's a female healer, but the specific healer style doesn't look all that feminine.

[Aldora]

I meant in the job icons. Like when you're running palace of the dead. All of the heals are female. They are also all female on the job page.

I'm not saying the game isn't fine as is, I just wish we had a little bit more diversity.

The only noticeably female POTD sprite is DNC...

I have to agree with Chie here. Only the DNC is noticeably female with the PotD / HoH sprites. If you look at the Job guide, then yes, only females are being used for the Healers. Then again, only males are used for Tanks.

To me, it's just artwork. What you see in-game is a better representation then a few pieces of artwork. Every player will decide for themselves which role they want to fill. As it should be.