More Healing (specific) Classes

[Onisake]

The game being limited to one (1) healing class is a bad thing in the long run. This is the same mentality that people were trying to use to see PLD get more use, when the right answer was creating a roster of tanks. We also need a roster of healers.

you can do that without having a main healer. see my examples? it improves the roster and improves healing, but doesn't compete with WHMs slot on a team. you're going to want both. that's a far better alternative. it improves the 'team' mentality and shakes things up a bit. i don't want another main healing class. i never said whm should be the only one with heals.

if all you want is another back-up healer bring a PLD. they have a high MND stat and should have access to all the CNJ abilities. problem solved. they can double as a tank on the sidelines. build up hate with cures and run in when needed to kite or w/e.

simply having another main healer reminds me of SMN in FFXI. felt so bad for that class as they didn't really get to do what they really wanted in fights: smn. they were just spamming cures. and occasionally throwing out a buff. i don't want to see that happen again. make the classes unique and enhance each other. not replace.

[Duelle]

you can do that without having a main healer. see my examples? it improves the roster and improves healing, but doesn't compete with WHMs slot on a team.

And again, no class or job should hog a role slot. PLD should not be the only tank. WHM should not be the only healer. You can build off different styles of healing so that people who perhaps don't like WHM but may enjoy how Green Mage heals have an option and it encourages them to take the mantle of the healer. This in effect increases the healer pool, which is a good thing.

if all you want is another back-up healer bring a PLD.

Don't burden the tank with having to heal. They already have enough to worry about.

simply having another main healer reminds me of SMN in FFXI. felt so bad for that class as they didn't really get to do what they really wanted in fights: smn. they were just spamming cures. and occasionally throwing out a buff. i don't want to see that happen again.

That's more due to SMN's completely garbage design and the developers' fears of it being super OP under any other circumstances. SMN's woes had absolutely nothing to do with having multiple healing classes in a game.

Regulated heals. HoTs. Smart heals. Burst heals. There's plenty of room for different types of healers, you just have to look for yourself.

Well at any rate, Im sure the first thing they will do is add rdm. I was kinda hoping it would be more of a melee class, but jobs never turn out how we hoped. After all, Ninja was never suppose to be a tank, and DNC was suppose to be a healer not a solo job, lol.

That's due to developer apathy. Any other developer team would have used CoP as an excuse to rebuild Red Mage and nerf Utsusemi to the ground. And DNC would have been adjusted until it was where it was intended to be by the devs.

And I hope they introduce Fencer, and make it the parent class for Red Mage.