Thread: 7.0 Poster Class

Originally Posted by Seraphor

GEO wouldn't need to be too similar to CNJ or AST if it was a Magical DPS Job rather than a healer. Which is how it should be anyway, more in line with Yanxian Geomancy, and with a focus on ground effects and positional based mechanics, using Wind and Water elemental spells. We have yet to have any serious Water spell representation outside of BLU.
An alternative that would carry over many of the same themes and aesthetics could be Onmyoji.

The geomancer we have in the game uses conjurer assets and the NPC even uses a CNJ wand. The lore book also says outright that geomancy is a combination of conjury and astromancy and there's a whole plot point that using Astrologian healing spells intertwines with geomancy. If they're not supposed to be a healer, or even if they are and they're introduced as a playable job, I'd imagine there would need to be some retconning in the AST questline considering the whole SB part was set up to show how it's the eastern version of AST.

Onmyojutsu is in the lore book as being the eastern version of thaumaturgy, where their magic is all about balancing umbral and astral magic exactly like a THM or BLM.


Considering we're probably not going to get any healers, probably not going to get anything from a previous FF, not going to get anything too similar as something else per the interview quotes I posted, and probably not getting a new pet job considering how those have been greatly diminished, we're not likely to get either of these.