Hypothetical weapons for a new healer

[ty_taurus]

Most still want a physical healer like Chemist for example. But Idk, they should rather rigid on their stance with healers have a magical fantasy. Yes SGE isn't magic magic but still uses aether as a main focus of casting.

A MCH like healer with a grenade launcher would be cool.

If they ever wanted to do a BRD like aesthetic, we have Songstress (X-II), but that would be too similar.

Geomancer with bell/hammer but I have a strong feeling that it'll be caster dps instead.

They were allegedly had a concept for an Onmyoji-like caster. They could do that or a shaman/priest type of healer with talismans being the weapon. Kind of like Kiriko from Overwatch (who is also a healer).

And since nature white mage is sorta dead. They could do a druid healer with totems and earth related spells.

I would totally be open to seeing a physical healer and a magical tank, but at this stage, I think the changes are virtually non-existent--not 0, but close enough. Back during HW, I was really hoping 4.0 would've brought Dancer as a melee, physical TP healer and Blue Mage as a magical tank, and later Geomancer as a magical tank during SB, and those were all somewhat popular desires on the forums back then. You'd add in two new gearsets to match those categories, something like an -of Rejuvenating and -of Warding for physical healers and magical tanks respectively, and you could further develop those categories in the future when more tanks and healers were added. But at this stage, it just doesn't seem likely. Even if they did add new gear categories that just were reskinned versions of other sets, and thus no additional work for character modelers, it would still add a significantly larger selection of items which would ultimately accelerate the weight on the server load over time.

That said, you could do something clever like give the job a trait that converts Mind into Dexterity, for example, for the "flavor" of a physical healer, but it might still not sit well with the developers to have a physical healer gathering mind or a magical tank gathering strength.