Would you rather healers get more complex healing kits or more complex DPS kits?

[ty_taurus]

Pretty sure they mentioned it during the EW keynotes, not ShB. But yes, nothing ever came out of it.

It almost seems like there were more plans to deviate a little more with the healer formula that was ultimately canceled by the time the media tour rolled around. Yoshi P's description of Sage doesn't match the Sage we have as he described being able to generate a barrier through Kardia that would, when broken, generate a DPS resource, basically. I feel like Toxikon and Toxikon II were intended to be separate actions since Toxikon's animation was in the teaser (the skill Alphinaud used against the fiend in the beginning of the EW trailer), it was shown off in the Benchmark which has only ever shown max level animations except for Toxikon, and Alphinaud still uses it in the EW MSQ instance as well for some reason.

I also recall a statement about specifically not giving each healer AoE a stun to keep White Mage's stun unique, but that the other healers would get something else that would be adjacent to stun in some way, though I don't think they specified if would be on their AoEs. Things like how Celestial Opposition used to inflict stun, for example, might've been a possibility based on that statement. And I recall the description of Liturgy being that it provides a buff, not that it heals.

[Raikai]

It almost seems like there were more plans to deviate a little more with the healer formula that was ultimately canceled by the time the media tour rolled around. Yoshi P's description of Sage doesn't match the Sage we have as he described being able to generate a barrier through Kardia that would, when broken, generate a DPS resource, basically. I feel like Toxikon and Toxikon II were intended to be separate actions since Toxikon's animation was in the teaser (the skill Alphinaud used against the fiend in the beginning of the EW trailer), it was shown off in the Benchmark which has only ever shown max level animations except for Toxikon, and Alphinaud still uses it in the EW MSQ instance as well for some reason.

I also recall a statement about specifically not giving each healer AoE a stun to keep White Mage's stun unique, but that the other healers would get something else that would be adjacent to stun in some way, though I don't think they specified if would be on their AoEs. Things like how Celestial Opposition used to inflict stun, for example, might've been a possibility based on that statement. And I recall the description of Liturgy being that it provides a buff, not that it heals.

Interesting. Makes me wonder if Toxikon I was meant for single target (and II for AoE) and it was meant to be more integrated with Sage's rotation...Honestly, the way Sage was 'sold' before the media tour almost gave the impression that it would be the 'option' with a more meaty dps rotation, much like Gunbreaker is for the Tanks.

[Aravell]

It almost seems like there were more plans to deviate a little more with the healer formula that was ultimately canceled by the time the media tour rolled around. Yoshi P's description of Sage doesn't match the Sage we have as he described being able to generate a barrier through Kardia that would, when broken, generate a DPS resource, basically. I feel like Toxikon and Toxikon II were intended to be separate actions since Toxikon's animation was in the teaser (the skill Alphinaud used against the fiend in the beginning of the EW trailer), it was shown off in the Benchmark which has only ever shown max level animations except for Toxikon, and Alphinaud still uses it in the EW MSQ instance as well for some reason.

It does seem like SGE was scrapped and rushed out at the last minute tbh. Surely they wouldn't send out a new job that's about 80% similar to an existing job? But then again, they did approve the DRK rework, so who really knows?