NEW HEALER IDEA

[ty_taurus]

Necromancers do not restore life though, they take it and abuse it. It would be more in theme with Necromancer to rip the skeletons from their fallen comrades to animate as an undead army. That's why Necromancer as healer doesn't work, because Necromancer is defined by the defiling of the dead. A job that is restoring life through dark arts is something completely different. *cough* Arcanist/Scholar *cough*.

[rawker]

Ehhh. just to remind you.. reviving the dead is a form of necromancy...

[Allegor]

Ehhh. just to remind you.. reviving the dead is a form of necromancy...

We never canonically 'revived' anyone though. When we reach 0 hp, we're only knocked unconscious (as do the great majority of npcs we fight for that matter, so even our own body count is debatably smaller than we think). The infamous Haurchefant scene, and to an extend Y'shtola in SB, shows that we can't even heal fatal wounds.

A caster that communes with the spirits of the dead is easily doable imo, but it'd be closer to a shaman. A caster that raises, let alone manipulate corpses is a hard no.

[benji42]

I kind of had a similar idea to this a while ago
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets...t?usp=drivesdk

Although I think there's a lot of problems with it now, I thought it was cool at the time.

[Supersnow845]

Can I ask why anyone genuinely wants a new healer in the design space when we spent 6 years waiting for a new one already and got………..~~not~~ SCH

Is lore and aesthetics really worth being able to equip reaper gear so you can press bone throw 4 the entire encounter while pressing 2 red themed heals a minute

[ForsakenRoe]

Well, we're working on the assumption that SE would actually have a unique design for it, because if we assume 'they'll just copypaste X job' the whole time, we might as well just pack it all up, every job from here on out is a copy of something else. Can even extend it to the DPS, Viper is GNB but as a DPS, and Picto is SMN 2.

Assuming that SE were to be 'creative' (as in, CREATIVE Business Unit III), the aesthetics can guide the design and gameplay somewhat. As an example, if you write Necromancer as 'manipulating life energies' rather than 'spooky skeleton commander', then you can have things like RPR's Soul Slice, which fills it's gauge by 50, but on a Healer. If your ally is dying and you need to give them some 'life energy' (or whatever spooky name it has in the lore) to keep them in the fight, why not tear it from the enemy, and weaken them in the process? Have a gameplay centred around spending this 'life energy gauge' for various OGCD tools, and a {relatively simple} DPS rotation that consists of various builder skills, to fill the gauge with. Filler spell can give 1-2 gauge, if it has a DOT , then that can give, say, 1 gauge per tick (and maybe some on cast, eg a 15s DOT could be 5 on cast, plus 1 per tick, for a total of 10 over its duration), have some bigger hits on a CD that mimic Soul Slice from RPR, that give 5 or 10 or whatever amount deemed balanced. Then have various OGCD heals, costing various amounts of gauge

The moment we say 'well what's the point in talking about creative ideas, when we asked SE for new healer and got copypaste SGE', is the moment that SE's design direction wins. They want healers to begrudgingly accept '1 nuke, 1 DOT, 1 funny 30-40s CD button' because it's better for them to design for, be it for balance reasons, or their 'vision' of what the role should play like, or whatever