Could a melee Healer work?

[Arrius]

So like the concept of 'Fistweaving' from WoW's Mistweaver Monk, where a fraction of melee damage is converted to group heal when the enemy is debuffed?

[Tsiron]

I always had it in my mind that a hammer combat job would have to be a tank, but hey I'd take a healer.
I just want a job that uses a big warhammer as a main weapon.

They often design content with healers meant to coordinate like ranged units, so probably not. It'd be more of a dedicated off Tank or a support oriented Melee. I'd imagine they'd need to change the trinity by quite a bit to make it work, though I wouldn't be against that.

Tank or DPS seems like the likeliest Role for a hammer-wielder, yeah, but it might be nice to go against expectations once in a while (it would probably be a nightmare to balance, like you said)!

So like the concept of 'Fistweaving' from WoW's Mistweaver Monk, where a fraction of melee damage is converted to group heal when the enemy is debuffed?

I'm not familiar with what you're referencing, but that sounds like it could be a fun gimmick, sure!

[Sivante]

I don't see why not. OW Had Bridgette, WoW had fist-weavers. Many games have hosted what I'd call 'melee healers'. Whether they fit into the modern FFXIV mechanics or not isn't overly relevant to me personally as they still maintain BLM, a class based on doing damage by not moving as much as possible, in a game with mechs based on making you move as much as possible.

So, yeah, I don't see why it wouldn't be viable. May even be a good design idea to apply to old fan faves like Geomancer.

[AceOfCakez]

Yeah. Let's call it Chiropractor. And it revolves around dashing between party members and healing them using Hokuto Shinken.

[Azurarok]

On that note I will always root for Green Mage as a Tank with their emphasis on buff/debuff-oriented spells

Plus you can then make a light party of color mages

[GrizzlyTank]

Least in WoW always wanted something like "beacon of atonement" for paladins.

For people who don't know. One of the priests healer specs Disciple have a buff "atonement" that they apply to people they heal, for then to heal them further when the priest deals damage.

While paladin have various beacons that makes certain heals hit a beaconed target as well as their main target. So a "beacon of atonement" would be a buff that heals a target when you attack an enemy.

Issue tho that the job would quickly be the go-to since dps matters over heals. Another being that the job would still need direct ranged/aoe heals or it wouldn't be useable in a multitude of fights for they would either be too far away from the enemy or ally.

[CaptainLagbeard]

Least in WoW always wanted something like "beacon of atonement" for paladins.

For people who don't know. One of the priests healer specs Disciple have a buff "atonement" that they apply to people they heal, for then to heal them further when the priest deals damage.

While paladin have various beacons that makes certain heals hit a beaconed target as well as their main target. So a "beacon of atonement" would be a buff that heals a target when you attack an enemy.

Issue tho that the job would quickly be the go-to since dps matters over heals. Another being that the job would still need direct ranged/aoe heals or it wouldn't be useable in a multitude of fights for they would either be too far away from the enemy or ally.

We have Sage with Kardia, which you put on a target (usually tank for obvious reasons) and all your attacks cast a heal on the target.

[GrizzlyTank]

We have Sage with Kardia, which you put on a target (usually tank for obvious reasons) and all your attacks cast a heal on the target.

Aaaah, might have forgotten about that one. Didn't touch sage since hitting 90 on it .-.

[Connor]

Considering how poorly the healers are balanced currently (SCH+AST supremacy, WHM crying in corner, SGE idk exists I guess), I highly doubt throwing in not only a fifth healer but a ‘melee’ one at that would do anything other than making the entire role-balance fall apart. Either it dethroned SCH/AST (and we all know SE won’t let SCH give up it’s spot at the top lol) or gets thrown in the ‘no-raid-buffs’ bin with WHM/SGE

[Reimmi]

Considering how poorly the healers are balanced currently (SCH+AST supremacy, WHM crying in corner, SGE idk exists I guess), I highly doubt throwing in not only a fifth healer but a ‘melee’ one at that would do anything other than making the entire role-balance fall apart. Either it dethroned SCH/AST (and we all know SE won’t let SCH give up it’s spot at the top lol) or gets thrown in the ‘no-raid-buffs’ bin with WHM/SGE

Fun > balance
I hope they realize this some day, then the healers might be enjoyable again