Could a melee Healer work?

[TheDustyOne]

I think PLD would be a better representative of a caster tank. A cast-time heavy tank would be a neat idea if it is also had ample instant casts to be able to reposition when needed.

As for a melee healer, you could have one in the same sense that RDM is a "melee caster". So many fights and player strategies are designed with the idea that healers are ranged jobs, so any melee skills would need to be flexible on when to use them. SGE already technically "fulfils" this niche with Phlegma being close range, it's just not exactly fulfilling like the rest of the healers.

[CidHeiral]

No idea but give Chemist yoship pls ༼ つ ◕_◕ ༽つ

[Tunda]

I would like to see mid range tank that uses long lance and sheild who uses the sun to empower their attacks

[localareanetwork]

It technically is a thing only in Leviathan EX under certain circumstances

[Doragan]

YES. YESSSSS. A MELEE HEALER WOULD BE FANTASTIC. IVE BEEN HOPING FOR ONCE SINCE ARR DROPPED!!!! PLEASE SE!!!!!

[mallleable]

It honestly would probably look something like PLD.

[Tsiron]

If we were to take my... let's call it "Dark Cleric" idea, that's where the Dark-aspected part would come in! Well, and using a completely different kind of weapon. But yeah, PLD is already kind most of the way there with its shields and heals (which is neat)

[Alice_Rivers]

How do we feel about Geomancer? It has some basic lore thanks to an optional dungeon and some AST job quests and could b a hybrid shield/regen healer.

[Vensaval]

At first, I wouldn't have thought so with current encounter design in mind.

However, if they designed the Healer with an augment similar to Sage's Eukrasia that changes their ranged abilities to melee (or vice-versa) to do more damage or apply some other effects, I think it could definitely work.

[elioaiko]

At first, I wouldn't have thought so with current encounter design in mind.

However, if they designed the Healer with an augment similar to Sage's Eukrasia that changes their ranged abilities to melee (or vice-versa) to do more damage or apply some other effects, I think it could definitely work.

In theory this works but I can imagine the forums being blasted with complaints about the ranged spam being too weak when they have to do ranged mechanics. Making the melee part stronger just makes the having ranged option an illusion. You're gimping yourself if you're not doing melee 99% of the time.

Melee healer could work but they would need to tune down the forced ranged mechanics that requires the healer to spread out.