Could a melee Healer work?

[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.

[AceOfCakez]

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

[Tsiron]

What brought this about was my pondering the kind of Job they might give Gaia in the future since although she's a MRD/WAR in terms of (roughly) weapon type and stance, nothing else about it matches her particular skillset. Making her a Tank still doesn't feel right (even if a time skip were involved), and then it struck me! A melee Healer that uses time magic to halt or rewind damage! After all, there's a strong connection between maces/hammers and clerics and the like (admittedly mostly in western media e.g. Warhammer Fantasy), and aligning it with Darkness would make for a fun twist, I think.

Since new Jobs only get 10 levels' worth of quests anymore I think it would be funny if the Job teacher was very clearly just an older Gaia herself (regardless whether you'd completed Eden or not) taking a brief jaunt back in time to pass her skills down to the WoL

[Evergrey]

Warhammer Online had/have a melee healer class called Disciple of Khaine. So the concept of a melee healer is possible.
A thing Warhammer Online had/have though is that a player could target 2 at the same time, 1 hostile and 1 friendly.
So as a melee healer you could have a friend targeted while hitting on a hostile target, healing your friendly target.

[Tsiron]

That's basically Kardia, isn't it?