Could a melee Healer work?

[PercibelTheren]

There are games out there with melee healers. I'm fairly sure half the healer subclasses for Cleric in Rift were melee or a ranged/melee hybrid (admittedly I mostly played Mage, so I only vaguely remember) and they were fine. The only point of friction would be high end content where a melee spot would have to be given up to a healer, which DPS would whine about.

[Raven2014]

2 reasons it won't happen:

- You already have 2: WAR and PLD.

- They will take up a 5th melee slot.

The 2nd reason will force them to replace like ... almost half of the mechanic of every fight.

[CaptainLagbeard]

2 reasons it won't happen:

- You already have 2: WAR and PLD.

- They will take up a 5th melee slot.

The 2nd reason will force them to replace like ... almost half of the mechanic of every fight.

They could always pair up the release with a Ranged Tank.

[Raven2014]

They could always pair up the release with a Ranged Tank.

That's even worse, because now you're forcing paired the 2 new jobs together. Basically every party gonna have to choose between both of them or none of them.

[ZephyrMenodora]

Waiting on a Naughty Nurse class where I have to run up and jab people with syringes

[Isala]

Melee healers can work. Paladin works in WoW.

Melee healers cannot work with this dev team. They don't have the creativity to understand anything outside of their little healer box.

[Sunhwapark]

They could always pair up the release with a Ranged Tank.

I thought this was Summoner back in the day with Titan? lol

[Rithy255]

Melee healer could work, I think a "melee" healer would obviously need strong ranged options.

A good example would be if you turn paladin into a healer (with less mp costs), it's a job with melee attacks but has a lot of ranged options, even worse case you have a spell like holy spirit which is a loss, but isn't a massive loss compared to other jobs.

I don't think you could ever make a purely Melee healer Job with no real decent ranged attack, but you could certainly make a Job that has a lot melee attacks with range to fall back on for certain mechs.

[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

[angienessyo]

I think the only way it would work is if there was a lot of abilities that still had extra range. I've done several tiers on RDM and being a caster that has to get close to a boss can lead to some unpleasant 2 minute windows depending on the mechanic.