Most Likely Healer: Chemist
Okay I’ve floated Chemist out now for each one of these articles and each time I’m left disappointed. If a Chemist doesn’t appear as a new playable job in Shadowbringers, I’m done trying to make it a thing forever, I promise.
It just makes so much sense this time around. Garleans can’t use magic. Other than relying on non-Garleans, they need to use non-magical means to heal their wounds. They are the experts in all things non-magical.
What job can you think of from Final Fantasy’s past that uses no magic to heal their teammates? Why, it’s the Chemist from Final Fantasy Tactics of course, which is a fountain of potential jobs that the dev team has drawn from before.
I so badly want to see a job that uses “mix” to put together salves in the heat of the battle to then sling over to a teammate. And during down time? Whipping out that big gun of course to put a hurting on an enemy gives it a clear way to DPS too without needing magic.
Plausible Healer: Dancer
Now that the “most requested jobs” are out of the way, the next new most requested job is probably the Dancer. It’s at least among the most brought up ever since Lyse showed up looking very much like a Dancer in the original Stormblood trailers.
Of course we learned that she was just wearing some Ala’Mihgo red, and was still very much just a Monk, but it didn’t quiet the rumors.
The best bet is still using Final Fantasy XIV’s more rigid paradigm to fully realize the excellent idea that Final Fantasy XI for Dancer as a frontline healer class. In FFXI, attacking generates TP (MP for FFXIV) which can then be used to heal.
It just might be a little too outside the box though for the FFXIV dev team which has so far preferred to keep healers far away from the action.
Longshot Healer: Time Mage
There’s extremely little to go off of to support a claim that Time Mage could be added as the next healer job for Final Fantasy XIV. There’s just not a lot of other past jobs that could fit the bill, and Time Mage is arguably among the most recognizable class that’s not in the game yet.
It would be neat to see time magic used as a way to “restore” players back to their previously un-damaged state by going back in time.
Plus, we’re going to be dealing with the Ascians plenty in this expansion, and while they don’t explicitly use time magic, they do like to dip in and out of planes of reality. That’s something… I guess?
It’s listed here as a longshot for a reason though. We’d guess that the next healer job would be one of the other two above, or a brand new job before we’d put American money on Time Mage.
