Could Time Mage have worked in FFXI?

[Hashmalum]

There is one other big reason that they won't add Time Mage, and that's that Comet and Meteor were already given to BLM.

[Luvbunny]

they just need to rework rdm and give them different merits and some different spells. then they can add time mage

You mean just rename Red Mage and change it into Time Mage? Maybe that will works better lol.

[JouriStarz]

I do remember reading when that was posted about how the dev-team regard SCH as being the "Damage over time" specialist. I do not buy that at all. That seems like an awful excuse for not implementing higher tiers of Dia, Diaga, Poison, Poisonga and Bio and even Virus.

If you have Altana Viewer you can see all of the unreleased spells like Confuse, a myriad of bard songs including massacre elegy, dia 1-5, diaga 1-5, bio 1-5, poison 1-5, poisonga 1-5, Tier IV --ga tier IV and V nukes, -San ninjutusu, berserk, Toad, wall, reflect, Faith, etc. etc. A lot of those would make perfect sense for RDM.

I'm not sure about all these spells but some of them (I know confuse for sure) are used by GMs.

[Mirage]

If SCH was never added, TMG could have worked.

SCH is really time mage anyway. Think about it, a lot of SCH's exclusive spells are Whatever-over-time, their 2hour white magic is hastega 2+Regen+Regain, and the job itself was sort of forgotten in time itself, requiring you to travel through time to find it.

[Meyi]

Other Time Magic spells not available to jobs in FFXI include:

Stop
Demi
Old
Hastega
Slowga
Graviga
Reflect
Float
Quick

Ergh... Hastega is a Blood Pact: Ward ability to Garuda, Slowga is a Blood Pact: Ward ability to Leviathan, and while I feel as if Summoner gets Graviga, I must be confusing it with Tail Whip (single target Gravity).

[Ordoric]

slowga LOL realy i need to slow the 10 mobs killing me lol however im in agrence over reflect there are a few players that spam cure please i can see dyan now <##m casts reflctga, ADL splits, terra slash , adl casts sleepga II surpasses reflect, mages cant cure, ADL rapes all,

[Tanama]

slowga LOL realy i need to slow the 10 mobs killing me lol

Is that really the -only- application you could think of for Slowga?

however im in agrence over reflect there are a few players that spam cure please i can see dyan now <##m casts reflctga, ADL splits, terra slash , adl casts sleepga II surpasses reflect, mages cant cure, ADL rapes all,

Reflect, Reflectra or Reflectga are a double-edged sword. While it offers great benefits by having the magic bounce back to it's caster, it also hinders you so you are forced to think and use the spell strategically. That is how it has always been for the Reflect spell in the Final Fantasy series.

[Ordoric]

but potions would heal far more potent than they do and stack far more than allowed not to mention medicated effect in the Final fantasy series. just reminding im good with out refect props for out of the box thinking

[Draylo]

Yes I'd love Time Mage and Chemist.

[tyrantsyn]

I love the idea I really do. But if you look at RDM you'll notice that it's right on track for a lot that you would want out of a Time Mage. And RDM is a huge sore spot in the balance department. Increase spell duration, enfeeble's, insta~cast it's all there.