Could Time Mage have worked in FFXI?

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But now that SCH is here and has the ______ over Time niche, it won't work.

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'd say adding time mage is a terrible idea.

Time mage is definitely a support/enfeebling type of job

With that said the pillars of Time mage would be the same as Red mage and that's with slow and haste unfortantly for RDM if you take slow away from RDM thats really it for RDM and all that would be left is para for a job that is ment to specialism in enfeebling.

Anyway, I kinda feel that RDM is Time mage any way with chainspell, slow, fast cast and haste, being the main traits of what time mage really is.

Personally, I'd prefer a Time mage gear set for Red mage more than then adding a job that would probably step on the toes of some many others.

With that said some of your ideas would be great for RDM

Old, Reflect, Stop and Mute would be things that would breath new life into RDM.

A lot of mage jobs already step on each others toes. In fact, they all do. They each share a piece of what the other already has such as WHM specializing in curing and relieving their comrades of status ailments can also enfeeble. BLM, DRK, BRD, BLU can also. We all know this. Any new mage job that is added will definitely do that, though I understand your statement about RDM already being a pseudo Time Mage with with chainspell, slow, fast cast and haste.

With that said some of your ideas would be great for RDM. Old, Reflect, Stop and Mute would be things that would breath new life into RDM.

I couldn't agree with you more.