New Job Framework: Time Mage (TIM)

[Edyth]

There is no reason to replace it with something else even if it funcitons the same (in which case, it would make a lot more sense to just give the same spell to each job). Meteor is the ultimate black mage spell, and you see it cast by a whole bunch of Tarutaru black mages in the game's opening scene. So you want to screw with that and have the game actually give meteor to some other job and not BLM, the job which is seen casting it throughout the game by many NPCs?

Meteor is Time Mage's ultimate spell. In the game in which the job was introduced, Time Mages wielded Meteor; in its next appearance (FFT), Meteor is the ultimate Time Magic spell, while Flare is the ultimate black magic spell. If Time Mage appears in a particular FF, Black Mages do not get Meteor in that game. Meteor either goes to Time Mage (FFV and FFT) or Alchemist (the two FFTA games).

I actually think that of the FF games where you can change jobs, only FFIII and FFXI let Black Mages use Meteor natively. The ultimate black magic spell is typically Ultima or Flare.

In the 9 job-changing/job-selecting FF games (I, III, V, X-2, XI, XIV, T, TA, TA2), Black Mages get Meteor in 2/9 appearances. Time Mages get Meteor in 2/4 appearances. When they appear together in a game, BLM gets Meteor 0% of the time; Time Mage gets the spell 50% of the time.