A Time Mage In Time (Time Mage Awareness)

Back in 2004 when I had first bought FFXI, I had many wild ideas of what the game would be like, naturally as a Final Fantasy game I figured it'd have my favorite job, while installing I read the manual and my dreams were already crushed, no Time Mage... I ended up eventually choosing Black Mage (several days later, back in 56k connection days). Anyhow, the desire to be a Time Mage never died down with me, faithfully awaiting each expansion that rolled in I fervently hoped and wished I'd wake up one morning to find the newest addition to the game would be Time Mage.( random blurb: I even had someone in the community make up a time mage hat model to use in game) Expansions came and came and came, but no Time Mage, my fellow players stated to me that "This game doesn't need it it's spell are already strewn about the jobs as is." however that never satisfied me, and even worse when in a time traveling expansion Scholar was introduced which was very redundant in my opinion, since it at launch had almost no unique spells. Time marched on but no prospects of Time Mage. So when FFXIV was announced I was thrilled, partially because of the possibility that I'd finally get my wish, but alas it was not to be.


However.... I spotted a ray of hope, with the new team for FFXIV and actively going for a more "Final Fantasy" feel it seemed only logical to add Time Mage which is just as much a Final Fantasy icon as mages named after colors.

So what I'm hoping, and I'm patient with it... Is that after jobs like Ninja Thief and Samurai are introduced maybe one day we'll get to see the noble Time Mage strolling around Eorzea.

I'd like to mention that time and space magic, along with being very mutable (changing it into however SE would want to do) is also a varied and extensive list of spells which most people don't realized are time or space magic at all.

http://finalfantasy.wikia.com/wiki/Time_Magic

Some sample spells and some possible uses in FFXIV (some already ingame)
Bind - Crowd control prevent movement
Gravity - Crowd control slows movement
Slow - Enfeeble, increases delay for attacks / abilities
Stop - Crowd control stuns target
Haste - Buff decreases delay for attacks / abilities
Old - Enfeeble decreases stats over time
Teleport - Utility brings other players to Time Mage's location

Some spells like comet and meteor in some games also belong in a Time Mage's arsenal.

As for the basic class it could be called Horologist and it's weapon could be a time peace(pocket watch), and as for an attack animation(cosmetic) it could simply be brandishing the clocks face at an enemy with arm outstretched and have a small burst of energy with a tick tock sound emit from it.

I might be rambling it is 6am, but what are your thoughts on this iconic Final Fantasy job?

YES.

I've wanted Time Mage since... forever. "Twisting space and time" would be such a a good addition to XIV, immobilising enemies, moving objects from one space to another (E.g., meteor/teleport). I know you've already said most of that, but I want to reiterate it all.

Not to mention, the XIV take on the AF gear would look amazing!

I want my orange mage goddamit! <3 <3 <3

well they want to add new diciplines of magic... time mage should be considered eventually by SE
IF not already.. because from what i know.. if they had arcanist in 1.0 .. and they are talking about summoner... that mean they have another classe up their sleeves... yet that they didnt state
CNJ 1 // WHM
THM 2 // BLM
ARC 3 //maybe blue mage or something called dark lol
SMN 4 //RDM
TMM 5? //ORM ??
VS the current 5 DoW, that would be complete if you may consider this as a PVP statement

even if im not sure when they said they were going to release PVP

i find the subject interesting to read about because i'm not really a fan of magic

what i would find nice to see is staves with some fine crystals in it.. i know yet we can break crystals with elementals rocks

that would be nice for them... having somekind of high delay hammer... you know like hourglass staves...like if the time mage has powerful high delay attacks..like meteor.. as stated above

Any way they would want to do it would be welcome by me. My vision for Time Mage would be an enfeebler / crowd controller with a couple buffs. As for the AF armor oh yeah that would be amazing to see, it could be a traditional looking AF or it could be more of a deviation like that new Bravely Default game has it's armor.


http://finalfantasy.wikia.com/wiki/T...F_TimeMage.jpg

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Originally Posted by Endigiont

My vision for Time Mage would be an enfeebler / crowd controller with a couple buffs.[/url]

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So a red mage / arcanist?

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Originally Posted by Altena

So a red mage / arcanist?

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Since RDM isn't in the game, no.
Arcanist is DoT/Debuff, so it'll be weird splitting the spells between the two. I'd love Time Mage, but spell-wise I think it'll be limited =/

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Originally Posted by Fantasia

Since RDM isn't in the game, no.
Arcanist is DoT/Debuff, so it'll be weird splitting the spells between the two. I'd love Time Mage, but spell-wise I think it'll be limited =/

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so what... summoner // Red mage ? from what i read they have the option to cast either white magic or black magic.. so yeah.. i think i made an error when i wrote ARC//RDM .. lol

i think they should switch Red magic to Grey magic
and just say "Red Magic" is now Debuff// DoT lol
and call SMN // Grey Mage
ARC // Red Mage

or just call ARC // grey mage... anyway.. their arts seem dark so can fit either way.. lol
lol i keep editing myself.. thats so confusing... damn colors...

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Originally Posted by XT_hydra

so what... summoner // Red mage ? from what i read they have the option to cast either white magic or black magic.. so yeah.. i think i made an error when i wrote ARC//RDM .. lol

i think they should switch Red magic to Grey magic
and just say "Red Magic" is now Debuff// DoT lol
and call SMN // Grey Mage
ARC // Red Mage

or just call ARC // grey mage... anyway.. their arts seem dark so can fit either way.. lol
lol i keep editing myself.. thats so confusing... damn colors...

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I won't lie, all of those backslashes have confused the heck out of me and I have no idea what you're talking about.

Well no, I'd like to see Redmage and Arcanist, and you can have multiple jobs that fill the same role, hopefully SE will learn that about tanks and healers <,< instead of having 1 of each and the rest of the jobs DPS lol.

I think at the moment, and hopefully ARR will fix it, but all the jobs are limited spell / ability wise at level 50.

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Originally Posted by Fantasia

I won't lie, all of those backslashes have confused the heck out of me and I have no idea what you're talking about.

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oh.. because someone said : Arcanist having Red mage job
but Red Mage is able to cast black magic and white magic http://finalfantasy.wikia.com/wiki/R..._Fantasy_XI%29
like Summoner is able to cast black magic and white magic http://finalfantasy.wikia.com/wiki/Summoner

anyway.. nevermind.. im not really good at writing factual stuff..lol

All magic is basically black or white magic, black and white just means offensive and defensive (Nukes, enfeeblers, are black)
(Heals, buffs are white)

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Originally Posted by Fantasia

I won't lie, all of those backslashes have confused the heck out of me and I have no idea what you're talking about.

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lmao... Took the words out of my mouth..

True <,< lol but since he was semi supporting Time Mage I didn't want to mention I had no clue what he was saying.

Time Mage > Red Mage

first wanted to tell u great treat to talk about FF11 and now FF14 havent add that kind of mage i would agree with you that they should add it just because is a new thing that they havent put it together and there so many cool skills that time mage can do, so i vote yes for this kind of mage to be in the future in FF14

If we look historically at how time magic is handled there is a whole vacuum of possibilities that could be realized. PUN INTENDED. For example, the Demi spells; which would essentially be the Time Mage's damage focus. Various degree's of %Hp depletion by means of aging or black hole etc. When we use teleportation we cannot rule out the possibility of teleporting enemies also. It could be implemented as a unique way of tractoring enemies to your location or moving a creature a few feet to the left before his ability goes off. If we can freeze time, or slow time why not allow for specialized use of this field? Time Mage could potentially heal damage of other characters by rewinding time around them. Could speed up their metabolism and force a "fight or flight response" resulting in an increase in strength, combined with Haste for speed, also. To add to the support role...perhaps there is a skill that inflicts bleeding damage or some various other wound...and the Time Mage can combo this ability by speeding up the bleeding. Another passive way to do damage through support. Thoughts on these ideas?

Yah there are virtually endless ways it could be implemented you had some good ideas, I especially like the speeding up bleeding damage :3