If SE were to add Time Mage, give your input or ideas as to how it could work?

[Ultimatecalibur]

When reading another forum post here, Yoshi-P talked about support jobs and how it would be difficult to include them because they would either always have to be needed or they would never be wanted. They listed a few jobs that were talked about a lot and Yoshi-P stated that the next job would surprise players.

Time Mage would be an amazing job to add in my opinion, but I think it would partially be under the support role. How would you go about implementing a job like this? What abilities would you give it. How would you solve the problem stated by Yoshi-P above?

Time Mage is Astrologian just as Rogue is Thief.

[Alberel]

Time Mage is Astrologian just as Rogue is Thief.

This. Quite a few of the AST spells are very clearly Time Mage spells. AST is basically a mix of Corsair from FFXI with a Time Mage.

[Brundlefly]

Quite a few of the AST spells are very clearly Time Mage spells. AST is basically a mix of Corsair from FFXI with a Time Mage.

Really?! Cause I'm not quite seeing the connection between the patchnotes and this.

[WellFooled]

Really?! Cause I'm not quite seeing the connection between the patchnotes and this.

I think what they're saying, and I agree, is that parts from Time Mage were cannibalized to make Astrologian so its unlikely Time Mage will appear in FFXIV. Namely they're both closely related to heavenly bodies and they share control of space/time (Some of AST's abilities include Time Dilation, Gravity, and Lightspeed).

But its still fun to think about how classes could be implemented even if we know they probably won't be.

[Radacci]

Really?! Cause I'm not quite seeing the connection between the patchnotes and this.

ast has gravity spell, cards that increase attack speed, reduce cooldown of skills, etc.
slows/many debuffs dont work on bosses, so time mage would be pointless job to have.
so they added some time spells to ast.

Astologian also get a skill that stop time for a short time.

no they dont. that's not how time dilation works.

[Risvertasashi]

no they dont. that's not how time dilation works.

She's referring to AST's limit break, I believe.