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[Alhanelem]

Time mage abilities are/would be inherently broken in an MMO, and time mage itself doesn't have enough depth to be a full class. Demi/Quarter would be ridiculous, Stop would be ridiculous unless it was just stun/terror with a different name. Thaumaturge already has slow. Quicken would have to be totally reworked for a real-time combat system. Haste was given to white/red mage in FFXI.

-1 for time mage. Time manipulation is overpowered in almost every implementation. Take Magic: The gathering for example. Almost every card with the word 'time' in the title gets restricted or banned before long. Every time ability would either be too strong or useless.

[Jennestia]

-1 for time mage. Time manipulation is overpowered in almost every implementation.

Well, in FFXI there's:

-Haste (3 forms of it even, Spell, Gear and Ability/Weapon Delay haste.)
-Slow (Tiers as well as types, Spell, Song and Gear)
-Stop/Terror (Player Terror is very gimped compared to enemy terror, so it would work fine, but almost never work on NMs.)
-Demi (Breath Damage is a popular form of Demi, Ruinous Omen from Diabolos is a form of Demi, ignoring resistances)

So on so forth. It works well, it's all in how Square would balance it.

[Majidah]

Time mage abilities are/would be inherently broken in an MMO, and time mage itself doesn't have enough depth to be a full class.

Seeing its already a full job in many final fantasy games, this is statement is false.

Demi/Quarter would be ridiculous.

Demi aka Gravity was already worked and balanced into FFXI, an MMORPG, as a heavy inducing spell. Making your statement wrong.

Stop would be ridiculous unless it was just stun/terror with a different name

For proof that anything can be balanced, read the answer above.

Thaumaturge already has slow.

So? Do THMs have dibs on it? Time mage could get slow II for that matter.

Quicken would have to be totally reworked for a real-time combat system.

Off the top of my head: Quicken could either make the next action used by target player immediately repeat itself or have no TP/MP cost.

Haste was given to white/red mage in FFXI.

1- This isn't FFXI. 2- Haste II.