New DPS Job Idea - Time Mage!

[Valdegarde]

It does say "Astrologian" was going to be a Chemist or carry a gun, but that is just indicating thoughts about the "healer" class idea, before it was separated into Astrologian and Machinist.

The interview I was referring to was one in which Yoshi-P was asked about different designs for Machinist, and at one point insinuated Chemist by making a throw item gesture, which the interviewer understood as a FFT reference. Perhaps it would have been called Chemist with aim abilities like Mustadio, or something else entirely, we'll never know. Final Fantasy as a series has been long and diverse, and thus has a large pool of examples to draw from for many iterations of classes and jobs.

When acting as a premier authority on how jobs are supposed to be represented, one has to take into account all of these representations. For example, Machinist has been mentioned defined with guns, but the first and arguably most iconic iteration of Machinist was King Edgar, who didn't use guns at all. One might argue Cid from FFIV was the first Machinist as well, and he uses hammers...and is quite the tank!

And even beyond that, there are creative liberties that can and have been done. Bard has been mostly support, right? The class clearly takes most of its abilities from Ranger. But it's still Bard. Then there's Ninja (thief), Astrologian (time mage), even Warrior (berserker + viking). Scholar has never been associated with fairies before either. There's a lot of freedom and flexibility in how all of these things are implemented while still being relatively faithful to previous iterations.