Quote Originally Posted by Katie_Kitty View Post
Caster/melee hybrid is red mage. I guess maybe there was some weird job in FFXII called a time battlemage or whatever but that's definitely not what a time mage is and it definitely would not be presented that way if it was implemented in FFXIV. A traditional Time Mage, which is what we would get if it came to FFXIV, is just a regular mage that casts "time magic".
what is a 'traditional' time mage in eorzea? given that AST quests go out of their way to say that proper time magic is impossible for mortals (ascians do it but they've got huge aetheric guts and iirc it was mentioned that it would've eventually killed nabriales anyway had we not finished them ourselves) and the devs mechanically shucked all time-based stuff out of AST in shadowbringers.

then again none of the AST lore makes sense after the ShB changes anyway (hoo boy card lore), and it wouldnt surprise me to see the devs make a new class from the stolen parts of another when it was still good.