Quote Originally Posted by Archwizard View Post
I think you're giving a little too much credit to the devs' planning cycle. Remember, that was a period where both of the jobs we know they had on the table got scrapped, and we ended up with 3 completely different jobs.

It's probable that Astrologian recycled aspects of what was spitballed for a potential Time Mage job (Gravity, Regen, old Timer manipulating skills, etc)... but if an actual "Time Mage" had been in stages of development at any point between HW and SB, we would have heard about it in the same manner we know about Tankurai, Chemist v1, and the Onmyoji/Oracle scrapped from Stormblood. On that front, all we've really heard is that we're definitely never getting Haste party buffs because it would be overpowered.
well omoujya, thats new to me makes sense though as that(mystic/oracle) could have been a fitting job to bring back, especially for that expansion. You could be right. That would be extremely depressing if they were that short sighted with combat/job designs, but I wouldnt doubt it honestly. Despite what we can speculate what they had, or hadnt had in mind, or how much future they look to(because a contradicting statement could be that they are already working on the next expansion before hand etc so i assume they have some planning involved at least with the story aspect) either way, its pretty obvious that they do scrap old ideas and mix and match them with jobs they come out with. Kind of wishy washy honestly. Anyway we will just have to wait and see what they reveal later on, though from another thread seems like quite a few people would keep playing if they stopped adding any more jobs ever.