Quote Originally Posted by Martynek View Post
Sage wasn't just from "one really old FF game", it's appeared multiple times with a fairly consistent identity each time. 3, 4, Tactics Advance, Tactics A2, 4 Heroes of Light, and some other spinoffs. It's always been a job with access to both Black and White magics, but crippling weaknesses in all other regards, such as low speed and physical stats.
Except in XIV, it's some kind of barrier-techno mage field medic. Personally I find it a little jarring.
I know that Sage come from more than one FF, that isn't new to me. Tellah is the most iconic of them because it's the first one playable.
You say the design of Sage is a little jarring because of the difference in design between old one and the FFXIV one, but adding a new class with Black and white magic will look too much like the Red Mage. If you take the Lore of FFXIV into account, it's not that strange, Sharlayan got great magical base, and they even developped technology along with it. Sage isn't only based on magic, but on medicine too, and this make sense