What if the clover in the hint isn't green mage but...

[DamianFatale]

It's inherently a bit of a red herring (green herring?) because even if it is called green mage it might have nothing to do with any previous installments of green mage. Especially the prediction that it will be heavily debuff/dot oriented is strange because job design has been going away from dots at every corner.

Dots do make sense. I also wonder if this job had been planned a lot longer than people realized, whether it is green mage or not due to plot relevance. A heavy plot relevant job would be refreshing, because it feels like Samurai, and other jobs of past story hype didn't have as much relevance in their expansions until recently. Warrior of light was never as much of a Samurai in the media as much as they made us believe.. I really enjoyed the hints at reaper, and how they eventually played out with Zenos. Would be cool if there are some job hints we will see in part 2. Even if one of the jobs is already revealed, it would be cool to see it in game as a preview like they did with Gosetsu.

[Saraide]

Dots do make sense. I also wonder if this job had been planned a lot longer than people realized, whether it is green mage or not due to plot relevance. A heavy plot relevant job would be refreshing, because it feels like Samurai, and other jobs of past story hype didn't have as much relevance in their expansions until recently. Warrior of light was never as much of a Samurai in the media as much as they made us believe.. I really enjoyed the hints at reaper, and how they eventually played out with Zenos. Would be cool if there are some job hints we will see in part 2. Even if one of the jobs is already revealed, it would be cool to see it in game as a preview like they did with Gosetsu.

Dots are not a sensible prediction with how the job changes went this expansion. It would be a full turn around in job design. SMN lost the dots completely, BRD had them massively reduced in importance. No other job has gained significant dots outside of BLU which is completely outside of regular job design and does not count for this prediction.

[Bacent]

Dots are not a sensible prediction with how the job changes went this expansion. It would be a full turn around in job design. SMN lost the dots completely, BRD had them massively reduced in importance. No other job has gained significant dots outside of BLU which is completely outside of regular job design and does not count for this prediction.

Don't forget about the fact there's a hard limit on Debuffs/Buffs on players and enemies in total (More so noticible in extreme content and ultimates where some people can't use certain buffs on the party because their own personal buffs can 'miss). People are asking SE to change the limitation on it, but..

[Saraide]

Don't forget about the fact there's a hard limit on Debuffs/Buffs on players and enemies in total (More so noticible in extreme content and ultimates where some people can't use certain buffs on the party because their own personal buffs can 'miss). People are asking SE to change the limitation on it, but..

Absolutely. Although they seemingly increased the buff limit slightly according to some people in the thread dedicated to this issue.