If green mage is the new caster job

[Rongway]

A buff/debuff heavy green mage would never work in the system we have. Even if they could expand their spells to be party versions, GCDs spent re-buffing people who have raised are GCDs spent not doing damage, and if nobody dies then they're effectively "always on" buffs and why bother. The buffs would either have so little impact that nobody wants them or they'd be so good that everyone wants only green mages for their caster slots.

If we get green mage, it's going to be a green mage in name only, with a completely different concept, like we got with sage, an established job name with a completely different concept from its historical implementations.