Time Mage Awareness

[Endigiont]

You know, just play Final Fantasy Tactics, or Tactics Advance, or Tactics Advance 2, or Final Fantasy V and you'll see how useful Time Mages are in Final Fantasy games, it's like a job made of condensed win.





Also look, it's pretty iconic if it's right here in a Final Fantasy logo....

Right there with a White Mage, a Black Mage, and a Dragoon BAM Time Mage.

[Andrien]

Awesome, now without further derails, we can discuss about Time Mage.



Its safe to speculate that Louisoix can be considered a Time Mage. The magic-force field he used can be Reflect. Finally the animation from the last magic he cast on the warriors resembles an hour glass to send them into the future.

I think Time Mage should branch out from Black Mage. This way the offensive magic spell they'll share is Comet and Meteorite. They can take the supportive role in a party since most of their magics either grants beneficial effects, and debuffs enemies.

thats it for now..sleepy

[Endigiont]

I don't agree with it being a branch out of Black Mage, give Black Mage Meteor / Ultima, and maybe give Time Mage Comet.

[Ingolf]

If they're planning to make each god a job, Althyk would obviously be the god who governs time mages.

I had a feeling they were planning to tie the gods to the classes/jobs at one point oo.

[Endigiont]

That would be hard to do, but many of the Gods are "depicted" with a certain crafting tool.

Copy Pasting this stuff

Althyk - He is most often depicted as an austere emperor wielding a mythril greataxe. His symbol is the hourglass.
Azeyma - She is most often depicted as a noble lady holding a golden fan. (Dancer?)
Byregot - He is most often depicted as ardent smith with a two-headed hammer. (Blacksmith / Warrior?)
Halone - She is most often depicted as a relentless warrioress armed with a bronze greatshield. Her symbol is the three spears. (Paladin / Dragoon?)
Llymlaen - She is most often depicted as a strong fisherwoman wielding a long bladed harpoon. Her symbol is the wave. (Dragoon / Fisherman?
Menphina - She is most often depicted as a maid carrying a round Skillet. Her symbol is the full moon. (Cook /White mage?)
Nald'thal - He is most often depicted as a discerning merchant holding a balance. His symbol is the cowry, an ancient shell currency. ( ? )
Nophica - She is most often depicted as a jubilant farmer holding a scythe of steel. Her symbol is the spring leaf. (Harvester / Conjurer?)
Nymeia - She is most often depicted as a weaver donning a white, silken veil. Her symbol is the spinning wheel. (Weaver?)
Oschon - He is most often depicted as a carefree ranger wielding a bow of yew. His symbol is the walking stick. (Archer?)
Rhalgr - He is most often depicted as a magi carrying a staff of bronze. His symbol is the streaking meteor. ( Black Mage?)
Thaliak- He is most often depicted as a reserved scholar holding an ashen staff. His symbol is the scroll. (Black mage again?)

[Makwa]

Heh, funny thing is if they ever did implement TMG(I'd be for a branch off THM, main one-handed cudgels with a new offhand "timepiece" for Macc), I'd have 3 friends dropping everything to pick up the game, no questions asked. They're still holding out for it in XI. -_-
I've always been a Geomancer fan, and although XI is adding it, I feel it's too late in the game for me. Hoping XIV gets its own version at some point.
As for RDM, I could see it being a job from a base class of Fencer, and hopefully the attack animations include some badass fencing. Buddy told me if they just had it use CNJ/THM, and gave it enspells(cast enspell then use fire/aero etc to get enfire, enaero) and spikes(same thing), made its WS be more of a "magical" type of damage it could be an interesting force on the battlefield.

[Jinrya-Geki]

I wish we had time mage, red mage, and arcanist all at the same time. I'd have a lot of things to level in 2.0 then.

[Malakhim]

I'm still not entirely sure why people want Red Mage in the first place. From what I'm understanding, people want the FFXI incarnation of RDM, but if we go back to the Final Fantasy V job system, RDM really only had lower level White and Black magic. The en- spells belonged to sorcerer and Haste, Slow, etc. all belonged to time mage. If you want the "traditional" Red Mage, which in and of itself is just a hybrid class, then from 1.0's specs(har har using dead stuff) all you had to do was give Gladiator White and Black magic. Taa dah! You have a Red Mage!

Personally speaking though, I think Red Mage looks totally pimp, and I think that's why people want it in there, and why not? He has a bloody(crimson to be exact) pimp hat! That's way better than Time Mage's FFT condom thing!

I would love for them to take the sort of-but not really creativity they gave RDM in FFXI, but actually turn Red Magic into its own fully-fledged discipline. Red Magic should be all about sacrifice. You have to give a certain portion of your own stamina(or HP) to use magic, whether it be using a self-drain to heal allies or use your own blood as a medium to deal a massive AoE fire blast or something. I dunno! Get creative!

Oh yeah, and something about Time Mage being cool.

[AmyNeudaiz]

something about Time Mage being cool.

The only thing on topic on your post.


Why do people keep on about Red Mage in a Time Mage thread?

[Riv]

Make red mage some sort of class, and time mage the job. Although classes in this game could already be considered jack of all trades.