If SE were to add Time Mage, give your input or ideas as to how it could work?

[Airget]

If you are going to try and compare it to a past iteration you aren't going to get anywhere because then Warrior isn't Warrior, Paladin isn't Paladin etc etc. It's not really the best thing to do when you have to keep in mind jobs tend to get re-imagined based on the game it's on. So in XIV's sense Astrologian is a Time Mage, but it's a Time Mage based on the concept of the stars dictating the idea of controlling space/time in a sense. It's a blend of astrology and time. Also as mentioned a little bit of Corsair thrown in for good measure.

But see, you throw in FF Tactics Time Mage and you get the following, Haste, Slow, Stop, Float, Reflect, Quick, Gravity and Meteor. It's not exactly a lot of ability to go on.


Now you look at what cards can do, they have a Haste mentality to them, there is a spell called Gravity so there is that, Meteor is a LB break ability so can't really use that as a regular skill. And overall there isn't enough to go on from the concept within Tactics to make it into a job, especially a healer at that lol.

[Felis]

Astologian also get a skill that stop time for a short time.

[Jonnycbad]

Guns
Spears
Swords
Great axes
Daggers
Staves
Wands
Books
Bows
Fist-weapons
Shields

If we have an armory system, then the remaining FF staples are:
Whips (Blue Mage/Dancer)
Katanas (Samurai)
One-handed Axes (Beast Master/Berserker)
Rapiers (Red Mage)
Animator (Puppetmaster)
Cloths (Dancer?)


They can get creative but just remember you need a new weapon category to have a new job, unless they make Red Mage and rapiers are a subdivision of swords similar to how SMN and SCH books are separated.

[Grey_Cain]

They can get creative but just remember you need a new weapon category to have a new job, unless they make Red Mage and rapiers are a subdivision of swords similar to how SMN and SCH books are separated.

Weapons are easy. The way the game is set up each weapon just needs to have a different name (maybe not even that much), and any job can have the same weapon type as any other.

However, a Time Mage converted directly from Tactics/V into FFXIV would end up something like:

Haste - increased skillspeed/spellspeed
Haste II - AoE version that affects all party members
Slow - give the target the Slow status
Slow II - AoE version that affects all enemies in an area or near the target
Regen - their own version of the WHM spell that would probably get a different name
Stop - causes Stun (make it the same as PLD stun just because someone else needs as good a Stun)
Speed - Increased movement speed (self only)
Don't Move/Immobilize - causes Bind
Don't Act/Disable - causes Pacification (6 seconds duration)
Mute - causes Silence
Float - since full damage immunity isn't likely, just prevents forced movement (similar to Tempered Will)
Reflect - enemies already have it in two flavors: reflect physical damage and reflect magical damage. This one would just reflect a portion of magical damage, but severely reduced compared to the enemies' OP abilities
Quick - next weaponskill or spell has no cast time and no re-cast
Comet - unaspected damage on a single target
Gravity - earth-based damage on a single target
Meteo - remove the 'r' at the end for a new spell; AoE version of Comet
Teleport - instant 25-30 yalm movement in the direction the caster is currently facing

[Greven]

I think as well AST is a Astrologer+Time Mage+Corsair but let there be dreams..

Grey_Cain said them all already, eheh

Though, if healer, a magicskill that would be edgily interesting would be a bubble, like Sacred Soil and Asylum, where "time stops". Inside it you wouldn't loose or gain HP/MP/TP but once you get out or it ends you'll get all the damage/heal/TP/MP at once. Like what people with a lag spike experience LOL.

Another skill that could work on both healer or DPS is something that could be called Futuresight which makes you, or a party member if healer, dodge the next hit.