Time Mage

[Sylvain]

http://www.dualshockers.com/2017/03/...ments-paladin/

Of course, there other jobs were considered: when thinking of magic you might think of Time Mage, which could have been a good candidate,

PLEASEEEE YOSHIDA, please make the Time Mage X_X


吉田様、時魔導士を作ってください！
お願いします！


(I requote an old post of mine)
Lore
The quest is acquired in the new main city. Like the Dark Knight, the job is taught by a scholar from Sharlayan (assuming the next city isn't already Sharlayan) willing to teach us the forbidden art of chronomancy from his homeland. He explains to us that Time Magic appeared after the land of Sharlayan had developed the art to read the stars. After some time Astrologians with their mastery of controlling fate became able, to some extent, to alter the flow of time. Some Astrologians were very interested in this property and decided to go further down this path becoming very potent at controlling the flow of time.

The talent of the former Time Mages were welcomed as a pair with the divine prediction of the astrologian. With both, the Sharlayan Empire became very confident in their capability to face any struggle. However as time passed some weird things started happening. A group of skilled time mages started using their talent for evil schemes. It started slowly, some events happened for some people, and not for others. Many people started having a weird feeling of déjà vue concerning important matters. Some events were unexplainable and astrologians started losing their capacity to read the future and the fate of people.

As it worsened, there were reports of people dead and alive at the same time. People that seemed to have never existed while they should have. It is at this moment that the authority of Sharlayan declared Time Magic illegal as it was too dangerous to let anyone fool with the flow of time. Predicting the future is one thing. Changing the past is another. What if the worst enemy of your nation was never born? Studying the Allagan empire military technology would be progressive for your country. This is the power of the forbidden art of chronomancy.

Sharlayan fought fire with fire and used their own Time Mages to track and kill all the malevolent heretics and put a stop to this madness. Time paradox, dead bodies of living people, zone of never ending loops of events were common. A whole city became a host of numerous time disasters, the zone had to be put in quarantining through a massive Time Stop bubble. (New dungeon)

When the dark faction was finally slain, the authority of Sharlayan ordered the time mages to modify the past and prevent this art from ever arising. As for now, nobody knows what time magic is. Some scholars have heard of the story but most people think it is a simple fairy tale. Or a warning.
Have these events truly happened? Most people would tell you're there's no way to know.

How could we know that an event that hasn't happened, has happened?
The scholar mentioned earlier is the one to tell you all these events that have transpired in the Sharlayan Empire and he ends his story with these parting words should you wish to continue on your quest to be a Time Mage.

“But here I am. Who am I? It is not important for now, but you, warrior of light, I believe you have the strength and wisdom to use this magic. Are you interested in mastering a forbidden art of a no longer existing past?”

[ADVSS]

Theres also allagan time magic

[Sylvain]

Theres also allagan time magic

I thought of this one too, but I felt that the whole "Time Line Manipulation Theme" was also very cool.
Like, I felt that Time Mage destroying Time Magic by erasing all the past event that led to the discovery and mastery o time magic was cool (and full of paradox at the same time)

[LunarEmerald]

Astrologian is close enough to a Time Mage. We'll never have a role outside tank, healer and dps and Time Mage best fits as a healer.

[Sylvain]

Astrologian is close enough to a Time Mage. We'll never have a role outside tank, healer and dps and Time Mage best fits as a healer.

Well this interview specifically talks about "other considered job for the dps slot" and Yoshida considered Time Mage, so...

[LunarEmerald]

Well this interview specifically talks about "other considered job for the dps slot" and Yoshida considered Time Mage, so...

YoshiP wanted to avoid mentioning any job to avoid rumors. So it feels like he mentioned one that won't happen.

If you read the sentence carefully, he didn't say Time Mage was one of the jobs considered. He only brought it up as an example.

[Vorx]

I would like them to bring back Demi, Ultima and Flare. I though Dark would have Demi since its a dark magic spell but they didn't.

[ADVSS]

I would like them to bring back Demi, Ultima and Flare. I though Dark would have Demi since its a dark magic spell but they didn't.

just watch an astrologian cast Gravity... Demi and Quartr cant really exist like they have, either its too op or being an early level attack magic that doesnt kill, youd never beat your level 5 quest. Flare is a BLM spell already and back in 2.0, by the end, it really was Flare. Now? not so much, caunt one shot/or 2 shot mobs instantly in dungeons, but its still very potent.

as for the sharlayan lore sure it might fit, but astrologian follows sharlayan lore, and well if you did hildibrand you could see the more intricate uses of the allagan type of time magic being used in play.

Now as far as dissuading through the obvious, what I care about is how much thought you put into it outside lore that could get retconned one way or another.

Is your ideal time mage a healer tank or dps?
what gimmicks or mechanovs do you see it having that doesnt exist in either role (ill give you an example: I could see time mages using a click pjasimg/blink on an extremely if not short cooldown. for dodging, or showing off)

[Enkidoh]

I would like them to bring back Demi, Ultima and Flare. I though Dark would have Demi since its a dark magic spell but they didn't.

Uh, Flare already is in the game (it's a level 50 BLM spell). And Ultima is part of the storyline and accordingly will never be a player spell because said story has the spell completely lost to the aether

(it was contained within the Heart of Sabik which powered the Ultima Weapon and which Lahabrea cast during the final battle in the Praetorium to take out the player's 'shield' (and destroyed the Praetorium in the process) - the spell was lost with along the Heart of Sabik when the Ultima Weapon explodes upon completing the battle.

And before you pass judgement, it's not like SE hasn't done this before, FFVII after all had Holy and Meteor as story concepts which the player could never gain, and Ultima was never added to FFXI either.

Demi I guess is always possible however, but probably unlikely at this point.

[Vorx]

I see, i don't really use caster classes, RDM will be the first but its a melee/caster.
As for Demi as i said i'm still surprised it wasn't for Dark, back in FFXI it was one of their signature spells if i recall right.