Job Idea: Time Mage (DPS)

[Joe777]

The only spells AST has that could be considered time magic, are Lightspeed and Time dilation. The rest of the spells are all space/star themed. AST Does have Gravity, which was always a time mage spell, but it fits more with Astrologions them of space magic.

Then you have its card system which is based around fortune telling, which has commonly been attributed to constellations and zodiac signs.

AST as we have it is, if anything, more of a celestial mage with a few time spells and one space themed spell that time mages have always had.

The time mage created in this thread, while not accurately representing the traditional time mages (being a physical attacker and all) has more to do with time magic even if you simply just look at its meter, than AST does.

Time Mages are also more than simply mages that influence time and use gravity spells. To wit:

While not so at first, spells like Meteor fell into the dominion of Time Mages. This means spells like Malefic actually resemble Time Magic as it technically attacks with stellar power.
If you take into account the Time Magic ability Chronos then you tie in both Time Dilation and Celestial Opposition in the fact that they increase the duration of beneficial effects they placed on themself/allies.
While not technically the same thing, The Arrow card is as close to a Haste spell as we are probably ever gonna get.

It is true AST lacks a lot that Time Mage has, but at the same time what more is there to give it? Blink and Reflect might be a little OP in this game as an example. Also Meteor is already taken by Limit Break 2 for Caster DPS, so that's out. Comet would be a lot like Malefic so no reason to add that. Would be nice if we got Slow but then we'd need Haste as well to make it more fitting, which won't happen since we have The Arrow. What AST lacks though Square Enix decided to fill with another job altogether lol but I digress.

Also if you think about it, don't the stars and fortune telling also relate to time? After all, you are reading the Past, Present, and Future.

[Cherie]

A time mage would be awesome... whenever people bring it up, it reminds me of that anime Madoka Magica and the character Homura who basically was a time mage.

Basically a Level 1 Time Mage:


Level 70 Time Mage:

[DamianFatale]

I believe I heard Yoshi P say that Time Mage could still happen. I can’t remember where, but I do remember him saying it.

[Felis]

I believe I heard Yoshi P say that Time Mage could still happen. I can’t remember where, but I do remember him saying it.

Before or after AST came ingame?
Because I can remember that during the AST introduction they described the job as the FF XIV version of Time Mage.

[Mimilu]

I believe I heard Yoshi P say that Time Mage could still happen. I can’t remember where, but I do remember him saying it.

Before or after AST came ingame?
Because I can remember that during the AST introduction they described the job as the FF XIV version of Time Mage.

He talked about how it was considered back when they were choosing jobs to add to SB in a interview with Dualshockers back when patch 3.5 part 2 came out:
Of course, there other jobs were considered: when thinking of magic you might think of Time Mage, which could have been a good candidate, but of course there was a very high demand for Red Mage...

[Maero]

There was also mention of Geomancer in the Astro questline. Both Time Mage and Geo are too similar in a way to Astro to warrant these jobs being added i think, i would much rather have Dancer and maybe Blu be implemented.
I do like your view and ideas however OP, that is different

[Hitsuzen]

I support this, cause I remember spamming meteo in ffv XD

[Fhaerron]

Seems interesting.

Though personally I would love if we get something like a Necromancer or Warlock.

A mage using darkness & death ... a bit like Dark Knight but in DPS and caster form.

[Xlantaa]

I think is already in the game. Astrologian is a mixture between a Time Mage and a Gambler. We can consider the Astrologian as a Time Mage, even the artifact job gear in Heavensward is based on the classic Final Fantasy Time Mage suit. One of their iconic spells is on Astrologian arsenal, Gravity (Called Demi in some games). Also, thye have capacity of manipulate time-space with some spells and cards, like The Arrow card, Time Dilatation, Gravity, Ligthspeed...

[Mimilu]

I don't even know why I bother posting these job ideas here anymore. Most people just read the title and post the same sentences. =w=
I designed this for fun and to see if I could make Time Mage work in this game and not play like Astrologian.
Yes, I am aware that thematically, Time Mage and Astrologian are similar. That doesn't mean you can't differentiate them through gameplay.
It's annoying to see that people just come into a thread and don't even bother to read the actual post. They just want to belch their opinion based on the title and not actually discuss the subject at hand... =A=