Quote Originally Posted by Mimilu View Post
The use of melee came from a mixture of using Tidus from X as my main inspiration and jumping point for the concept and also wanting to make a job that integrates melee and spells together more (versus RDM, who mainly casts spells and uses melee as a finisher).
Tidus wasn't really a Time Mage though so much as a swordsman built around speed (Haste/Slow were just to compliment that style). In fact, Time Mage as a melee didn't make much sense to me until looking over how they were in XII.

As for the reasoning for older naming conventions, did you really have to use the word "anachronistic" in referring to Time Mage? xD