Job Idea: Time Mage (DPS)

[Kazrah]

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

[Mimilu]

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

While Tidus isn't a Time Mage, he did have elements of time manipulation on his part of the Sphere Grid (Haste/Hastega, Slow/Slowaga, Delay Attack/Buster, and Quick Hit).
Like with my Blue Mage Healer concept, I thought it could be interesting to link it more to a character verses trying to create a job that is an amalgamation of several iterations, like how jobs seem to be usually made in XIV. Especially for Time Mage, who is generally just a buff-heavy caster. I thought going a traditional caster route would make it too similar to AST and maybe even BLM and/or SMN.

And I know what I said when I said "anachronistic". >w>

[Kazrah]

I thought going a traditional caster route would make it too similar to AST and maybe even BLM and/or SMN.

It depends on how you set up their toolkit. The Time Mage concept I did was a traditional caster, but it worked around a time bomb mechanic that would stack up on a mob whenever you reset the duration on a general dot, a "fast forward" ability that would make the time bomb explode and remove the general dot to deal its sum total damage, and a gateway spell that would work like two-way teleport ability. The end result was a caster more specialized in mobility and dot/debuff juggling fairly different from SMN with a more gear-based aesthetic like the Time Mage of the Bravely Series.