Job Idea: Time Mage (DPS)

[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.