If green mage is the new caster job

[Renathras]

Honestly, the "buffs" would likely be oGCD short duration things with CDs. Think stuff like WHM's Divine Benison or RDM's Magick Barrier. That's what modern buff/debuff gameplay is in FFXIV. In theory, they could have some GCDs (like SGE's Pneuma that is a 2 min CD spell, but is on the GCD instead of an oGCD weave)

There are honestly lots of ways to do it, though I suspect the Job would mainly be a DoT based Caster with party mitigations/buffs/heals (Regen) as oGCDs of the 30/60/90/120 sec CDs. They could be GCDs, but that has more issues with the current gameplay unless they refund damage somehow (like WHM Lilies), which is possible I suppose.

[Chasingstars]

Honestly, the "buffs" would likely be oGCD short duration things with CDs. Think stuff like WHM's Divine Benison or RDM's Magick Barrier. That's what modern buff/debuff gameplay is in FFXIV. In theory, they could have some GCDs (like SGE's Pneuma that is a 2 min CD spell, but is on the GCD instead of an oGCD weave)

There are honestly lots of ways to do it, though I suspect the Job would mainly be a DoT based Caster with party mitigations/buffs/heals (Regen) as oGCDs of the 30/60/90/120 sec CDs. They could be GCDs, but that has more issues with the current gameplay unless they refund damage somehow (like WHM Lilies), which is possible I suppose.

The oGCD aspect would defintely be a modern way of handling things. Essentially Bravery being a slightly stronger Searing Light (5% vs 3%).

I doubt they will have a WHM lily system unless they actually commit to the gcd version.

The dot aspect has some ground as older installments did consider things like Poison (single target dot) and Toxify (aoe dot) as green magic. If they do make it a dot mage I would be surprised.