Phantom Jobs are a step in the right direction but need iteration.

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I happen to really like time mage on PCT for the sole reason that Occult Quick lets me cast my motifs while moving in a CE. Swiftcast comet isn't the best available damage option overall, but it is the quickest way to generate credit if you're late for a fate out of all the options other than throwing money at it. Slowga is... less good since gold farming can be done easily with a cannons party, but if for some reason you can't get one of those together, it can make less efficient farms much less stressful.

Thief really got shafted by Occult Sprint not being 100% uptime. Pilfer Weapon is not terrible from a debuff standpoint as it stacks with the already existing reductions, but it's also unnecessary mitigation in current content. Not sure why you say that about ranger. Occult Featherfoot is great utility for any content and Occult Unicorn is basically Shake It Off on any class you want. Falcon is objectively pointless outside of Forked, though. It'd be nice if it could be used on static elements in CEs. I'd hoped it could be used on the rocks in On the Hunt or maybe the idols in from Times bygone, but nope.

Just a note here comet is the best damage option overall for any class using time mage, no class has an attack stronger than comet so it should always be prioritised

False.

The problem was acquisition. Some of the fragments had terrible droprates, and on top of that RNG you had another layer of RNG with the appraisal system. So you could farm 100 fragments and only end up with 10 of the essence you wanted. Casual players didn't want to spend 40 hours a week farming fragments just to be able to do the raid twice, or buy them off the AH for 100 billion gil only to appraise into useless garbage. If the droprate wasn't crap and there were more fragments in the economy than anyone needed then casuals would've been able to use them more. But some people are too greedy and wanted them to be rare and valuable so they could farm them and make money, and the content itself suffered and now the pendulum swung all the way in the other direction so there aren't logograms/fragments to worry about at all and we get less interesting actions to go with it.

This was a common misconception. You didn’t need anything that was rare to do a significant amount of damage. People weren’t asking for excellence deep profane and lost font of magic to run a zone 1 skirmish. People were just saying when aetherweaver fragments cost 30 Gil on the marketboard you can afford to not use platebearer”