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    A Time Mage In Time (Time Mage Awareness)

    Back in 2004 when I had first bought FFXI, I had many wild ideas of what the game would be like, naturally as a Final Fantasy game I figured it'd have my favorite job, while installing I read the manual and my dreams were already crushed, no Time Mage... I ended up eventually choosing Black Mage (several days later, back in 56k connection days). Anyhow, the desire to be a Time Mage never died down with me, faithfully awaiting each expansion that rolled in I fervently hoped and wished I'd wake up one morning to find the newest addition to the game would be Time Mage.( random blurb: I even had someone in the community make up a time mage hat model to use in game) Expansions came and came and came, but no Time Mage, my fellow players stated to me that "This game doesn't need it it's spell are already strewn about the jobs as is." however that never satisfied me, and even worse when in a time traveling expansion Scholar was introduced which was very redundant in my opinion, since it at launch had almost no unique spells. Time marched on but no prospects of Time Mage. So when FFXIV was announced I was thrilled, partially because of the possibility that I'd finally get my wish, but alas it was not to be.


    However.... I spotted a ray of hope, with the new team for FFXIV and actively going for a more "Final Fantasy" feel it seemed only logical to add Time Mage which is just as much a Final Fantasy icon as mages named after colors.

    So what I'm hoping, and I'm patient with it... Is that after jobs like Ninja Thief and Samurai are introduced maybe one day we'll get to see the noble Time Mage strolling around Eorzea.

    I'd like to mention that time and space magic, along with being very mutable (changing it into however SE would want to do) is also a varied and extensive list of spells which most people don't realized are time or space magic at all.

    http://finalfantasy.wikia.com/wiki/Time_Magic

    Some sample spells and some possible uses in FFXIV (some already ingame)
    Bind - Crowd control prevent movement
    Gravity - Crowd control slows movement
    Slow - Enfeeble, increases delay for attacks / abilities
    Stop - Crowd control stuns target
    Haste - Buff decreases delay for attacks / abilities
    Old - Enfeeble decreases stats over time
    Teleport - Utility brings other players to Time Mage's location

    Some spells like comet and meteor in some games also belong in a Time Mage's arsenal.

    As for the basic class it could be called Horologist and it's weapon could be a time peace(pocket watch), and as for an attack animation(cosmetic) it could simply be brandishing the clocks face at an enemy with arm outstretched and have a small burst of energy with a tick tock sound emit from it.

    I might be rambling it is 6am, but what are your thoughts on this iconic Final Fantasy job?
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    Last edited by Endigiont; 11-22-2012 at 11:59 PM.

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    YES.

    I've wanted Time Mage since... forever. "Twisting space and time" would be such a a good addition to XIV, immobilising enemies, moving objects from one space to another (E.g., meteor/teleport). I know you've already said most of that, but I want to reiterate it all.

    Not to mention, the XIV take on the AF gear would look amazing!

    I want my orange mage goddamit! <3 <3 <3
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    well they want to add new diciplines of magic... time mage should be considered eventually by SE
    IF not already.. because from what i know.. if they had arcanist in 1.0 .. and they are talking about summoner... that mean they have another classe up their sleeves... yet that they didnt state
    CNJ 1 // WHM
    THM 2 // BLM
    ARC 3 //maybe blue mage or something called dark lol
    SMN 4 //RDM
    TMM 5? //ORM ??
    VS the current 5 DoW, that would be complete if you may consider this as a PVP statement

    even if im not sure when they said they were going to release PVP

    i find the subject interesting to read about because i'm not really a fan of magic

    what i would find nice to see is staves with some fine crystals in it.. i know yet we can break crystals with elementals rocks

    that would be nice for them... having somekind of high delay hammer... you know like hourglass staves...like if the time mage has powerful high delay attacks..like meteor.. as stated above
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    Any way they would want to do it would be welcome by me. My vision for Time Mage would be an enfeebler / crowd controller with a couple buffs. As for the AF armor oh yeah that would be amazing to see, it could be a traditional looking AF or it could be more of a deviation like that new Bravely Default game has it's armor.


    http://finalfantasy.wikia.com/wiki/T...F_TimeMage.jpg
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    Quote Originally Posted by Endigiont View Post
    My vision for Time Mage would be an enfeebler / crowd controller with a couple buffs.[/url]
    So a red mage / arcanist?
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    Quote Originally Posted by Altena View Post
    So a red mage / arcanist?
    Since RDM isn't in the game, no.
    Arcanist is DoT/Debuff, so it'll be weird splitting the spells between the two. I'd love Time Mage, but spell-wise I think it'll be limited =/
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    Quote Originally Posted by Fantasia View Post
    Since RDM isn't in the game, no.
    Arcanist is DoT/Debuff, so it'll be weird splitting the spells between the two. I'd love Time Mage, but spell-wise I think it'll be limited =/
    so what... summoner // Red mage ? from what i read they have the option to cast either white magic or black magic.. so yeah.. i think i made an error when i wrote ARC//RDM .. lol

    i think they should switch Red magic to Grey magic
    and just say "Red Magic" is now Debuff// DoT lol
    and call SMN // Grey Mage
    ARC // Red Mage

    or just call ARC // grey mage... anyway.. their arts seem dark so can fit either way.. lol
    lol i keep editing myself.. thats so confusing... damn colors...
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    Quote Originally Posted by XT_hydra View Post
    so what... summoner // Red mage ? from what i read they have the option to cast either white magic or black magic.. so yeah.. i think i made an error when i wrote ARC//RDM .. lol

    i think they should switch Red magic to Grey magic
    and just say "Red Magic" is now Debuff// DoT lol
    and call SMN // Grey Mage
    ARC // Red Mage

    or just call ARC // grey mage... anyway.. their arts seem dark so can fit either way.. lol
    lol i keep editing myself.. thats so confusing... damn colors...
    I won't lie, all of those backslashes have confused the heck out of me and I have no idea what you're talking about.
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    Well no, I'd like to see Redmage and Arcanist, and you can have multiple jobs that fill the same role, hopefully SE will learn that about tanks and healers <,< instead of having 1 of each and the rest of the jobs DPS lol.
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    I think at the moment, and hopefully ARR will fix it, but all the jobs are limited spell / ability wise at level 50.
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