Time Mage Awareness

[Altena]

So... Your basing your calls on the very basic knowledge we have now? You can't possibly even see how SE could implement these spells in a way that doesn't encroach on other roles?

Better then basing my calls on no knowledge/assumption/intuition like you are.

You lack imagination, and faith in development team.

No. I lack the confidence that the community will find a use for these spells other then haste spam, which can be easily taken over by other jobs.

As for flexibility, like I said: It's limited to the competency of the devs. If they release a load of situational skills and spells, then yes it won't be flexible.

No hybrid job will ever be close to balanced with a specialist job. Unfortunately (even though yes, Haste would be nice to have, as would a few other enfeebs that is based on time/space) I can't see these spells being anything more then situational.

And again, through your logic there is absolutely no reason to add RDM. If you don't want any other roles blurred, you backed the wrong horse.

To be honest I couldn't care less for RDM. As I stated above, I would rather see other jobs over RDM get released as I mentioned previously, however if there was one job to have access to these kinds of spells, I would rather see a more iconic job (RDM) get released then a Time Mage. In fact I am hoping they do RDM so well that it is more of the melee caster that it should be, rather then the hybrid blm/whm with rubbish melee capabilities. After Red Mage is released, then I would consider reassessing the implementation of a Time Mage.

Simply having the armory system blurs most of the roles in this game.

I don't disagree with this. The armory system is flawed on that level, however I do like having the ability to change jobs on the fly - unlike XI where you would have to make a pit stop to your MH and spend 30 mins gearing up.

*edit* yeah sorry for the mega slow reply.. only have half an eye on the screen atm.

*edit 2* In saying all of this, it really is neither here nor there if they were to do it and pull it off, good for them. However there are other areas of the FF lore that I would expect to see well in advance. Red Mage being one of them (however they decided to do it). I am not so stubborn to ignore the concept and rage quit if they implemented it as more jobs = better.. But I don't think it should be on the "to do" list this early when there are other key roles that need to be filled.