Quote Originally Posted by Malakhim View Post
If there were ever a listing for misinformed and completely off-base posts, yours and Altena's would be way up there. No offense, but this list and your reasoning are both horseshit, guys.
As for you, your attempt at insults and defaming is laughable. You do not have the diplomatic power to decide whose reasoning is "hoseshit" and whose is not. While reasons can be different, opinions will never determine which of those reasons are "hoseshit" or not. Try again.

<insert boring list that doesn't "fix" anything here>

OK re-writing that list was boring and time-consuming, but the point is there are PLENTY of reasons why if they plan for it, Time Mage or any other class/job for that matter could work easily in the framework of 2.0 which, because apparently certain individuals need to be reminded, is going to have a very, VERY different set of rules.
Next time, don't bother re-writing that list because you basically explained abilities everyone already knows, and wasted your time.

As for 2.0, I don't get why everyone is making the argument that we are blind rabbits and have no idea what is going on. It is pretty obvious that the battle system is getting overhauled in a functional sense (animation lock reduction, some major job reworks etc) but as a whole, it is still going to be the same game essentially. Combo system is staying but being modified, classes are being reworked, battle regimes are being reimplemented... What this has to do with changing the effectiveness of certain spells that are deemed to be either useless or OP (by my standards) is beyond me to be honest.

Just a small example is "Stop" "Immobilize" "Disable". Preventing a boss from performing any action for any duration of time has a high chance of being OP in any battle system... It also seems that everyone including yourself is putting a heavy weight on these being the main point of a "Time Mage". Look at that ability list again... You padded out 3 spells that do almost exactly the same thing. The only spells that you did mention have been given to Red Mage/Black Mage/White mage in previous FF's (not just XI, which is not where I have been basing my points off anyway). These spells are: Slow (red mage/white mage), reflect (white mage), vanish/blink (white mage), gravity (black mage/red mage), haste (red mage/BLACK mage actually).

While sure they are "time/space" based spells, implementing a whole job based around a few buff spells seems like a waste of resources. Spend that time on Dark Knight, or Blue Mage (an actual unique mage), Musketeer/Corsair... etc