Thank you Totorixiii.


Time mage is a classic and iconic Final Fantasy job. It is distinct and highly strategic.

However since the main argument seems to stem from future RDM players and them wanting our spells or what not lemme just mention, even if SE gives RDM haste they'll give Time Mage job traits that beef up our haste as well as give us ga and aoe versions of spells. I think some of the problems come from RDM players not knowing what a real RDM is anymore and what makes it unique in Final Fantasy games (Dual Cast).

Anyhow in the future of FFXIV I plan on seeing all the traditional absent mages:
Time Mage
Red Mage
Blue Mage

As well as more nontraditional jobs, Animist, Elementalist, Illusionist,

As well as other jobs like, Geomancer.


But yeah we can safely assume we'll be seeing jobs like Thief, Dark Knight, Ninja and Samurai in the near future but there still is a giant gap between melee and mages right now. Also for Dark Knight I hope they don't do what they did in 11 and give it low level black magic and instead focus on giving it abilities to use their HP to deal more damage as well as draining the enemies.