Elemental Magic Adjustments Continued

[Teiei]

No spell tiers, no elemental resistances/wheel, no full elements for BLM (they're split between CNJ and THM), no debuffs (Arcanist will change that, luckily), blah blah blah.

Because BLMs in FFXI have always made use of their full list of elements... right?
Don't kid yourself, BLMs have only ever focused on using thunder/blizzard (unless the enemy was heavily resistant) because there has never been a reason to use anything else. There are almost no enemies in the game that actually take extra damage to a particular element.

Far as I can see the only major change to occur with this adjustment, in terms of spell selection, is that BLMs will spam stone/water instead of thunder/blizzard. So instead of actually balancing the elements they're only shifting the favored elements that everyone will flock towards. The balance of efficiency on spell elements will be extremely skewed in favor of earth and water.

I'd like it if you could spread the efficiency around a bit here; otherwise the result will be more of the same with a different element hording all the attention. Please consider the situation and give us some reason to spread our spell usage around to all the elements.

[Daemon]

Because BLMs in FFXI have always made use of their full list of elements... right?
Don't kid yourself, BLMs have only ever focused on using thunder/blizzard (unless the enemy was heavily resistant) because there has never been a reason to use anything else. There are almost no enemies in the game that actually take extra damage to a particular element.

Far as I can see the only major change to occur with this adjustment, in terms of spell selection, is that BLMs will spam stone/water instead of thunder/blizzard. So instead of actually balancing the elements they're only shifting the favored elements that everyone will flock towards. The balance of efficiency on spell elements will be extremely skewed in favor of earth and water.

I'd like it if you could spread the efficiency around a bit here; otherwise the result will be more of the same with a different element hording all the attention. Please consider the situation and give us some reason to spread our spell usage around to all the elements.

I'm already removing all my merits off Ice and Thunder and putting them into Stone and water. Seems like efficiency overrules and Ice and Thunder is just going to cost too much MP. Although I must give Motenten credit for a wonderful job at the new spreadsheet.

[Chimerawizard]

I have almost finished converting my potency merits over. Next is AM2.

It has given me use for the 30 merits I was just sitting on.