Few ideas

[Calysto]

Carbuncle getting a ward similar to benediction under Astral Flow?

i never said it should be a "benedicton" i even said the exemples weren't good.
now what would prevent SE to do theses while not "stealing every 2h". new ward bp useable with 2h only.
op also gave for exemple an "elemental buff". bar+spike+enspell+some stat hardly seems overpowered to me.

and the "oh woes it's too overpowered" is still ballanced by the mp requirement unless you go heavy on ethers or are in abyssea witch already is a joke.

There's no reason to ask for new avatars that do not exist in the story just for the sake of having

that's the reason i said i saw it more like a spirit.
in that regard, cait sith isn't really an avatar either.

Fay creatures (pixie/sprites family) are not astral or elemental beings. They are a living creature along the same lines of other mobs and beastmen in the game.

pixies ARE part in the "elemental family".
as for them being "living creature"... it's heartless and insultig to spirits. they are too and have feelings, you know ?
also, having them as "spirits" let them keep their free will.

[Soranika]

i never said it should be a "benedicton" i even said the exemples weren't good.
now what would prevent SE to do theses while not "stealing every 2h". new ward bp useable with 2h only.
op also gave for exemple an "elemental buff". bar+spike+enspell+some stat hardly seems overpowered to me.

and the "oh woes it's too overpowered" is still ballanced by the mp requirement unless you go heavy on ethers or are in abyssea witch already is a joke.

Did you bother to read the examples of the ideals that the OP posted that I pulled from. Those types of buffs are already entertained by SE as normal wards. But aside from that, what you suggest isn't overpowering, ultimately it's useless.

Astral Flow was generally modeled after summoning in previous FF titles to deal extreme damage. Didn't really work out until... well if SE actually adjust them to work as they suggests.

that's the reason i said i saw it more like a spirit.
in that regard, cait sith isn't really an avatar either.

You're speaking in technicality. SE has deemed it doable to give us Cait Sith. It's always been ambiguous about what Cait Sith really is but an astral being, hence forth SE has been working on make Cait Sith summonable by SMNs.

pixies ARE part in the "elemental family".
as for them being "living creature"... it's heartless and insultig to spirits. they are too and have feelings, you know ?
also, having them as "spirits" let them keep their free will.

Misspoke on that part, but stop riding wiki. Elementals are physical embodiment of the elements. No feelings, no soul, no heart. Nothing more than a mass of energy/magic whatever you want to call it.

Pixies are still living creatures, that is evident in their behavior towards the players. Kill them, they fear you. Release them from bottles, they assist you if you're in trouble. Light magic isn't the only thing Pixies use either. Many, if not, of their TP moves are wind based. Also evident that they drop wind crystals, not light.