Reconvene the Magic Council Please - Spell names in 5.0 please fix. [Request]

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Originally Posted by Niwashi

I agree with the OP. The numbers are fine when they're meaningful, i.e. when they actually indicate a higher power of the same type of spell. But the name itself should indicate when we're dealing with a completely different type of spell. Using suffixes for types and numbers for potency makes both type and potency more clear.

(As an added bonus, it would satisfy both people nostalgic for the traditional FF suffix naming and those who find numbers clearer than suffixes, since it uses both where each works best.)

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I really do not get why they went this route when FFXI had cura line (1-III ) Curaga (I - V) and cure (I- VI)
Firaja, Firaga (I-III) Fira (I-III)

So why do we have fire II when it has nothing to do with fire I or Fire III, thunder II/ thunder IV when they are not related to thunder I or thunder III?

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Originally Posted by Vstarstruck

I really do not get why they went this route when FFXI had cura line (1-III ) Curaga (I - V) and cure (I- VI)
Firaja, Firaga (I-III) Fira (I-III)

So why do we have fire II when it has nothing to do with fire I or Fire III, thunder II/ thunder IV when they are not related to thunder I or thunder III?

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Personally, I'd love to see an upgrade to "Fire 2" but what do they call it... "Fire 5"... or give us a "Fire 5" and then make it "Fire 6"... it presents problems as the game continues to grow.

That's why I'm hoping we can get some traction on this, I don't see it happening until an expansion when so much is updated and changed.

To illistrate the changes a bit more:

Fire 1 ===> Fire 1
Fire 3 ===> Fire 2
Fire 4 ===> Fire 3

Fire 2 ===> Firaga 1
New Spell Upgrade ===> Firaga 2

Thunder 1 ===> Thunder 1
Thunder 3 ===> Thunder 2

Thunder 2 ===> Thundaga 1
Thunder 4 ===> Thundaga 2

I'd still prefer changing the names of the AoE spells (look at previous posts) over going the FFXI route (where it'll look messy/ugly in XIV since it doesn't have a spell list as big as XI).

Simply use the name they use in Japanese as they shoudl've done from the start and remove this eng
numerical BS

There all done