AOE Spells - Can they be renamed? "Thunderga" rater then II and IV?

With all these changes happening, now would be the best time to change the names of AoE skills. I hope SE reads this and adds this.

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Originally Posted by SpiritMuse

The German version does it this way as well. The French uses prefixes instead. Only the English version uses the confusing tier numbers that imply every spell is exactly the same.

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Again there's literally no difference between Fire I, II, III, IV and Fire, Fira, Firaga, Firaja other than some people here trying to be FF purists, with the JP/DE system Firaga is still single target and Fira is AoE, same with Thundara and Thundaja being aoes but Thundaga is not, on the other hand Cura is single target and Curaga is aoe.

Suffix system by itself not only doesn't fix anything, it does make everything more confusing. We need XI's system, AoEs should share a similar naming convention that is separate from single target.

Adopting FFXI's way, this is what we'd get.

BLM: Fire, Fire II (III), Fire III (IV) and Firaga (II). Blizzard, Blizzard II (III), Blizzard III (IV) and Blizzara (II). Thunder, Thunder II (III), Thundaga (II) and Thundaga II (IV).
WHM: Aero, Aero II and Aeroga (III). Cure, Cure II and Curaga (III). No changes to Stone.

-ara is AoE around the caster and -aga is AoE around the target. -aja spells were also AoE's around the target, but also enhanced spell potency with every successive use.

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Originally Posted by MiniPrinny

This is a matter of personal taste, but I would prefer if instead, we had the proper naming, but rename spells that are functionally different.

So, for an example, Fire I, III, and IV would be "Fire, Fira, and Firaga." Fire II would be "Inferno" with "Flare" remaining as is. In a similar line, "Thunder, Thundaga" and "Shock, Shockga." Likewise, Blizzard I, III, and IV would be "Blizzard, Blizzara, Blizzaga," with Blizzard II becoming "Cold Snap."

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Honestly this is the suggestion I like the most. It might suffer a bit, in that the -ga spells function slightly different (from what I can tell, not 50+ yet so I haven't played with the IV spells), and maybe some slight weirdness with things like Firestarter and -ra spells giving 3 stacks (just, in my head, it seems like it would feel a little odd that the "mid-level" spells have that level of mechanical complexity).

But, in terms of clarity, it would communicate purpose better than current names.

FFXIV follow the classic FFI/FFII/FFFIII model of spells. If Im not mistaken in french translation they use the modern spell model.

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Originally Posted by Jeykama

Lore-"based" or not, they went through all this trouble to simplify the battle system with new UI components and consolidating so more casual players wouldn't get as confused, then they leave in this obtuse numbered naming system.

I had a healer using Cure III on me because they figured a higher number meant it was a better heal than Cure or Cure II. I mean come on. It's dumb and needs to go away. Amdapor is a dead state after all.

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lel it's not the localization team's fault that people don't read tooltips.