Some suggestions, mostly quality of life, obvious things

[Razor]

I would like the to see the following.

THM/BLM - Blackmages have always been able to cast all elemental magics, but for some reason CNJ/WHM which supposed to be primarily a healing class can cast black magic.
- Please let THM/BLM cast all elemental magics.
- Make it so Primals can resist/absorb damage for black magic of their element. I.E Garuda absorbs wind damage
- Make all elemental spells full damage. That Aero and Thunder spells are horrible.
- Give us the option to cast AoE with any spells like in V1.0 before it was changed.
- Fix Area of Effect so you cast them on enemies not yourself. Imagine me running in between a bunch of monsters just to cast AoE on myself.
- Had a friend become frustrated with how the AoE system is done in the game, this is what he told me in chat, I xxx out the name for privacy.

"[4:38:24 PM] xxx: so now i ran to a bunch of ants
[4:38:26 PM] xxx: aoe
[4:38:37 PM] xxx: and every one has a chance to land a hit on me
[4:38:48 PM] xxx: so yep.....mage job officially over
[4:39:00 PM] xxx: gonna try rng next"

Weapon Skills in general (an I know this is a long shot). People complained for Auto attack in V1.0 because there way way too much spamming attack. Now it's the same thing all over again but this time with WS.
- Please change WS so that it's not being spammed. Auto attack don't even do nearly as much damage so everyone just WS.
- Either introduce the need to build up TP or implement a longer cool down on Abilities or remove the Global Cool Down altogether.

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Sorry, I had to. To provide something actually useful to the discussion; I'm not saying your ideas are particularly bad but they were changed or are different for a reason. Correct me if I'm wrong but traditionally the "offensive" black magic in previous FF games as been limited to ice, fire, and lightning historically, and XI was the exception to this. The AoE toggle from 1.0 was kinda cool, but was clunky and caused a lot of balance issues. All spells had to have poor efficiency to make up for the fact they could become AoE. (See what Scholar did to XI and how it was promptly nerfed into oblivion for being ridiculously overpowered). Also if your friend is only using Blizzard to AoE things hes doing it wrong. Considering hes referring to ants, I imagine hes at Cutter's Cry level and at that point you have access to much more powerful fire based AoE spells that are ranged. Blizzard is for MP regeneration as well as quick getaways (see: the bind effect). It just so happens its a spammable AoE attack but once you get past the 20s and 30s it's damage is hardly good for much past getting easy gold in FATEs.