Something needs to be done about elements

[BlueMage]

So you see a Bomb, and to defeat it, you use...

Fire?

Come now, SE, this is Final Fantasy. You use Blizzard to kill bombs, not Fire. Fire heals bombs, and yet in this game, elements (or "aspect", as the tooltip calls it) means abso-freaking-lutely nothing. Thunder? Earth? Wind? Don't care. Potency is where it's at.

What's the point in elements? Just to justify the elemental materias and reduce the likelihood to get vitality and critical materia?

Bombs have always been weak to Fire...

I get your overall point, but your example is facepalm for someone trying to lecture about the way an FF is supposed to work.

[MilesSaintboroguh]

Bombs have always been weak to Fire...

I get your overall point, but your example is facepalm for someone trying to lecture about the way an FF is supposed to work.

What are you smoking? Bombs in the series have always been weak to ice or water. They always absorbed fire.

[Itseotle]

What are you smoking? Bombs in the series have always been weak to ice or water. They always absorbed fire.

Iirc, bombs in II and XI were weak to fire. Using XI in this example because a lot of people here seem to be using XI as there baseline.

Source: http://wiki.ffxiclopedia.org/wiki/Bomb

[Kitru]

Iirc, bombs in II and XI were weak to fire. Using XI in this example because a lot of people here seem to be using XI as there baseline.

I seriously have to wonder why some people seem to think that FFXI somehow amounts to the entirety of the series. This actually goes over all of the various iterations of bombs throughout the series and you'll note that a massive majority of the time, Bombs are fire elemental, which, even if they're not weak to ice or water, means that they're immune to fire.

Going through the mainline games one at a time...

• FFII: weak to fire and lightning
• FFIII: weak to ice and water
• FFIV: neither strong against nor weak to any element
• FFV: neither strong against nor weak to any element
• FFVI: absorbs fire, weak to ice and water
• FFVII: immune to fire
• FFVIII: absorbs fire, weak to ice and wind
• FFIX: absorbs fire, weak to ice, water, and wind
• FFX: absorbs fire, weak to ice
• FFXI: weak to fire, strong to everything else
• FFXII: absorbs fire, weak to water
• FFXIII: absorbs fire, weak to ice
• FFT: absorbs fire, weak to water, strong against ice
• FFTA: absorbs fire, weak to water and ice

That's 2 occasions where bombs are weak to fire, 2 occasions where they're weak to nothing, and 8 cases where they absorb fire and are weak to either ice or water. So, yeah, the people that think that FFXI defines the entire series need to get it through their heads that FFXI is in no way a game to use as a basis for examining something across the entire series. FFXI is a massive anomaly in so very very many ways.