3.0: Elemental Weakness/Resistance?

[Myrhn]

Wasn't that big of an issue in 1.x and in fact actually offered -gasp- options on your weapon selection (since they also had more than base stats!) with relic weapon obviously being the best.

Yeah, 1.x had both type of resistances. People usually took BLMs because it was the easy button.

In 1.0 had both resistance but BLMs had all the element spells so if u encounter an enemy with a elemental resistance you just change the spell. Now we can't do that because they separate the spells between BLM and WHM. The weapon resistance is more realistic since those didn't change much but elemental resistance as right now would be impossible unless a class/job rework yet again

[Felis]

In 1.0 had both resistance but BLMs had all the element spells so if u encounter an enemy with a elemental resistance you just change the spell.

No
Before job-system: All element spells were on CNJ (except the Astral/umbral spells)
After job-system: THM/BLM got Fire, Lightning and Ice spells. Lightning spells were single target spells, Fire spells were AoE spells and Ice spells were Crowd Control spells (Bind, Heavy)

Fight against single target? use Lightning
Fight against many targets? Use fire and keep an Eye on the MP bar
The element of the target? not important

[TheRogueX]

In 1.0 had both resistance but BLMs had all the element spells so if u encounter an enemy with a elemental resistance you just change the spell. Now we can't do that because they separate the spells between BLM and WHM. The weapon resistance is more realistic since those didn't change much but elemental resistance as right now would be impossible unless a class/job rework yet again

I would be perfectly ok with WHM being changed to not have elemental attack spells, but they sorta forced the issue by the design of Conjurer.

I'm curious though: What was Conjurer like in 1.0? How did it fight?