Black Mage Revamp

[Krr]

Nobody is asking for pumice stones and things like that.

Pining for the 'real black mage' of nostalgic 'classical final fantasy' is pining for exactly that. We are pointing out that it's a terrible, flawed, boring design that works nothing like people claim it did.

I'd like to see black mage remain as it is with small tweaks to spells such as Freeze that offer neither utility nor have a place in a rotation. All three elements (Fire, Ice, Lightning) have a core place in an optimized BLM rotation. Anyone stating that the class is 'just a fire mage' isn't doing their theorycraft right, because thundercloud procs and filler blizzards are essential parts of the job's spell rotation.

Remove elemental resistances from all characters and replace them with a single magic defense modifier. Enemies don't actually use elemental defenses themselves; all player-based magic in the game is simply 'magic damage' with tooltip fluff added. Allow players to convert existing elemental materia into materia that isn't trash.

There. Black Mage, and terrible legacy elemental resistance mechanics, are fixed.