Quote Originally Posted by Krr View Post
The majority of players pining for a 'real black mage' are pining for nostalgia about elemental resistances and weaknesses that didn't actually matter in older FF games, because targeting weaknesses wasn't as important as figuring out how many flares, ultimas, or doomsdays you could pump out in one turn, and against 80% of enemies your element choice didn't matter.

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.
nostalgia is a big selling point of this game, it doesn't matter if you find it useless or not, if we had to care only about utility we could just have a big button with the word attack, because, why do we need a rotation? useless...

These little things are here to make the game more attractive, that's why we have nice looking graphics instead of a wall of text in a black screen.

Utility is heavily overrated nowadays.