SE Whm is suppose to have water spells.

[Lemuria]

While water attack spells might be nice, at this point I'm happy to get some new healing spells. I suppose that, if anything, the catch is that White Mage and Scholar are starting to bleed into one another's roles where previously they were strongly defined. White Mage has long been known for it's exceptional healing capability, and Scholar has it's shields and instant-cast heals. Soon, White Mage will have instant-cast heals and Scholar will match on healing capability. We'll see how things play out, but I worry there will be little to distinguish the two when 3.0 comes.

Still, on the positive side we saw some great new spells included which will help immensely in combat. There seems to be a revamped Holy spell which has a cure element to it. Presumably, this spell will lack the stun element of it's predecessor in exchange. Aero III is going to be an area effect version of the original spell, and I believe Stone III will also. So finally some ranged DPS! Very exciting stuff.

[Hestern_Nestern]

I had been wondering the same thing, OP. Where are my water damage spells? But I also hadn't realized how many water skills we actually had. Esuna is my favorite spell in the WHM arsenal (I'm crazy, I know), so I am pleased to hear it is actually water-based. In retrospect, that makes a lot of sense.

[Chiramu]

I do believe people specifically are looking for attack spells with more cool water effects and not just blue auras.

If you want cool DPS spells you should play BLM instead of a healer role.

[Lemuria]

If you want cool DPS spells you should play BLM instead of a healer role.

I wondered how long it would be before someone posted one of these. Why do people hate diversity so much? Seriously, if you don't want cool DPS spells, maybe you should quit being a White Mage. Because that's what the update is bringing us. Ranged AoE DPS in the form of Stone III and Aero III. We're also getting a damaging heal spell which looks like an updated version of Holy.

So... if you're so dead against DPS on a white mage, there's plenty of time to throw in the towel.

[Greaf]

One thing to remember: VERY few Final Fantasy games have the player characters able to use Water spells outside of A.) Water itself, and B.) Summons (Generally Levi.). X is the only main numbered game I can think of that let you use Ra and Aga water spells, though funnily enough no water summon (probably because SIN was technically the water summon).

So basically going by the usual trend, there probably won't be many water spells at all.

XIII also have Water spell. However, they deleted the element for XIII-2 (and LR)

[Shippuu]

Is everyone just gonna gloss over the fact one of the new spells we were shown was clearly a water spell? The large barrier that's likely the skill mentioned as Asylum, meant to be the new ground targeted healing field. It's water, complete with flowing water and bubbles and everything.

Do people not actually look before they start complaining?

[Kotemon]

My current theory is that if Sch and Smn had gone over better with being on the same class. They probably would have added Geomancer as a dps job for Cnj and given it more water and a couple other element DOT's that Blm doesn't have.

[Tint]

I had interpreted that bit as "healing is water", or at the very least, not earth or wind, since healing is all that Sylphie can do. Of course, since it's not outright stated, you are free to interpret it as you wish.

okay, it's over one year in the past i made the questline,

but wasn't the story sylphie uses her own life-energy for cure instead the energy of the planet (elements)?

[Mugiawara]

I think Asylum is the Water one.
It's the BARRIER heal I believe.
I can barely tell if it's water but it looks like it.

[VoltaAsura]

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But lorewise, aren't all cure spells water spells? Technically, you would be correct if that is indeed the case.