The original FF Ninja was from FF1(utilizing weak Black Magic) barring that Ninja's were present for FF3 with Throw in remakes. Edge and Shadow are not the original Ninja's of FF. All they did was bring Ninjutsu to the table.

Machinist is just a bursty Bard. It requires 3 CC skills from Bard to be functional. It's gimmick is forced procs and a Gun Wizard mode. Said mode was tacked onto Bard as well.

Ivalice featured unique summon monsters...yet you could still summon them for a big move or effect.

Bahamut is only as a fluff satellite AoE attack because that's how they designed it.

Wanna argue Lore reasons. Let's argue Lore reasons.

Not enough aether to summon a lightning sprite rip off...

Enough aether to channel Bahamut, fire an ahk morn, NPC can evolve Ifrit into Belial. BTW Bahamut-kun is a Elder Primal. Guess what Ramuh is? Not an Elder Primal.

For BLM the book of Thal teaches you to pull power(couldn't possibly mean aether) from the earth feed your casts, open a polarized frozen pocket to drop a iceberg on an enemy, open a void dimension heat amplification pocket to drop a fire nuke while endangering everyone.

Not enough aether for ramuh though, bigger primals will require more aether so you may as well give up. May as well ask for an Odin trance in the expansion while we are at it. Another Elder Primal. Too bad he hasn't been killed yet though cause it's a sword and some bum touched it.

War of the Magi caused 2 Umbral Eras.

Bahamut caused one.


Lore for ya.

I mean the one BLM who summoned the Barghest is more of a summoner then the summoner. He lost control because he was a bum. But we're the WoL I.E not a bum.

I mean if they really wanted to they could easily introduce a new summon at any time with a quest that played out like "I found a spellbook that told me how to do thing. Kill these things and get me a Finger Sandwich from the Waking Sands and I can tell you how to do thing."

I mean when you have one magic user go on about using the planet's aether is bad and another who says it's all good do whatever. Sounds like a contradiction if you ask me.