Sophia, Ixali, Thunder and Aero

[Teiren]

I should pay attention next time, but I'm almost completely sure Sophia is casting Aero III, not Aero II, and it does indeed look like WHM's Aero III despite functioning differently. I agree it's a little bit strange for all three spells to have the same names as player spells but function completely different. I guess the idea is that players' minds will more easily read them if it's a spell name they already know, but I think that's really silly. Of course, it's too late to change now, but in the future I think they should give spells like Sophia's their own names unless it directly resembles a player spell like Aero III here does.

On the other hand, Sophia's Thunder III is much more spectacular and huger than her Thunder II, so it does give that similar sense of progression in spell power.

Meanwhile, I'm STILL mad about this II, III, IV stuff replacing -ra, -ga, -ja. In early ARR, Succubi used to cast Void Fira, and they actually went back and changed that to Void Fire and Void Fire II. A book in The Great Gubal Library (Hard) even pokes fun at such complaints for crying out loud...but I'm not really that mad, and I can take a joke. I'm just very disappointed in the decision and disagree with the reasoning used.