Gods and Jobs

[Tsukino]

What they should do is make CNJ lead to BLM because they worship the elementals and use elemental magic. None of their curative or buffing stuff is ever mentioned in the storyline, it's just there. Then THM could lead to WHM by having you join the other temple in Ul'dah, the one made up of thaumaturges that worship Nald (life).

But this won't happen. It's obvious the development team is just going to give all the attack spells to THM and ignore the existing lore completely, because of the way they've already distributed abilities to THM and CNJ so far.

(Though, to be fair, I find the whole "life and death" vs "the elements" thing to be tenuous at best due to the fact that neither of those have anything to do with the job mechanics and I can't find anyone from the THM=WHM crowd who'll touch the buff/debuff or damnation/brilliance things with a 10 foot pole).

Because you're clearly having two separate arguments here. They're saying the lore taken by itself heavily favors THM->WHM and CNJ->BLM, which it does. You're saying the existing abilities (including animations, names, and descriptions) heavily favor THM->BLM and CNJ->WHM, which they do.

The question here is which the development team will sacrifice/rework in favor of the other, lore or ability distribution.