So with all of this consolidation Why do we still have 4 different Fires?

[Hamada]

If you look at Ruin Mastery it says, "Grants a 15% chance that Ruin and Ruin III are upgraded to Ruin IV after a pet uses spell or weaponskill." What stopped them from making Fire change to Fire III in the event you got a Firestarter proc?



In 1.X they were labeled as Fire/Blizzard/Thunder/ra/ga but the development team thought that was too confusing for players new to Final Fantasy in general, or something.

fire I , single, fire II aoe, Fire III , single, is that is confusing.

aoe should have the ga, ra, etc

PS: if you respond, please don't state the obvious "they do different things" I'm sure we are all away are of that. My question is mostly if you were adjusting the battle system why ot adjust that aspect as well.

That is the answer though, what do you expect? have fire I magically turn into fire III on insta proc? but you still need fire III hardcast to change umbrals