Quote Originally Posted by wereotter View Post
Nova is the only spell I am aware of in the mainline, single-player titles that was permanently missable....

But even if I'm wrong in that regard, farming out all the generic blue magic in other titles takes less time than it takes to get MAYBE one primal ability in FFXIV. This doesn't make for enjoyable content, at least not for me.
Nova(ffX), annihilator(ffX-2) you had max 5 chances to get this per new game, Pandora's Box(FF7) due to a bug you only get 1 shot when fighting your 1st Zombie dragon, Trine(FF7) only 3 bosses have this skill. Rest of the series they've been good at not making them missable but if you miss early game abilities you have to jump through hoops to get them like the level abilities in ffV if you get to lv 99(at that point you are overkill but you know can happen) or goblin punch in ff9 wait too long and you got to go after a rare mob encounter.

FFXIV has gone overboard with the rng chance to learn i'm just glad once you know location of ability it never moves or up to chance to face it and up to chance(as in completely random there is no set way it will use the ability you want even if you wait 100 turns) the ai uses said ability (scripted ai does have its benefits at times :P)