Future of half the elementals?

[Enkidoh]

Come 5.0 White Mage will see Aero III removed, Dia being the upgraded Aero II and Glare the new Stone IV. Both new spells will be unaspected damage, not to mention Dia wont even have the defense debuff its usually known to have.

White Mage branches from Conjurer which back in 1.0 had all the elementals but was later split to only have the "nature" based trio of earth, wind and water. I get that White Mage is suppose to be light/holy based but losing all element type spells seems odd? Whats going to happen with this half of the elementals moving forward? Will we see them moved to a new job or will they just be forgotten?

Anyone else have any thoughts on this? I loved the nature aspect of White Mage.

CNJ only had access to all elemental spells before Jobs were added (Fire, Ice and Lightning elemental spells were specifically removed from CNJ because Jobs were added - so as for CNJ to be a better fit for WHM, with the Fire, Ice and Lightning spells given to THM for BLM). There was no lore reason given at all for the change over - story wise it's as if those classes and Jobs had been that way all along.

Personally I would have rather CNJ actually have kept the elemental spells (although tweaked slightly) and instead lost it's healing/buffing spells which would be given instead to a 'priest' type class that WHM would instead have hypothetically upgraded from, with CNJ instead upgrading to GEO (1.0 THM likewise losing it's Astral polarity spells and given to the same class, with THM turning into a proper elemental 'wizard' type class that would have meant a much more 'FF traditional' BLM).

But alas...

Maybe in another Shard perhaps...

[Mhaeric]

CNJ only had access to all elemental spells before Jobs were added (Fire, Ice and Lightning elemental spells were specifically removed from CNJ because Jobs were added - so as for CNJ to be a better fit for WHM, with the Fire, Ice and Lightning spells given to THM for BLM). There was no lore reason given at all for the change over - story wise it's as if those classes and Jobs had been that way all along.

Nitpick: Fire, Thunder, Ice were given to Thaumaturges before jobs were released as part of the reworking of classes to give them more focused roles rather than the hodgepodge of skills they each had. Technically this change was in preparation for the eventual jobs, but it definitely happened about 3-4 months before jobs were a thing.