magical or physical?

[aodhan_ofinnegain]

I'm trying to think of a simple way of explaining this but I'm drawing a blank. Essentially either you're half-right in that the information in the combat log is correct, and there's some confusion on the server side about the damage being one type or another, or you're half-right in that the information is right but there's no problem using the information in our client to change the color name.

What I mean is this: If the combat and QA team cannot reliably decide on a damage type until right before deploying the update, then we might get the wrong information.

Think you're failing to comprehend what is said, there is no confusion on what type of damage is which as far as server side or otherwise, it just means combat devs don't need to go through two other departments if they, the Combat team decide they need to change the type of damage of a particular attack(s) for whatever reason just before a patch release. The only "confusion" is on the player, to check back logs afterwards to see if an attack is physical or magical or otherwise. For the most part, most attacks not all, are braindead obvious as to whether they are magical or physical. It can be a safe assumption every raidwide AoE in current content is magical, with the exception of darkness damage in E1 with Eden's Gravity, and J- Kick in TEA, and the birds in E7 are physical, but let's face it ofc getting smacked in the face by a bird is gonna be physical.

If you actually bother to read the LL Q&A with Yoshida in regards the UI changing colour depending on physical or magical, you would probably answer some of your own questions.
Link to Digest including Q&A, 4th Question: https://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/threads/427354
Basically if it was as simple as you have made it out to be I'm sure the devs would have done it already and Yoshida would have given the go ahead but the fact that he hasn't and given his reasoning then you're pretty much wasting your breath trying to argue the point. Also worth noting, once a no has been given it has never been reversed on previous matters acknowledged by Yoshida.