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  1. 10-15-2021 01:10 AM #11
    kaynide
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    Yeah.. not really on topic, but the Elemental wheel as presented in FFXIV ALWAYS bothered me. Not quite OCD levels, but pretty near!

    I have always used Wind-Water-Earth for Gas/Liquid/Solid, and Fire-Ice-Lighting as energy (basically thermal dynamics; added energy making heat, removing making cold and straight up movement of energy in electric)

    Moreover, the 2 of the 3 Astral/Light related magic are used by BLACK mages and vice versa. That Blackmage based magic isn't all Umbral and White mage all Astral is mind boggling to me.

    You could just have easily gone with what FFXI did, which I also didn't really like: Fire melts Ice, which ???'s Wind, which erodes Earth, which grounds Lighting, which shocks Water, which douses Fire

    The best alternative I've seen is more or less what Fay2/Iscah say above, with three loosely representing Energy and three roughly representing Matter...but even then then the wheel doesn't match..as she says.

    Ultimately, I think they just made a wheel and we're just making up whatever rhymes or justifications that fit.
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    Last edited by kaynide; 10-15-2021 at 01:26 AM.
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