Jobs and Class, I am nervous now.

[MartaDemireux]

While BLMs haven't always had every elements spell in every game in the series, thunder, water(where did water go in XIV?), fire and blizzard are the elements thats usualy been present in BLM arsenal troughout majority of games.
I'd hope to see some more black/dark magic usable by black mages, such as Bio, Demi, Osmose, Curse, Drain etc.

Possibly thoose will still be implemented at later point at higher level cap, tho I feel the spell repetoar is a bit shallow as is atm (espec if ancient magic will turn out having a 15min cd).

I'd guess that jobs will have some way of enchancing their intended roles over classse tho, be it that they have higher stats, bonus damage, or just that SE makes classse a bit weaker in their roles, smaller adjustmens like that could mean alot.

While there is a small chance its not perfectly balanced I'd personaly assume S-E has put some thought into how to make jobs competetive vs classes for high level group content.

Water as an elemental attack has mainly been Blue Magic, Geomancy or a Summon. It was actually very rarely seen as a BLM nuke and I believe the first official BLM nuke featuring water was Vivi in FF9.

Water in XIV was originally a CNJ spell but they removed it from player use. It was hinted that cure may be water-based but no water potency gear has an affect. It is likely going to be the main nuke element of an unreleased DoM.

Edit: Scratch that, you could draw water in FF8. However, after 8 it became more common in the BLM repertoire but rarely ever saw increased level aside from the base "water." 10, 10-2, 11, 12 (by enemies) and 13 were the only ones to feature higher tiers.

SE did say however that paladin's were supposed to have lower HP but higher defense... I don't know what happened with that but I can only guess the differences between class and job are going to be shown primarily via JSE.