Quote Originally Posted by Renathras View Post
Honestly, Cure 3's name should be Cura 1. The idea is that Cure 1/2 are for single targets, Medica 1/2 are for multiple targets that need middling healing (or gradual healing), while Cure 3 (ideally "Cura") is for a short range but bigger healing, for when people must be healed quickly and can stack to do so as the trade-off.
There's precedent for it with FF11 too, afaik the number dictates the strength (Cure 3 is stronger than Cure 2) and the -aga suffix dictates it being 'weaker, but AOE', so 'Curaga 3' is a thing that can exist, despite older games having Cure 3 and Curaga as the same thing. Only problem is, they do actually use Curaga in JP, in fact EN is the only one that uses the numbers system instead of suffixes, here's an old reddit thread with some examples. EN being the way it is really backs the naming into a corner, but I guess there'd be a lot of confusion now if we changed Fire 2 to 'Firaga' and High Fire 2 to 'Firaga 2'