Is There a Reason Why Conjruers and White Mages Don't Use Water Spells?

[Zero-ELEC]

Of note to the whole "adding elemental damage and properties to all enemies and player attacks would be a nightmare" bit, that wouldn't actually be the case because they already do that. All attacks are typed internally, the typing simply serves no practical purpose.

Regardless, it would still be a nightmare to balance and would cause more problems to actually make elements relevant than not.

[Cleretic]

Of note to the whole "adding elemental damage and properties to all enemies and player attacks would be a nightmare" bit, that wouldn't actually be the case because they already do that. All attacks are typed internally, the typing simply serves no practical purpose.

Regardless, it would still be a nightmare to balance and would cause more problems to actually make elements relevant than not.

Yeah, it's not that it's technically impossible to make it so that, say, Broil does earth damage, doing so would actually be super easy*, but if they just did that alone then it wouldn't matter; you'd have to add elemental resistances and weaknesses to everything, and then find a way to balance that in a way that doesn't lead to something like 'now White Mage is objectively worse than other healers at the Anabeisos raids and there's nothing the White Mages can do about it'. And Zero's right, that would be way more trouble than it's worth even if it's not literally impossible.

...thinking about it, the healers are definitely the big pain point on that one on a design perspective, because at least you could theoretically cram all six elements onto a DPS or tank kit to make sure they've all got options, even if for some jobs it's gonna get weird. But by my count none of the healers even have six damage-dealing spells.

*Also we can't count out the possibility that weirdo spaghetti code means that it actually would be way harder than we expect to do this, and somehow adding elemental damage to Broil breaks Leap of Faith.