Please reconsider 7.0 BLM changes

[Ianmaru]

Yeah it's definitely intentional. what's not intentional is the current nonstandard play.
The game doesnt have elemental strength/weakness mechanics, so BLM whose identity is hitting enemies with the elemental spells they're weak against, need something new to make their elemental spells relevant. Their solution is make all the different element spells have their own use, so we have a reason to use all the different element.
And so they decided to make it like this:

lightning element: DoT
fire element: pure damage
ice element: MP recovery

on paper it looks good. but in practice, with the current job mechanic that relies on mp ticks, ppl find a way to recover MP without casting the ice spells. which defeats the purpose of making the ice spells recover MP.
So the point is they want all the 3 elements used properly, instead of having the ice spell avoided due to the nonstandard play.