Quote Originally Posted by Radacci View Post
Like others said, water can be very destructive, so why should BLM feel mental pressure for thinking about using it? kinda silly.
You can make high pressure water streams drill/cut through steel; Or tsunamis to crush cities.
Likewise you can use fire to heat up someone who is freezing to death. or Lightning to resuscitate someone whose heart stopped beating.

oh really? except you could make a wall of ice as protection. Surround yourself in a block of ice, to absorb X damage, or nullify ice damage cast on you.
I'll answer your last segment first:

In nature, have you EVER seen ice nuture or make anything grow? Conjurers use their arts to protect the elementals and the forests - that means nuturing and maintaining the ecosystems in the forests, so to speak. Ice as protection around yourself still destroys the environment around you, yet doesn't provide the opportunity for said environment to revive itself. I speak in terms of the lore, as always when it comes to this. If we were to just talk about protection, we could have <insert element>skin, since ALL elements are capable of defending the user.

Also, I never mentioned to keep fire and lightning class-specific. I only ask for water and ice, so your relation to fire heating somebody frozen to death (which further my points about ice being destructive) is moot.

Now for water - yes, in some other universe, it would be so. However, water in THIS lore and game is mostly of the beneficial type, not to be used for heavy damage output. SE have already reached a compromise, making the Water spell a knock-back effect with low damage. I suppose I worded it wrong - for a BLM to utilise an element which is more orientated to regenerative purposes will result in a less-than-satisfied result. Not exactly 'mental' pressure, but it wouldn't result in a working ability with a BLM's damage dealing aspect in mind.

Shougun - if you used cold to calm your mind, why not use the cooling aspect of water rather than ice? Chilling your brain is very different from calming your brain. I just don't see BLM using water which is quite restorative-heavy in the game's lore as a heavy source of ability.