I am wrong then about the damage types then, but don't all melees also have combos that ingore defense from certain positions?

I mentioned before that when I talk about fire/ice spells I refer to Fire/Fira/Firaga and Blizzard/Blizzara. They are the useless spells, along with flare. Freeze is really only good for it's enmity drop, but it's damage is great. How many times do I have to repeat myself on this?

Do you spam blizzard/blizzara on Gardua? Do you spam only fire spells on Miser? Do a parse on their weaknesses, i bet they won't be nearly as good as using Thunder combo. And when you run into a mob that has lightning resistance what would you do, you would still use a black mage when it's not optimal? Did you have the black mage use lightning on the basilisk in the in the drg af fight while the paladin/warrior kited the drg boss. Or spam thunder on the rock golem in skirmish?

Blm is a situational powerhouse. I want it to be more than that. I want to be able to go to every situation as a black mage, but until 2.0 comes we won't truly know what lies in store for end-game black mage.

Let's say the spells stay exactly the same right now. I will take your word on your miser fight, if you take my word on this.

If the spells work exactly the same, and ramuh or titan come out, are you really gonna bring a black mage to that fight, if their main way of dpsing is negated?