Quote Originally Posted by Xeia View Post
Every time this topic is raised I see the closest thing we ever get to a consensus in these forums. Sure, people are against it, but there's actually no name calling in this thread. And people seem to want black mages to be the elementalists, and white mages to stick to healing, buffing, and holy damage.


While it's true that they're not the ever-present staples of the Black Mage class, that's not really an argument for leaving them in the White Mages' corner. They do appear as Black Magic more often than they appear as White Magic. Aero is an old White Magic spell, true, but has been Black Magic significantly more often. Neither Water nor Stone have ever existed as White Magic to my knowledge, and Water has all the appropriate tiers (Water, Watera, Waterga) available as Black Magic in X.

Just because traditional FF Black Mages aren't masters of every element simultaneously doesn't mean Water and Stone aren't traditionally Black Magic. And Aero's on the fence, I admit, but I'd still prefer to have my White Mages using light or holy magic rather than elemental.
No, there is no agreement on this, but rather you keep seeing the same 'blm sucks I need other classes skills then it won't suck' opinion from the same handful of people whenever this topic comes up. And frankly, until the people pushing for this realize that having more spells, ANY type of spells, doesn't inherently make Blm more fun, this topic will never get anywhere. Ask for changes in HOW the spells and skills you do have work...stop asking for skills and spells the game developers have already decided don't belong to you.

A Black Mage asking to to gain the ability to cast Stone taking away the ability from CNJ/WHM is no different than a PLD demanding they get to use Steel Cyclone instead of Warrior....this game doesn't work that way...how other games work is irrelevant.