Quote Originally Posted by Lemuria View Post

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Because the trade off is some classes don't get to do some content, which is incredibly exclusionary and ruins any marginal fun you can wring out of elemental wheels. Imagine no one using BLM because Ifrit absorbs their strongest attacks. There's no way to make an elemental wheel work in this game without tearing apart all the classes to give them all elements (which kinda ruins it anyways) or accepting the fact that some classes will become wholly unusable for some content, a disastrous decision for an MMO to make.