Dear Devs fix the spells names!

[winxbloom61]

Okay and yes im being seriose FIX THE NAMES OF SPELLS

Fire II should be Fira fire 3 should be firage same with blizzard/thunder/bio/stone/aero/cure and so on dont take the classic names of spells from us PLEASE FIX THEM i seriosely cant play blm/smn/whm without getting angery at you for taking away the classic spell names

[DefendPopPunk]

They gave an answer for why they're named the way they are back during the beta. Something about making it easier for English speakers to understand.

[zcrash970]

That's quite unfortunate, but Yoshi-P already said that he wanted to use numbers instead of the -ra and -aga suffixes to prevent confusion for FF new fanbase

[zcrash970]

That's quite unfortunate, but Yoshi-P already said that he wanted to use numbers instead of the -ra and -aga suffixes to prevent confusion for FF new fanbase

EDIT: Traditional numbers were used instead the suffixes in the older FF titles, well for the English titles as much as I know, so you can see it as getting back to the original roots

[Exstal]

That's quite unfortunate, but Yoshi-P already said that he wanted to use numbers instead of the -ra and -aga suffixes to prevent confusion for FF new fanbase

Which is funny because the Japanese and German versions use -ra -ga, French using something weird and English being the only ones who use II, III.

[Alistaire]

They should be named FIRE FIR2 AND FIR3 and flare renamed NUKE, never deviate from the original.

[Enkidoh]

Winxbloom, SE didn't start using the 'ra/ga/ja' suffix naming system for spells in the English language versions of the FF series until FFVIII, all FF English-language FF titles before then (FFI, IV 'easy type', VI and VII) used, surprise surprise, numeric titles. And before you pass judgement, FFXI actually used both, leading to ridiculously convoluted spell titles like Firaga IV.

As DefendPopPunk mentioned, Ferne explained SE's reasons for reverting to the original spell naming style for FFXIV back during ARR's Beta test, so it's pretty concrete then that SE has absolutely zero intention of changing the spell naming system to match recent FF titles.

[Lemuria]

Fire II should be renamed Firaga, and Fire III should become Fire II. I'll never understand their weird naming conventions. While we're at it, Blizzard II should be named "A touch Frosty" and Freeze should be renamed "Wasted Slot", but I digress. Yes, I'm still bitter about them making Blizzard II so weak and removing Thunder as a cross-class. Sure, give us Blizzard as a CC... AFTER they make it pointless to cast. Grumble...

At least Flare lives up to the name, so no complaints there. But I do miss the old Firaga, Blizzaga range from earlier games. In FFXI they were so named to differentiate between AoE and single target. Surely if Yoshi wanted the spells to be less confusing, the 'aga' suffix makes more sense?

[winxbloom61]

well w/e im just going to say this if you havent played the other final fantasy cancle your account now AND GO PLAY THE OTHERS 1- TO THIS ONE U DONT BELONG HERE UNTIL U PLAYED ALL THE OTHERS

[Tsukino]

EDIT: Traditional numbers were used instead the suffixes in the older FF titles, well for the English titles as much as I know, so you can see it as getting back to the original roots

This was mostly due to character limitations inherent in older games, and was changed to standard names in every game after VIII, including remakes of every game in the series but VII (the only one with no remake). Official English translations of the original, II, III, IV, V, VI, VIII, IX, X, XI, XII, XIII, and all Tactics games use the standard naming, only XIV uses the numbering system instead.

Plus their reasoning is ridiculous to boot. "III" sounds like it's better than "II," which does not make things easier on newer players at all.