A Use for Classes.

[Yukiko]

I guess OP is thinking about Element wheel in older FF games where you can "prepare" before Boss Battles with increasing your resistance...
Some games you could reach a soft cap and a hard cap (hard cap results in absorption, healing you when beeing attacked)...
Thats why most Bosses had normal attacks, elemental attacks and some even had "all element attacks"...

Final Fantasy games where you had a Boss doing only one element and you could negate or absorb that element were boring games (i will not tell names now in respect of Final Fantasy genre). The Problem SE had in those games were, that those bosses needed something to make them "a Boss" and oftn they added oneshot mechanics, so you HAD TO negate the element... well not on all games with such bosses, but each game had its own weakness!

FFVII and FFVIII are good examples with element wheels, the absorption became a part of the strategy where you could get healed from blackmages fire castings if needed and the balancing wasnt that bad either, ifrit as example "could" use his best attack and you get full healed or his weak attack and you could not be full healed... futhermore you sacrify other stats when putting everything to protection, not to mention there is more than "one" element...

Element wheels are used in MMOGs too, so please stop that nonsense with single player games!
And just to remind you: element wheel is only "one" example of how it can be done, there are many other possibilities!

[Bishop81]

I guess OP is thinking about Element wheel in older FF games where you can "prepare" before Boss Battles with increasing your resistance...
Some games you could reach a soft cap and a hard cap (hard cap results in absorption, healing you when beeing attacked)...
Thats why most Bosses had normal attacks, elemental attacks and some even had "all element attacks"...

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Element wheels are used in MMOGs too, so please stop that nonsense with single player games!
And just to remind you: element wheel is only "one" example of how it can be done, there are many other possibilities!

Thank you.

I'm not very good at explaining things.