Something that's been disturbing me since 2.0

[OPneedNerfs]

Why don't signature ff spells such as fire, thunder, aero, blizzard, ruin, etc. Have their stronger forms named as fira, firaga, thundara, thundaga, blizzara, blizzaga, etc?

It was a pretty big part of what I personally felt was "ff-ish". Do our jp counterparts have them named differently in their clients?

[Nadirah]

Yup. They're fira, firaga, etc.

The fire I, fire II, is only on non JP clients.

[OPneedNerfs]

Yup. They're fira, firaga, etc.

The fire I, fire II, is only on non JP clients.

D: Strange decision by the localization team to change it then.

[karateorangutang]

Actually classically in the older FF games it was Fire, Fire II, etc.

Fira and Firaga and all that game around in the later FF games.

[Moonleg]

Probably because to someone for whom this is their first FF game (yes, they exist) the word 'Firaga' would have no meaning.

[Andevom]

The -a/-aga suffixes weren't an FF staple until FFVIII came around.

FFXI had both numbered and -a/-aga spells, where the strength of the spell was determined by the number "Fire II stronger than Fire I" and -aga denoted AoE spells.

[SpiritMuse]

It might stop the black mages who like to spam only III spells because of course III is always going to be better than I....

[Riardon]

I really don't like the current names. They look stupid and like a movie trilogy. I think they didn't go with the -ra -ga -ja names because in the future they might add more types of the same spell like fire 5 and 6. Still it looks boring to me. Also the healing spell names are also stupid. Physick really? What does those names have to do with healing.

[karateorangutang]

It might stop the black mages who like to spam only III spells because of course III is always going to be better than I....

I don't think that naming it differently would fix the inability to read an ability description.

[Sakuraluna]

Personally, I would have loved this. I miss those terms being used for the stronger versions of the spells, and as someone who's been a fan of final fantasy since VII, it would have been less confusing... but I think Moonleg is right, and I recall seeing a statement made by either Yoshi P or someone on the dev team a long while back that this was their train of thought; they were expecting players both new to Mmo's as well as to final fantasy games and wanted to keep things less confusing for them.