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2. As for the DRK black flame they found its animation looked off when mounted and such. It was a design call and frankly without having seen how it looked its hard to claim good or bad on that.

6. Elemental Materia are a legacy of 1.0. Personally I'd prefer if they just phased them out.
I think part of why that effect was changed was because it did hurt some people's eyes. I remember before they changed it, for me, it was just weirdly disorienting to look at and kept distracting me because I always thought there was something moving when it was just the DRK's animation. If I am remembering the same skill's animation, it was like a big orb of the "heat wave" weather in the desert, but red, and concentrated around the DRK. It was like having an orb of red drunk vision around the tank. lol. (Though this is assuming I am thinking of the right move.)

I think everyone realizes elemental materia are useless, and I think they kept it around as an RNG of sorts, like sometimes your spiritbonding just gave you junk. My guess is they did it to keep the market from being flooded with good materia, and it losing its value. But now since spiritbonding is practically useless, and they are actively making it easier to get materia in other ways, I agree it should just be removed at this point. So hopefully they do that.