A question about Spells.

[Desudro]

In FFXI the suffix was used to tell you what the spell did as a class of spell.

No suffix: single target (either you or someone else)
-ra: self-target AoE
-ga: AoE on another target
-ja: AoE on another target that applied an elemental debuff according to the element of the spell. (The exception to this may have been the Curaja added later on...I'd have to ask my wife)

Each spell in each class was then numbered I, II, III, etc. for more potent versions of that spell.