Fortunate that both elements come with effects that increase it's own damage, such as DoT and Elemental resistance down. So your concerns about damage are moot.
But seriously, you're complaining that the elements on conjurer are not aesthetically pleasing to you? This isn't Fashion Fantasy.
Actually there is MORE variety. The primary gripe was that classes were fairly exchangeable and that there was little unique between them. What you're complaining about isn't that there's no variety in nukes, it's that you thought conjurer was going to be Black Mage. That's it. Nothing is preventing you from taking up Thamaturge either.There's no variety left, and if I just think about how greatly they changed the difference in dmg of using the element a mob was weak against vs using one it was resistent to, the future for CON looks like a nightmare.![]()
The combos here do different things depending on the element. Sure, Thamaturge/Black Mage has more, but you're not without your own choices here. They're just not as gawdawefuly huge compared to a Melee Jobs now.
Fatal error in your logic: Assuming Lore is immovable while the mechanics are fair game to change.Also, lore-wise, it makes no sense CON only has two elements left.
It also makes no sense that THM, who never cared about elements before, now got most of them.
Or PUG, which wasn't even a magic based class to begin with.
Earth and Wind make good forest elements (Water perhaps should be included in that, but we don't know where Water is going right now.) And Conjurer, lore wise, was always about more of a peaceful commune with nature than a violent burst of magical energy.
Thamaturge's 'image' is far more in line with Black Mage than Conjurer (which honestly held more ties with Summoner in my opinion. The mechanics never really agreed with the lore here.)
So this isn't an argument about lore so much of your view of it, and your flawed opinion that lore should not change with the mechanics. None of these hold weight.
You're free to quit. But your reasoning to do so without trying it out first is fairly shallow.