[dev1206] Class Reforms & Action Lists

[AmyRae]

Actually Aero and Earth Spells, traditionally belong to WHM, not BLM.

Water is a BLU spell in most FF.

BLM always had Fire, Thunder and Blizzard as Elemental Magic Spells.

FFXI was the exception to this.

White mage had Aero. Once. In FF3. Hardly a tradition but technically not unprecedented. I don't know of any earth nukes they've ever had.

I will agree Fire, Ice, and Lightning are traditional black mage spells in many instances, so I have no qualms that they provide the "Final Fantasy" feel.

I don't even know where your idea about Water being blue magic comes from. Lulu, Vivi, Ravagers in XIII, and the black mage job of X-2 all had water nukes.

[Estellios]

^^^

Water-element spells started out solely with the Leviathan summon. After that, FF5 started the trend of Blue Magic getting the elements that Black Magic didn't (in this case, Water through Aqualung/Aqua Rake and Wind through the Aero line). It was Blue Magic in FF6 and 7, too. 8 on made it an actual Black Magic spell.

[AmyRae]

^^^

Water-element spells started out solely with the Leviathan summon. After that, FF5 started the trend of Blue Magic getting the elements that Black Magic didn't (in this case, Water through Aqualung/Aqua Rake and Wind through the Aero line). It was Blue Magic in FF6 and 7, too. 8 on made it an actual Black Magic spell.

Nah, your history glosses over a lot of water-based attacks. You'd probably consider it the domain of Geomancers and Summoners before you would Blue Mages. Prior to FF8, water was in 6 Geomancy spells, 5 summons, and only 3 Blue magic spells.

http://finalfantasy.wikia.com/wiki/Water_%28Element%29