This topic is basically reflecting on my biggest concern in the game right now. Frankly it's baffled me that the elementalists have gradually take on the role of healers, and the priests of life and death became the nukers. To quote something relevant I mentioned in another topic:

Why is the job/class that's all about preserving one's life force and raising the dead based "where the voices of Eorzea's elementals are said to be most powerful" while the elemental nuker comes from a temple and ossuary, a place meant to serve as the final resting place of a person's remains?

Anyway... we've got some pretty awkward times ahead if the lore doesn't get "fixed" quickly, and we have to wait until 2.0 before things start making sense again.