Thread: Reconvene the Magic Council Please - Spell names in 5.0 please fix. [Request]

Originally Posted by Freyt

Blizzard is the complicated one. Blizzard III and IV would be renamed to Blizzard II and III, which remains consistent. Blizzard II is does not center around a target, but centers around yourself. As such I would suggest not renaming this Blizzara. Of course, if this is the only one with such an inconsistency, this is still overall an improvement.

Which is why I figured going with FFXI's system just won't work (especially as AoE's on targets are -ga spells, while AoE's casts around the caster are called -ra). With the smaller spell list compared to FFXI, it just looks inconsistent and dumb (three Fire spells with numbers and a single fire spell called Fira). It's because of this why I suggested maybe renaming the AoE spells. Fire II - Scorch, Blizzard II - Frost and Thunder II/IV - Storm/Stormga. Going that route can easily allow SE to nix the numbers for BLM.

For WHM, they won't need to have their AoE spells renamed to something else... unless they get a fourth Aero in the next expansion and it's not an AoE.

Originally Posted by Ultima

By the way, the Cure/Cura/Curaga naming scheme exists in pretty much every other language's version of XIV, just not NA because they think we're stupid. The very lore that started this thread, I think in Japanese says they switched from numbers to the spell suffix system.

Not quite. French client uses words instead of suffixes. Examples: Soin, Extra Soin and Mega Soin.