Thread: From Scratch: 6.0 Progression Systems

Originally Posted by Kaiserdrache

* Remove the silly numbers from items and skills, and give these things proper different names, these permanent Item I, II, III, IV ect and Skill I, II ,III and so on, look so extremely UGLY and totally uncreative, as if the responsible devs have lost their creativity to come up with good names..seriously, or they are lazy just to add on everything all the time roman numbers only, than to think for 1 minute over a better sounding item/skill name, that needs no numbers to let the player see, that a skill or item has upgraded versions... youi now, languages have superlatives, words ,with that you can easily describe, that somethign is better than X, more developed, stronger, longer lasting whatever ect. make usage of language, not numbers

Technically, there's actually in-game lore around the numbering system.

In the Great Gubal Library there's a book that details a group of mages running into an issue with previous naming conventions. As I recall, it was due to someone discovering a spell more potent than Curaga and they were trying to figure out how to name it. Before finally deciding that the most logical thing to do was to instead name spells with a base name depending on what form they take and then a number to designate its relative power.

Originally Posted by Kaiserdrache

Console FFs of the later generations also didn't use anymore the silly numbers, but changed the higher forms of skills/spells by changing the spelling of the skill/spell, and thats something, that can be done theoretically unendlessly. Example: Out if Thunder 1,2,3 became Thunder, Thundara, Thundaga and as tier 4 Thundaja

Yeah, but like I said, in the game, there exists documentation that talks about how the mage council decided to do away with the awkward suffixes that they would have to completely make up a new precedent for each time a new, more powerful spell was added.

Instead favouring the more logical and straightforward naming convention involving just using numbers to denote power level of the spell in question.

I mean, talking about how currently there are only rank 4 skills as the highest tier... But what about in Shadowbringers? What about the expansion after it? The expansion after that?

What does it add to the game to run around casting "Cureuraz" as opposed to Cure X?

Personally, I did find it jarring to go to a numbered system from the iconic suffix system. But in the long run, it makes more sense. With there also being actual lore backing up the change.