Quote Originally Posted by Archwizard View Post
Even worse if the two new AoEs don't proc Verfire/Verstone under Acceleration.

Honestly, why do the devs seem hell-bent on making sure Ninja is the only job with all six elements? It makes sense in the case of WHM and BLM, but you ever notice we share all the same elements with SMN, aside from the addition of Thunder? Right down to the Fire/Unaspected mega-spells...
I believe the reason for that is because Blizzard and Water are loosely tied to WHM and BLM's respective lore/mechanics as ways to restore MP, which invariably means they'd have to draw out excess aether from the environment in order to manifest them at all. I'd speculate that it actually goes against the core tenets of RDM's practices to use either element because their common properties invariably violate those tenets. We don't really have proof any of that that I can recall though. I'd have to dig through at the Conjurer/Thaumaturge quests again to be sure. That's my semi-educated half-forgotten overly-confident theoretical guess, at least.