Request: Please allow BLMs the option of using traditional FF spell names

[Palladiamors]

*Chuckles* I remember when the spells were just Fire1, Fire2, and the like. Its kind of a nice nostalgic moment for me.

[YanderePrincess]

Hi,
I've been a BLM main ever since I started playing this game and BLM is my favourite FF class. Thus, I was disappointed to learn that the English names were stuck with a numbered system instead of the traditional Fire -> Fira -> Firaga. I originally thought that this was the case for the game in general outside of Japan, but I have learnt that this is not the case when it comes to the translations of BLM spells from Japanese to other languages.

In addition to this the current system is not very intuitive as it makes new players think that Fire 2 and Fire 3 are upgrades to Fire which is why one can find a number of BLMs spamming Fire 3 in dungeons because they believe it to be a direct upgrade to the original Fire spell.

Thus, I would like to request that we get the option to switch spell names to the traditional FF format, as is the case in every language except English. This would allow the people who like the current system to keep using it while giving the rest of us the chance to play BLM with it's traditionally named spells like in every other Final Fantasy.

Thank you for your time. I hope I am not the only one who loves the traditional BLM naming system and hopes to be able to cast Firaja instead of Fire IV one day.

"traditional"? I'm wondering how many FF games you've played? For the longest time, spell names were Fire1, Fire2, Fire3, Fire4, Ice1, Ice2, Ice3, Ice4, Bolt1, Bolt2, Bolt3, Bolt4, etc. Traditional is the numbered system. Even the games that use Fire, Fira, Firaga, etc don't use them consistently between games. In FFXI, for example, the single target spells were Fire #, etc., and the aoe spells were Firaga #, etc. I'm not necessarily opposed to the naming convention you're referring to (it would, honestly, make things seem a little less odd with how these spells work in XIV), but it's not really correct to call them the traditional names.