Renaming Abilities?

[Eloah]

the skills are numbered as they are because there is no consistency between them. Not all of the spells that would end in -ra are AoE spells. Fire II, Blizzard II, Thunder II (now but it wasn't always), Miasma II (when we had it), Fan Dance II, Veraero II, and Verthunder II are all AoE spells. But Stone II, Aero II, Ruin II, Broil II, Bio II, Malefic II, Combist II, Cure II, and Benefic II are all single target.

A good comparison is how the materia names are. In English, each tier is just a number higher. Bit in Japanese they used the ra, ga, ja, system, and now you have grade 8's being named Mega Materija, or something to that effect. So each system has their strengths and weaknesses. While the ra, ga, ja system is more "iconic" what happens when you go beyond the system? Number can always be added upon, but ever wonder why we haven't gotten a Stone V, or Fire V? There is nothing beyond the ja suffix, so they would have to create a new one.

[Iscah]

I feel like numbers should only indicate spell strength, not group multiple effects under (say) the label "Fire" when some are single, some AoE, etc.

As for renaming spells, I'd love to be able to do that so I can rename all the cryptically named ones to things that remind me what they do.

[ReiMakoto]

The reason why the english version and only the english version uses the 1-2-3 ECT affixes for the spells is because of history. The original translations of Final Fantasy in the west used numeric values for spells, all the way up to I believe final fantasy 8s release? Re-Releases of the older games since use the a. aga, aja now, but for the localisation of 14 they decided to use the numbers as that is what they thought westerners would be more familiar with it

[SavishSalacious]

Would anyone be interested in being able to rename your class features. Like, I'm not a fan of how spells are named Fire 1/2/3/4 and would rather use names like Fira/Firaga/Firaja and so forth. Thoughts?

No because you don't stop using fire once you learned fire 2, as you don't stop using 2 once you learned 3 and you never stop using that once you use 4. People assume 4 is better then 3, this is not a single player Game. it doesn't work that way. Learn your rotation. Thanks.

[Dragonexx]

No because you don't stop using fire once you learned fire 2, as you don't stop using 2 once you learned 3 and you never stop using that once you use 4. People assume 4 is better then 3, this is not a single player Game. it doesn't work that way. Learn your rotation. Thanks.

Well, for starters, I main BLM and know my rotation quite well. Not sure what made you think I don't. This is more about customization for fun, being able to just change the name of your abilities, just for personal aesthetic.

[lolicon09]

No because you don't stop using fire once you learned fire 2, as you don't stop using 2 once you learned 3 and you never stop using that once you use 4. People assume 4 is better then 3, this is not a single player Game. it doesn't work that way. Learn your rotation. Thanks.

You should learn to read tho

[Fynlar]

No because you don't stop using fire once you learned fire 2, as you don't stop using 2 once you learned 3 and you never stop using that once you use 4. People assume 4 is better then 3, this is not a single player Game. it doesn't work that way. Learn your rotation. Thanks.

Your tone is completely unnecessary. There is nothing about the OP's post that suggests they don't know their rotation or how to play.

[tymora]

The original JP convention is still Fire, Fira...etc
Only the non-JP versions changed.

[Astrus]

The original JP convention is still Fire, Fira...etc
Only the non-JP versions changed.

And all of them do their own thing, as far as I'm aware.

Only the English localization changed the spell name to include roman numerals.
The German localization uses the -ra/ga/ka (notably not -ja for the fourth iteration of a spell) suffixes (but uses roman numerals for Materia).
French uses Extra/Mega/Giga as a prefix.

It's at the point where every time I refer to a spell by it's actual name instead of it's general function I automatically use Auto Translate because there's no real consistency across languages at all and just because people chat in a language doesn't mean that that's their client language.

[Feronar]

Also, in the early FF games, like back on the Super Nintendo, the white mage's big powerful offensive spell was called Pearl. I wonder why they changed it to Holy.