Quote Originally Posted by Estellios View Post
This guy gets it.

Not giving BLM/THM everything under the sun gives more room for more classes/jobs in the future, ones that specialize in different elements or different effects with existing elements. It's better for the game to have more than 1 attack magic Job in the long run. FYI you will still hit Garuda for neutral damage with Thunder just like Ifrit (who you do great damage to), and you are going to absolutely slaughter Leviathan and Shiva when they are released.

It's the same reason why WHM doesn't have a ton of support barring a couple spells, so they can release a class and job for it that specializes in it instead of having 1 person that can do everything.
Not giving the job that as per the lore specializes in elemental magic access to all elements makes sense?

Don't give whm everything, give it what makes sense, banish line of spells, pro/shell(I know it used to be there they removed it blah blah), cures, raises, status removals. Not elemental nukes, not bar-elements, not debuffs.

There's still plenty of room for other jobs that use elements in different ways, that focus on buffs and debuffs.

Saying, "Hmm let's call this the elemental mage, we should let it cast fire and ummmmmm what's another element?"
"Oh I know, thunder. That should make it a very well rounded 'Elemental Specialist' class that really utilizes the elements to dole out damage and can always find the enemies elemental weakness(assuming they have one)."
"Wait don't we have 6 elements, and then light and dark to boot?"
"Oh yeah, let's just toss a couple on whm, that'll make it gooder."
"Ok now that we've really fleshed out these awesome mage classes let's get to work on some EG content that requires people to class stack for the best times, cause racing is what people play RPGs for right?"

Does none of that look horribly wrong, cause really it's the conversation I say having taken place at some point, the one where someone should have stepped in and said, "Quite smoking that shit at work! Now find someone to rethink all of these ideas and get it right."