Elemental Spell Reform

[Razen_Arghast]

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.

Yes slaughter Leviathan and all but what happens when you go fight Quetzalcoatl/Ixion/Ramuh? Use the MP inneficient Fire combo? Spam Fire only (1 spell)?

The way this design is heading Blm can be totally shut down from content by design alone and there's nothing a player can do to change that via skillful play. It's poor design by default if you go like that and it might work somewhat now, when we have that little content, but it will get borked in the future. The reform was short-sighted to begin with.

Biggest appeal for me (and I bet lots of other Black Mages) was the option to play around the elemental wheel and the monster elements. It was my job to know what element every mob type was weak to and strong to and cast accordingly and now it's "steamlined" and boring.

Oh and, "Switch to another Job for the Thunder Primal" does not and never will cut it as an answer. The game might promote multi-job characters but in the end you still have your main. The one you like to play and chose to play. And having your main shut out from content because of mechanics design alone is just fail. This also applies to all the STUPIDLY melee-punishing content we have right now but thats a discussion for another thread.