Elemental Spell Reform

[Alaltus]

My thoughts for blm would be this.

Make ice fire and lighting all high damage single target spell lines, then add two stances one that reduces damage and makes all spells aoe and one that reduces damage and enhances potency/acc of the debuff associated with each spell. Both stances would stack onto each other so for example.

Blizzard alone does 500 damage with very very low chance of heavy, with aoe stance up Blizzard does 300 damage on multiple targets with very very low chance of heavy on each of them. And then if you add the debuff stance on top blizzard does 100 damage on each target with high chance of inflicting heavy. Or you can choose to have only the debuff stance up for a 300 damage blizzard with high chance of inflicting heavy. Keeping the utility of spell debuffs and aoes while gaining the ability to deal damage equaly in each element to single and multiple targets.

[Shurrikhan]

My thoughts for blm would be this.

Make ice fire and lighting all high damage single target spell lines, then add two stances one that reduces damage and makes all spells aoe and one that reduces damage and enhances potency/acc of the debuff associated with each spell. Both stances would stack onto each other so for example.

Blizzard alone does 500 damage with very very low chance of heavy, with aoe stance up Blizzard does 300 damage on multiple targets with very very low chance of heavy on each of them. And then if you add the debuff stance on top blizzard does 100 damage on each target with high chance of inflicting heavy. Or you can choose to have only the debuff stance up for a 300 damage blizzard with high chance of inflicting heavy. Keeping the utility of spell debuffs and aoes while gaining the ability to deal damage equaly in each element to single and multiple targets.

Still makes me wish Fire and Lightning were more interesting, with more reason to not have just one element spammed varying only on situation (so, reasons for and entertainment in cross-element combinations), but this certainly fixes just about everything that's actually problematic.