Quote Originally Posted by Shurrikhan View Post
[*] Full elemental wheel returned to Conjurors. Umbral/Astral magic returned to Thaumaturges.
This already weakens your proposal, as it goes entirely against the design for magic currently in place in relation to classes and their respective jobs. I haven't leveled THM to really learn how they're explaining the transition from THM to BLM, but full elemental wheel being given back to CON means that the job quests and WHM/BLM would have to change so that both stem from CON and have other mage jobs stem from THM (whether this is how it should have been since the beginning or not is moot).

Your overall system fits better in a single player RPG rather than an MMO. There's a reason why mechanics in general are so limited between the fact that you alone are not controlling all aspects of the battle, latency, delay and slow individual reaction times and so on. I will grant you that there's a benefit to not being entirely commited to one school of magic (the reason why WoW and games that followed use elemental alignments as flavor for casters), but I'm still not sold on this idea.