We’re heading into another expansion without a dedicated aero/stone/water user.

Before someone says red mage, red mage was specifically created so that their focusing crystal made it so they don’t need to pull ambient aether from surrounding elements. Post BLM/WHM war where the rampant use of all elements BUT water caused the star to be unbalanced and over abundant in water aspected aether, flooding the star.

I can assume that devs know they haven’t added a stone or aero animation or upgrade since Stormblood, in favor of Glare/Dia.

Could we possibly be heading for a story beat in over abundance of stone/wind instead of dark/light (for once)?