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Do you have an actual source for water being underused causing a calamity or is it just your speculation based on current gameplay mechanics?

When Conjurer had half their spells given to Thaumaturge and the gameplay was redesigned, there just wasn’t enough room for 3 elements being equally prominent anymore, especially as WHM slowly moved away from CNJ and the elements were replaced with light spells. Not sure where else water was supposed to fit in with healers’ nerfed damage rotations so it was relegated to Fluid Aura and then Aquaveil. It’s not any deeper than that.

White mages from the War of the Magi would have mostly used light magic anyway. They didn’t commune with the Elementals and the Twelveswood did not reach Amdapor like it does now. The way WHMs from 1700 years ago used their magic would be completely different from the path our WoL takes on that journey starting as a CNJ, and so earth/wind/water magic might not have been relevant at all.


If there were a lore-reason for water not being used it would have been important enough to say outright and instead we have the CNJ quests and NPCs which specifically state that water is part of their magic along with earth and wind. This game’s writing isn’t exactly subtle and something as important as “water magic flooded the world because Amdapor’s WHMs didn’t use it much” would not have been left to subtext if it was more than just your fanon.
https://finalfantasy.fandom.com/wiki...al_Fantasy_XIV)

“The wanton abuse of the lands aether tipped the balance towards water (the other elements having been extensively used in the conflict)”

On the wiki pulled from encyclopaedia eorzea

It may not be fully linked to modern white magic who got its skills pruned in legacy but the 6th umbral calamity was caused by an elemental imbalance caused by the war of the magi as no side used water as extensively as any other element

The black mages focused on ice, fire and lightning, the white mages focused on light and earth and nyrm focused on wind, water wasn’t extensively used by any side