Quote Originally Posted by ReynTime View Post
The suffixes "gyo" and "za" don't even exist in Final Fantasy. Za is strictly a KH thing that only lasted more than 1 game because of the localization ignoring the JP original.
It's default -> ra -> da -> ga -> ja. And they could have gone the smart route that XI took, by using the suffixes to indicate how the spell worked (ST, AoE, centered AoE, etc) with the roman numerals indicating 'tier'. Which would make sense considering how much this game takes straight out of XI.
The -gyo one is specifically a running joke in XIV (YoshiP's joked about it numerous times), brought up in one of the books lying around Gubal hard. Also you're the first one I've seen say they should've stuck to the roman numerals

CNJ/WHM used to have more spells that were very directly water and earth coded before Stormblood. Fluid Aura, Stoneskin (understandably redundant because of SCH), etc. Now their fantasy is angelic healer using holy power of light like the healers in 99% of the RPGs.
It's likely this is one of the reasons why they're adding action skins and we'd probably see stuff like Stone over Glare and AeroIII over Sanctuary. I'd much rather they actually make those skills come back and build mechanics around them, but I've been shot down by folks who prefer the current light/flower mage because it's cuter.

They've tried too many things with healers to fully satisfy everyone who played them and they also keep trying to attract a different crowd every iteration because each one seems to also lose players