Getting back different tier spells?

[KoujiGeki]

well if you read books about magic or watch animes, they tend to go from boys who learning just to summon a flicker of fire like a match takes ALOT of concentration and effect. Many of years later after casting fire over and over and over they get use to it Now they can make a Fire ball in their hands while not even thinking about it. And yes while being attacked and having to run from other spells or sword. But then even years later he could be and old man and ccould cast an Inferno by batting his eyelash.

[Seig345]

I don't think we need actual spell tiers, but if the same spell simply looks more impressive every 15-20 levels or so (as in, it's the same spell down the line, but as the OP illustrated, the Fire spell's visual effects at level 1 vs level 20 would be drastically different), I'm all for that. No having to re-balance diddly squat, but gives more of a visual reason as to why the exact same spell is doing more damage down the line.

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[Shougun]

I don't think we need actual spell tiers, but if the same spell simply looks more impressive every 15-20 levels or so (as in, it's the same spell down the line, but as the OP illustrated, the Fire spell's visual effects at level 1 vs level 20 would be drastically different), I'm all for that. No having to re-balance diddly squat, no superfluous extra spells, but gives more of a visual reason as to why the exact same spell is doing more damage down the line.

Edit: Seig edited his post so this makes less sense

Tiers are not superfluous. Though they do take up room lol.

Being able to cast a faster spell, or a cheaper spell on demand was useful tactically.

[Seig345]

Tiers are not superfluous. Though they do take up room lol.

Being able to cast a faster spell, or a cheaper spell on demand was useful tactically.

I didn't think that bit through XD I will edit that part out.

[Jynx]

The current magic system suffers from over-simplification at the cost of depth. Adding Additional effects to your spells and make some AOE and others not, is not tactical it reeks of a bad attempt to treat spells like skills instead of spells.

[Arcell]

The current magic system suffers from over-simplification at the cost of depth. Adding Additional effects to your spells and make some AOE and others not, is not tactical it reeks of a bad attempt to treat spells like skills instead of spells.

Well this is what people wanted. We used to have the ability to turn AoE on and off but people complained that it was too much for them to worry about and that it was handled poorly. I think a single button press to toggle it was fine, apparently though they saw fit to remove it. This is what people wanted.

I'm not sure we need tier spells back, especially considering we do have tier spells (thunder, fire, blizzard, cure). They're just not numbered. A visual change over the course of leveling is fine but to that end, how impressive would a max level Firaga need to be to accommodate that?