Getting back different tier spells?

[BruceyBruceyBangBang]

I really think what you are saying was the original plan. and I believe it probably would be like that in ARR.
At the time they took out the tiered spells, ARR was already in the works and it made no sense to put the work
in to making a visually changing spell animation for the current verison. I really believe this came up way back
during the change and that was the reason they didn't do it in this stage of the game.

I'm almost certain I read this as well. I'll attempt to find this somewhere. I hope it isn't in an interview and is in a dev post. That'll make it easier.