Removing elemental nukes from WHM

[Alaltus]

Lore aside, since that seems to be the biggest defense in removing CNJ/WHM's elemental spells, giving the elements back to BLM would create a better battle mechanic for BLM, introduce less thunder-only-spam, and potentially make BLM a much more fun job to play, while truly not affecting WHM's ability to deal damage.

Except the issue isn't that Black Mage doesn't have all the elements. Which players like to forget, it's that the three elements they do have aren't usable most of the time besides thunder. Fix their elements and voila problem solved.

This won't really happen, I am 99% sure of it, however it is slightly bothersome to me how BLM will indeed miss a large portion of iconic BLM spells (ancient magic) and WHM will miss their iconic divine nukes. Giving these spells to a completely different class will throw a lot of things out of wack I feel.

Black Mage might miss some nukes it has been able to cast like Quake, Tornado and Flood but i imagine White Mage will get Holy spells unlocked no matter what happens. Just let Black Mage weild the Dark Element/Non Elemental spells its not outside their lore to do so. Like why not have a Bio nuke again like in past games? i'm sure SE could make it work. Give them spells to make up for times when they cannot take advantage of a weakness they dont always need to be doing optimal damage.

So if everyone were to ignore the lore for just one moment, do you not agree that it would improve the battle mechanic of BLM to give them the 6 elements, and reintroduce elemental affinity that actually means something? Is giving WHM's equivalent spells to their current skillset, with different names and animations not enough?

This is a genuine question, and the reason I made the thread in the first place really. I mean something like this in the lore can easily be adjusted. Our whole continent practically blew up, what is to say that Conjurers didn't turn to higher powers (divine).

Yes and no... giving Black Mage all the elements isn't a magic wand, it won't magically fix the issues Black Mage currently has especially if those spells end up utility based like the rest. The issue is that Utility is getting in the way of making the decision to take advantage of a weakness. So long as they dont fix that you will find that Black Mage can't and wont make full use of the Elements they weild however many that may be.