As I have stated multiple times, if you guys can come up with another alternative to balance elemental affinity (perhaps with a 3rd mage job, such as Blue Mage or Green Mage) then I am all ears! The OP was just a suggestion on how it could be balanced. I'm not going to spit back arguments about all the stuff that was said since my last post because it has already been said in the previous 29 pages.

Zantet's post is a good example in how to make this thread progress.

In regards to that Zantets the only issue I can see with this is it still doesn't balance the wheel, so CNJ may as well keep their spells, unless it was more about opening up the possibility of balancing it in future level caps - then that would be a pretty good solution.

It would also improve the class/job differentiation.