Removing elemental nukes from WHM

[Alhanelem]

Flare is aoe around you, that alone makes it useless.

Subjective opinion. If you know you have a few seconds where the mob is not going to use a deadly AoE, you can cast it. It's also particularly fun with BLMs casting it in a group.

Necromancer in WoW had some fire spells similar to this that required enemies to be nearby (and on the ground)- that didn't stop anyone from using it in that game.

Spells like this can be effective if you know when to use them. I had a lot of fun with some friends on chocobo escorts where we would run ahead to where we knew the enemies would spawn, and start casting flare (because it didn't require a target) before the mobs spawned, timing it so it would hit them as soon as they appeared and instantly annihilating them. You can't do something like this with any other spell other than blizzara.

Yeah I do demand it be reworked. Because the split was the dumbest idea ever.

Funny, nobody complained about this in the other 12 Final Fantasies where the black mage (or most black-magey character) didn't have every element. So why is this only a problem now?

I gotta leave work, else I'd actually check black mage movesets in the chocobo spin off games.

I have FFF Chocobo's Dungeon on Wii, and Chocobo only uses thunder fire and ice on black mage. Interestingly, Chocobo uses the elemental ninjustu from FFXI of earth wind and water as Ninja.