Fun fact: Conjurer used to have all the elements.
While a lot of the abilities have now been retconned through massive changes to pretty much everything, 1.0, patch 1.20 and 2.0-current have quite a few differences.
http://www.reddit.com/r/ffxiv/comments/2...lity_list/
http://www.final-fantasy-14.org/abilitie...mit=Filter
So on wondering about that, if Conjurer abilities are basically borrowed from the land/Elementals, one could conjure say, fire. However, it's still a fundamentally different way of casting than Thaumaturgy, as Sounsyy pointed out.
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On topic, one doesn't have to be a healer as a CNJ. They do have a decent amount of offensive spells. It's a case where the game mechanics requiring them to be healers forces them into a narrowed role.
While a lot of the abilities have now been retconned through massive changes to pretty much everything, 1.0, patch 1.20 and 2.0-current have quite a few differences.
http://www.reddit.com/r/ffxiv/comments/2...lity_list/
http://www.final-fantasy-14.org/abilitie...mit=Filter
So on wondering about that, if Conjurer abilities are basically borrowed from the land/Elementals, one could conjure say, fire. However, it's still a fundamentally different way of casting than Thaumaturgy, as Sounsyy pointed out.
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On topic, one doesn't have to be a healer as a CNJ. They do have a decent amount of offensive spells. It's a case where the game mechanics requiring them to be healers forces them into a narrowed role.
