Talk:White Magic

Merge Black/White Magic with Magic/Staff?
This may seem strange, but I've noticed that pretty much every White magic spell either corresponds to a Staff, or has a Staff somewhere with similar use (such as the Summon staves from TS being equivalent to Illusion/Messiah). Likewise, of the 15 Black Magic spells, 8 of them either have reappeared as Tomes at least somewhere else in the series (and of the remaining 7, Angel, Arrow, and Dora are pure offensive spells, Medusa is the Gaiden version of the recurring "down to 1 HP" spell, and even the mysterious Megaquake has a TS equivalent in Earthquake). From what I can tell, the only reason we originally didn't think that the Black/White classification was equivalent to the Tome/Staff one was because of the mistaken assumption that Nosferatu (and Angel for a bit if I recall) were White magic spells despite being offensive spells.

I admit, there is no harm in having them split, it's just that their inclusion on the class template does scatter attempts to spruce them up with icons (a petty and stupid reason, I know, but...). It doesn't help that the only class that doesn't have at least limited access to both types are unpromoted Mages and their enemy equivalent the Witch.--Otherarrow (talk) 20:31, May 6, 2016 (UTC)