Elemental Magic

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Elemental Magic is a type of Black Magic that generally evokes one of the 6 major terrestrial elements to do damage to another creature; however, there are a few elemental spells that also grant negative status ailments on targets. This also describes the Skill which is used to calculate the likelihood a spell will be cast successfully, whether it will be resisted, and damage dealt of an elemental spell is calculated in Final Fantasy XI.

There is also Elemental Magick which is the skill set of the Elementalist job class from Final Fantasy Tactics A2: Grimoire of the Rift.

[edit] Casters

Job	Skill Ranking	Cap at Level 1	Cap at Level 37	Cap at Level 75
Black Mage	A+	6	114	276
Dark Knight	B+	5	109	256
Red Mage	C+	5	105	230
Scholar*	D(B+)*	4	101(109)*	210(256)*

• Scholar's Elemental Magic skill increases to B+ rating under Dark Arts.

[edit] List of Elemental Spells

The following is a list of elemental magic spells categorized by element and in order of Black Mage acquisition (or Scholar, in the case of helix spells).

Earth Stone Stonega Rasp - Status ailment Stone II Stonega II Stone III Quake - Ancient Magic Geohelix (Scholar only) Stonega III Stone IV Quake II - Ancient Magic	Water Water Waterga Drown - Status ailment Water II Waterga II Water III Flood - Ancient Magic Hydrohelix (Scholar only) Waterga III Water IV Flood II - Ancient Magic	Air Aero Choke - Status ailment Aeroga Aero II Aeroga II Tornado - Ancient Magic Aero III Anemohelix (Scholar only) Aeroga III Aero IV Tornado II - Ancient Magic
Fire Fire Burn - Status ailment Firaga Fire II Firaga II Flare - Ancient Magic Fire III Pyrohelix (Scholar only) Firaga III Fire IV Flare II - Ancient Magic	Ice Blizzard Frost - Status ailment Blizzaga Blizzard II Freeze - Ancient Magic Blizzaga II Blizzard III Cryohelix (Scholar only) Blizzaga III Blizzard IV Freeze II - Ancient Magic	Lightning Shock - Status ailment Thunder Thundaga Thunder II Burst - Ancient Magic Thundaga II Thunder III Ionohelix (Scholar only) Thundaga III Thunder IV Burst II - Ancient Magic

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