Template talk:MagArtes

Sorting the spells
Well, I've gone through every game and character and added each spell to this list, so this should have all spells that have been used by playable characters. I tried to sort them generally in order of rank, but it's hard to compare the spells that have appeared in only one game (things like Blazing Hearts or Inverno or Atlas).

I decided to go back to the sort-by-element format that Zolo had when he created the template, but since there are a lot of spells that have multiple elements, I decided to add them to each category they belong to. So the "Light" category has thunder/water/wind/holy spells, and all of the spells in the "Thunder" category are part of the "Wind" category too. Big Bang has appeared as a light/fire/non-elemental spell, Thunder Blade has appeared as a thunder/wind/fire+wind spell, and so on.

Big Bang, Indignation, and Sacred Shine are all normal spells for some characters, so there are no "mystic artes" in this list. I also left out all of Max's artes - even though they do require "casting time", they aren't really spells in my opinion. (And besides, he can use Canceller to combo his artes together without cast time.)

If anyone thinks the alphabetical listing is easier to use after all, go ahead and revert my edit. Another option could be to make separate spell templates for each game, so we can list everything by their own elemental systems.

Mayu Miyuki 02:51, 15 February 2009 (UTC)